JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. c.1230)

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09.07.2025 10:30UTC +01:00
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Los 57 | JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. c.1230)
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JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. c.1230)
Sphaera mundi. – GEORG PEUERBACH (1423–1461). Theoricae novae planetarum. – REGIOMONTANUS (1436–1476). Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July 1482.
First Venice edition of the fundamental astronomical text of the Middle Ages, with hand-coloured woodcut diagrams and in a contemporary binding. Sphaera mundi is an introductory guide to the geocentric universe, composed by Sacrobosco c.1220 for use at the nascent University of Paris and based on the newly available works of Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators. It was ‘adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation’ (DSB). After circulating in manuscript form for 250 years, it became the first printed astronomical textbook when it appeared at Ferrara in 1472 and enjoyed wide circulation, going through 25 editions in the incunable period alone. In the present edition, Erhard Ratdolt compiles for the first time a trio of pre-Copernican cornerstones, with Sphaera mundi followed by the astronomical lectures of Georg Peuerbach, and a work by his pupil Regiomontanus. The accompanying woodcut diagrams, likely designed by Johann Lucilius Santritter, appear for the first time in this edition, and would be used for many subsequent editions for their masterful visual explanation of Sacrobosco's concepts. Several diagrams are hand-coloured in green and ochre. HC *14110 = H 14102; BMC V 286; BSB-Ink I-502; Bod-inc J-181; CIBN J-270; Essling 258; GW M14652; Goff J-405; Klebs 874.9; ISTC ij00405000.

Chancery quarto (198 x 150mm). 60 leaves. First text leaf printed in red and black, woodcut frontispiece of armillary sphere and woodcut diagrams and initials throughout, some of the diagrams hand-colored in ochre or green (g browned). Contemporary vellum, old paper label (upper 4/5 of spine lost revealing contemporary manuscript fragments used in binding, a little worn). Provenance: author and title added on a1r in a contemporary Latin hand, along with profuse marginal and interlinear indexing to Sphaera mundi.
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