Bonatus, GuidoDecem tractatus astronomiae (ed. Johannes Angeli).
Analysis of content:
[*1v] Canter, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Müller [Regiomontanus]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoties et quam multis in rebus . . .’ Letter dated Augsburg, 28 May [1491].
[*1v] Canter, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Müller. ‘Carmina . . . super indice nuper huic operi addito'.’ Incipit: ‘Que fuerat quondam Guidonis ceca Bonati'; 4 elegiac distichs.
[*2r] Bonatus, Guido: ‘In decem tractatus astronomie tabula breuis titulorum omnium capitulorum secundum ordinem totius libri'.’
a1r Bonatus, Guido: Decem tractatus astronomiae. Edited by Johannes Angeli. Incipit: ‘In nomine domini amen. Incipit liber introductorius ad iudicia stellarum . . .’
EE7v [Colophon with acknowledgement of Johannes Angeli.]
Imprint:
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 26 Mar. 1491. 4°.
Collation:
[*14] a–z A–Z AA–EE8. Gathering [*] is numbered, but not signed. 163 woodcuts and 22 woodcut diagrams; woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00845000
GW 4643;
HC *3461;
Goff B‑845;
BMC II 384;
Pr 1891;
BSB‑Ink B‑652; Sack, Freiburg, 737; Schramm XXIII p. 25; Schreiber V 3519; Sheppard 1337-8.
LCN: 13961003
Copies:
B-416(1)
First copy
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; one clasp lost. On both covers fillets form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided by fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In the compartments a six-petalled flower, a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis and a plait-work stamp; in the frame, a palm-leaf stamp and a stamp with a tendril supporting two flowers.
Size: 225 × 170 × 105 mm.
Size of leaf: 213 × 156 mm.
Early marginal notes in ink and in red.
Woodcut initials painted in several colours. Red capital strokes.
Provenance: Irsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Maria; inscription on [*1r] ‘Maioris Vrsinensis Bibliothecæ'.
Augsburg, Bavaria, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek; stamp and duplicate stamp; old shelfmark ‘4° Ink. 393' on spine.
Acquired in 1960 by exchange from the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg, the exchange value being DM 300; see ‘Bodley's American Friends', BLR 6,6 (1961), 643.
SHELFMARK: Don. e.549.
B-416(2)
Second copy
Wanting gathering [*] and leaf EE8 with the printer's device.
Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, remains of two clasps. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the lower cover. Remains of a title-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form a double frame. In the inner rectangle, a crocketed cresting roll; in the outer frame, two different floral rolls.
Size: 227 × 165 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 154 mm.
Provenance: Inscription on a1r ‘Ex parte Erhardi Radolt de Augusta. Anno 1491'.
Old shelfmark ‘C.III.5'.
Augsburg, Stadtbibliothek; woodcut book-plate on front pastedown (Warnecke 69-71), painted in red, yellow, and green; perhaps designed by Christoph Amberger, c.1540-1543; see Albert Haemmerle, Die Buchzeichen der freien Reichsstadt Augsburg (n. pl., n. d.), nos i–viii.
Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; old shelfmark ‘Inc. 822m’ and ‘Dpl' on endleaf.
Purchased for £4. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 14.
FORMER SHELFMARK: 30 d.4.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G5.1491.2.
