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<dl><dd>Title from A2r, lines 2-7 (printed red). It is preceded by "Sphaerae mvndi cõpendiũ foeliciter inchoat" (printed black). Imprint from colophon (G6r), which includes the 6-line "Carmina in impressor[um] hui[us] opusculi laudem" in which Santritter is praised for having devised the diagrams and de Sanctis for having cut them</dd>
<dd>"The basis of this edition is that of Ratdolt, 1485 (IA. 20546), the diagrams being mostly close copies, but the order of the two last tracts is inverted and much new matter, with new diagrams, added to the Sacrobusto ... The frontispiece and diagrams were subsequently used by Locatellus in his 1490 edition"--BM</dd>
<dd>Full-page woodcut frontispiece depicting Astronomia, Urania and Ptolemy. Numerous woodcut ill., that on A4v full-page. Some of the cuts in Peurbach's Theoricae are printed in brown, yellow, or red (in addition to black). That on F5r is printed in red, yellow and black; the version in Ratdolt's 1485 ed. was the first ill. printed in 3 colors (see A.H. Mayor, Prints and people, no. 75). Decorated initials printed white on black. Santritter's woodcut device at colophon (IH = Ioannes of Heilbronn)</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A¹⁰ B⁸ BB¹² C⁸ D⁸(D8+1) E-F⁸ G⁶</dd>
<dd>BM 15th cent</dd>
<dd>Hain</dd>
<dd>Essling. Livres à figures vénitiens</dd>
<dd>Binding: modern vellum. Double gold fillets along edges of boards. Red goatskin label on spine, with title: SACROBUSTO / SPHAERA / MUNDI</dd>
<dd>Leaves of Library's copy numbered 2-69 in pencil on rectos at lower right corner, starting with A2r. Pages numbered 1-13 in ink at upper outer corners, A5r-B1r. Three lines of annotation on A1r giving the titles contained in the vol. Other occasional annotations</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Astronomy</div>
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<dl><dd>Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230</dd>
<dd>Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta</dd>
<dd>Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum</dd>
<dd>Santritter, Joannes Lucilius</dd>
<dd>Sanctis, Hieronymus de</dd></dl></div>
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