Auction 185-186

Lot 827
Leopoldus de Austria, Compilatio

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Auction schedule:

14th Nov. 2017 session starting 3:45 p.m.

Leopoldus de Austria. Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Augsburg, E. Ratdolt, 1489. Kl.-4to (20,5:16 cm). Got. Typ. Mit zahlr. (1 ganzseit., 2 in Farbendruck rot und schwarz) Textholzschnitten u. Holzschnittdiagrammen. 109 nn. Bll. Flex. rot gefärbter Prgt. aus altem Material, Pp.-Schuber.

First edition. With several woodcuts and diagrams in the text, including one fullpage sphere, symbols of the planets etc., one of which full-page and two printed in red and black. Although virtually nothing is known of the author, the work was influential in the late Middle Ages, being cited by the great astronomer, Pierre d'Ailly, and admired by Regiomontanus, who proposed to edit an edition of the work. - Some spotting in places, contemporary neat manuscript annotations in brown and red ink, woodcuts partly coloured. Small marginal defect two second leaf, old number to upper right corner of first five leaves. Red limp vellum from old material, recent slip-case.

Hain 10042; GW M17974; BMC II, 382; Goff L-185; Houzeau-L. 4702; Zinner 364; Stillwell, Awakening I, 71; Honeyman 1987; Kenney 104 Anm. (A. 1520). - Erste Ausgabe, die einzige Inkunabelausgabe. Astronomisch-astrologische Kompilation vermutlich der 2. Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts, deren Verfasserschaft ungeklärt geblieben ist. "Divided into ten treatises, the most interesting being the sixth on meteorology" (Honeyman). Der blattgroße Holzschnitt zeigt eine Armillarsphäre, die übrigen große Planetensymbole, Sphären, Diagramme etc. Eine der Holzschnittfolgen mit Darstellung der 7 Planeten auf Wagen gehört zu den Holzstöcken, die Ratdolt schon in Venedig verwendete. Die 2. Folge der thronenden Planeten stammt dagegen, ebenso wie die Folgen der Tierkreiszeichen wohl von einem deutschen Künstler. - Teils etwas fleckig, zahlreiche Bll. mit zeitgenöss. feinen Anmerkungen in brauner und roter Tinte, die Holzschnitte teilw. ankoloriert. Blatt 2 mit kleinem Blattweiserausriss, erste 5 Bll. mit alter hs. Nummerierung in der rechten oberen Ecke.

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