Johannes de Sacrobosco

Editions of the 
Tractatus de Sphaera

Sacrobosco Project
Commentvm Electvm Et Praeciosvm Nvperrime Compositvm Svper Tractaetvm [sic] Sphaerae Mvndi.
[Venice, 1494?]

64 leaves; incl. diagrs. illus. 21.5 cm. (4to.)

The date 1494 occurs in the book at fol. 23b: ... finis [s]it i[s]tius capituli & [s]uae expo[s]itionis ... / ... per me magi[s]trum Ga[s]parinum Borro uenetu[m] prio- / rem conuentus Venetiarum in. Mcccclxxxxiiii. die. xix. [s]eptembris ... 

Colophon, fol. 63b: Explicit commentum tractatus [s]phæræ Ioannis de Sacrobu[s]to nuperrime com / po[s]itum per egregium Sacræ Theologiæ doctorem magi[s]trum Ga[s]parinu[m] / Borro Venetum regularis ob[s]eruantiæ Sacri ordinis [s]eruoru[m] Sãctæ Mariæ

The diagrams, except for the printed legends, are the same as those of the edition of the Sacro Bosco text printed by Locatellus for Scotus at Venice in 1490, and are apparently from the blocks cut by Hieronymus de Sanctis for his 1488 edition of the text.
 

Locations: New York Pub. Lib. – Humanities-Rare Bks & Mss – Call # *KB 1494


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