Liber Quadripartiti Ptholomei ...

[2], 152 leaves : 33 cm (fol.) Title from title page on leaf pi1 recto Imprint from colophon on leaf T6 recto, which reads in full: Venetijs per Bonetum Locatellu[m] : impensis nobilis viri Octauiani scoti ciuis Modoetie[n]sis. / M. CCCC. LXXXXIII. i3. kalendas Januarias Edited by Hieronymus Salius Ptolemaeus's Quadripartitum is provided in two Latin translations: 1. from Arabic, attributed to Plato Tiburtinus [already printed in Ratdolt's edition of 1484 (ISTC ip01088000)]; 2. from a Catalan translation [dedicated to Alphonso X, King of Castille and Leon], by Aegidius de Thebaldis. The two Latin translation are printed one after the other; the Latin texts are interspersed with the commentary, from which they are typographically distinguished Signatures: pi² A⁸ B¹⁰ C-S⁸ T⁶. Chancery folio; printed in double columns, A2 verso: 66 lines plus headline, 241 (248) x 165 mm; types: 130G, 92G, 74G, 62G*; woodcut initials, initial spaces with guide letters. Woodcut diagrams Printed running titles and foliation, with errors: leaves 18, 35, 40, 81, 106, 117, 120, 122 and 148 misnumbered 16, 36, 41, 80, 116, 17, 20, 22 and 143 respectively From title page: Liber quadripartiti Ptholomei. -- Centiloquium eiusdem. -- Centiloquium hermetis. -- Eiusdem de stellis beibenijs. -- Centiloquium Bethem. [et] de horis planetar[um] -- Eiusde[m] de significatione triplicitatum ortus. -- Centu[m] quinquaginta p[ro]po[siti]ones Almansoris. -- Zahel de interrogationibus. -- Eiusdem de electionibus. -- Eiusde[m] de te[m]por[um] significationib[us] in iudicijs. -- Messahallach de receptionibus planetaru[m]. -- Eiusdem de interrogationibus. -- Epistola eiusde[m] cu[m] duodecim capitulis. -- Eiusdem De reuolutionibus annor[um] mundi COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.42 FOLIO with woodcut initials hand-colored. Initial spaces rubricated in red or blue, sometimes over colored grounds, some of the red initials with much silvering. Leaf dimensions: 312 x 215 mm. PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.42 FOLIO with the gilt, armorial super-ex-libris of Michael Woodhull on the upper cover. Bookplate of W.F. Pollock. Pencil dealers' inscriptions and codes at front. British Museum "sale duplicate" ink stamp, dated 1787, on pi1 recto. Light marginal annotation, in varying hands. Unidentified dealer's description on lower pastedown. Purchased from Albi Rosenthal in January, 1939. BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.42 FOLIO bound in sprinkled calfskin, rebacked. Gilt, armorial super-ex-libris of Michael Woodhull on the upper cover.