tia00008000

Text-inc Id:

tia00008000

Bod-inc Id:

A-003

Headings:

Abiosus, Johannes Dialogus in astrologie defensionem cum vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
2. a1v [Table of contents.]
3. a2r Abiosus, Johannes: [Letter of dedication to] Alphonsus II, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘Decreueram maiestas inuictissima totius orbis decus fulgentissime Rex Alfonse . . .’
4. a2v Abiosus, Johannes: Dialogus in astrologie defensionem cum vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702. Incipit: ‘Quoniam celestis sapientie varii detractores comperiuntur qui eorum sophismatibus atque superstitionibus eam diruere conantur . . .’
5. e5v Palladius Soranus, Domitius: [Verses addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opus haud dubites lector fluxisse sacello | Aonio nutuque dei peragrare superba'; 7 hexameters. Domicius Palladius, Epigrammaton libelli. Venice: Johannes Baptista de Sessa, 1498. Book II, f6v, lines 17 ff.

Imprint:

Venice: Franciscus Lapicida, 20 Oct. 1494. 4°.

Collation:

a–d⁸ e⁶. Woodcut of ‘Astrologia', with the name added in type; four mathematical diagrams.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00008000 GW 6 (Anm.); H *24; Goff A‑8; Pr 5543; BSB‑Ink A‑2; CIBN A‑2; Essling 756; Sander 1; Sheppard 4581. LCN: 14332967

Copies:

1. A-003(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Jacobus Publicius, Artes orandi, epistolandi, memorandi. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 31 Jan. 1485 (P‑537(2));
   3. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct. 1490 (J‑184(1)). Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment over pasteboard. Size: 220 × 160 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 210 × 152 mm. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 123(2).