Drawing on Arabic astronomers: only incunabular edition
Compilatio de astrorum scientia.
4to (215 x 148 mm). 109 (of 110) ff. (a-n8, o6, lacking final blank o6). Gothic letter, 41 lines. With full-page woodcut of Sphaera Mundi on a2r, numerous woodcut astrological and astronomical illustrations and diagrams in text, 2 diagrams partially printed in red, several illustrations partially hand-coloured in red, numerous woodcut white-on-black floriated initials, mostly coloured in a light red wash. 19th-century crushed green morocco, red morocco spine label, plain endpapers. All edges red.
€ 25,000.00
First, and only incunable, edition of Leopold's thirteenth-century "Compilation on the Science of the Stars", an amalgamation of astrology and astronomy largely drawn from Latin translations of Sahl ibn Bishr, Abu Ma’shar, ‘Umar al-Tabari, ‘Ali al-‘Imrani, al-Kindi, and other Arabic astronomers. A number of the fine woodcuts of the constellations appear in several other editions printed by Ratdolt, including his 1485 Hyginus.
Leopold's treatise was reprinted with new woodcuts in Venice in 1520 by Melchior Sessa and Petrus de Ravanis.
From the library of Theodore H. Benttinen, U.S. oceanographer and financier (1948-2023).
Spine and edges faded. Occasional light soiling or dampstaining, chiefly marginal, tiny early repair to fore-edge margin of title-page. Some early marginalia occasionally shaved.
HC 10042*. Goff L-185. GW M17974. BMC II 382 (IA 6679). Houzeau/Lancaster 4702; ISTC il00185000.
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