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Venice; 1483.]
ALPHONSUS.
151
On b 2, recto, the cure of the melancholy or ague is said to be effected
by holding the £ lapis lazuli’ in the hand:— £ Et est certum expertum
quod curat melacoliam et quartana/ On tlie reverse of e v, (28 leaves)
is this colophon:
^niprcs^um C0t <]uifcjc$ tjoc
upu^ pcr 0^agi0trn ^ctru
fcic ^cpbdbcrga . iit 3s»dpta
ciuitatc 25mtouic* ♦ 3Cnno fcio
mini 0$. cccc ♦ Irrrii ♦
The reader may eonsult a copious notice of the various rare and early
editions of the works of the distinguished author of this treatise, in the
second volume, p. 16-19, of the recent edition of our Typograpliical
Antiquities. Tlie present is a fair copy : in calf binding.
609. Alphonsus. TABULiE AsTRONOMiciE. Printed
hy Patdolt. Venice. 1483. Quarto.
Editio Princefs. I have examined Maittaire, vol. i. p. 442, Engel,
Bibl. Select. p. 5, Clement, Bibl. Curieuse, &c. vol. i. p. 209, note (17.)
Wolfius, Bibl. Hebraic. pt. i. p. 894, Ereytag’s Aclpar. Litterar. vol. iii.
p. 735-8, and Fossi’s Bibl. Magliabech. vol. i. col. 78; and find Freytag
and Fossi to be as copious and instructive (especially Freytag) as Engel,
Clement, and Wolfius, are brief and unsatisfactory. Neither Seemiller,
(Incunab. Typog. fasc. ii. p. 136,) nor Panzer, (vol. iii. p. 1SS,) refer to
Freytag; who has almost exhausted the anecdotal history of these
tables — which are reported to have been composed by j—imp’ onjn
ntirD-n sR. MOSES ex KIRIATH JEARIM,f] and to have cost the
Castilian Monarch, Alphonsus X. 400,000 ducats in causing them to
be translated into Latin. The preface to this impression is by Alphonsus
himself— £ qui gravioribus regni curis neglectis, cselestium siderum
contemplationi se totum addixit,’ &c. says Fossi. We may be brief
in our description of this elegantly printed volume. The title is as
follows:
* Sic.
t An author, who appears to have escaped Rossi in his Dizionario Storico Degli Autori
Ebrai e delle loro Opcre. Parma, 1802, 8vo, 2 vols,
ALPHONSUS.
151
On b 2, recto, the cure of the melancholy or ague is said to be effected
by holding the £ lapis lazuli’ in the hand:— £ Et est certum expertum
quod curat melacoliam et quartana/ On tlie reverse of e v, (28 leaves)
is this colophon:
^niprcs^um C0t <]uifcjc$ tjoc
upu^ pcr 0^agi0trn ^ctru
fcic ^cpbdbcrga . iit 3s»dpta
ciuitatc 25mtouic* ♦ 3Cnno fcio
mini 0$. cccc ♦ Irrrii ♦
The reader may eonsult a copious notice of the various rare and early
editions of the works of the distinguished author of this treatise, in the
second volume, p. 16-19, of the recent edition of our Typograpliical
Antiquities. Tlie present is a fair copy : in calf binding.
609. Alphonsus. TABULiE AsTRONOMiciE. Printed
hy Patdolt. Venice. 1483. Quarto.
Editio Princefs. I have examined Maittaire, vol. i. p. 442, Engel,
Bibl. Select. p. 5, Clement, Bibl. Curieuse, &c. vol. i. p. 209, note (17.)
Wolfius, Bibl. Hebraic. pt. i. p. 894, Ereytag’s Aclpar. Litterar. vol. iii.
p. 735-8, and Fossi’s Bibl. Magliabech. vol. i. col. 78; and find Freytag
and Fossi to be as copious and instructive (especially Freytag) as Engel,
Clement, and Wolfius, are brief and unsatisfactory. Neither Seemiller,
(Incunab. Typog. fasc. ii. p. 136,) nor Panzer, (vol. iii. p. 1SS,) refer to
Freytag; who has almost exhausted the anecdotal history of these
tables — which are reported to have been composed by j—imp’ onjn
ntirD-n sR. MOSES ex KIRIATH JEARIM,f] and to have cost the
Castilian Monarch, Alphonsus X. 400,000 ducats in causing them to
be translated into Latin. The preface to this impression is by Alphonsus
himself— £ qui gravioribus regni curis neglectis, cselestium siderum
contemplationi se totum addixit,’ &c. says Fossi. We may be brief
in our description of this elegantly printed volume. The title is as
follows:
* Sic.
t An author, who appears to have escaped Rossi in his Dizionario Storico Degli Autori
Ebrai e delle loro Opcre. Parma, 1802, 8vo, 2 vols,