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SACROBUSTUS.
501
Venice; 1478.]
The reverse is blank. There are catchwords, running titles, and
marginal (printed) notes, or sumiuaries, but no numerals. As this
impression has been frequently deseribed, and as the previous one of
the date of 14S6 is purely supposititious, it only remains to refer the
reader to the numerous authorities cited by Panzer, in vol. iii. p. 239,
240. The present copy has every luxury of condition and size to
recommend it. It is bound in russia, with marble edges to the leaves.
771. Sacrobustus, seu Sacroboscus (Iohannes).
Sph^era Mundi. Printed hy Hailbrun. Venice.
1478. Quarto.
Editio Princeps. * Liber quem sscil. Sacroboseus] De Sphcera
edidit, minutus quidem est: quid tum ? ab universo quaeritur, legitur,
teritur mathematicorum grege’—are the words of the venerable
Leland. De Scriptor. Britan. pt. ii. p. 353. Tanner has reprinted
Leland’s short biography of Sacroboscus, or Halisex—as he calls him—
(‘ a loco natali dictus’) from the Saxon word Haligwalde or Halisex—
* cujus appellationis et emporium apud Brigantes lanicio celeberri-
mum: unde et hunc (continues Leland) conjectuiA ductus, ortum
facile crediderim.’ Bibl. Britan. p. 371, nntes. Tanner has given a list
of a few of the subsequent impressions of this once celebrated, and yet
respeetable, performance. Although we may objeet to La Lande’s
calling this edition ‘ very rare,’ we shall easily agree wilh him in pro-
nouncing it to be ‘elegantly printed.’ Bibliogr. Astronomique, p. 12-13.
The name of Hailbrun is entitled to great respectability; and in this
beautiful production of his press, he has not been surpassed by any
of his contemporaries. The wood-cuts with which the Treatise upon
Planets, by Gerardus Cremonensis, is embellished, are among the
earliest extant relating to the study of astronomy. We shall be brief
but particular in our description, or rather illustration. On the recto
of a, is the title, printed in red, thus :
Iohannis de sacrobusto anglici uiri cla*
rissimi Spera mundi feliciter incipit .
There are ornamental capital initials, and marginal printed titles, or
summaries, throughout the impression. A full page has 25 lines. On
the recto of the second leaf, a 2, is a representation, or cut, of the
501
Venice; 1478.]
The reverse is blank. There are catchwords, running titles, and
marginal (printed) notes, or sumiuaries, but no numerals. As this
impression has been frequently deseribed, and as the previous one of
the date of 14S6 is purely supposititious, it only remains to refer the
reader to the numerous authorities cited by Panzer, in vol. iii. p. 239,
240. The present copy has every luxury of condition and size to
recommend it. It is bound in russia, with marble edges to the leaves.
771. Sacrobustus, seu Sacroboscus (Iohannes).
Sph^era Mundi. Printed hy Hailbrun. Venice.
1478. Quarto.
Editio Princeps. * Liber quem sscil. Sacroboseus] De Sphcera
edidit, minutus quidem est: quid tum ? ab universo quaeritur, legitur,
teritur mathematicorum grege’—are the words of the venerable
Leland. De Scriptor. Britan. pt. ii. p. 353. Tanner has reprinted
Leland’s short biography of Sacroboscus, or Halisex—as he calls him—
(‘ a loco natali dictus’) from the Saxon word Haligwalde or Halisex—
* cujus appellationis et emporium apud Brigantes lanicio celeberri-
mum: unde et hunc (continues Leland) conjectuiA ductus, ortum
facile crediderim.’ Bibl. Britan. p. 371, nntes. Tanner has given a list
of a few of the subsequent impressions of this once celebrated, and yet
respeetable, performance. Although we may objeet to La Lande’s
calling this edition ‘ very rare,’ we shall easily agree wilh him in pro-
nouncing it to be ‘elegantly printed.’ Bibliogr. Astronomique, p. 12-13.
The name of Hailbrun is entitled to great respectability; and in this
beautiful production of his press, he has not been surpassed by any
of his contemporaries. The wood-cuts with which the Treatise upon
Planets, by Gerardus Cremonensis, is embellished, are among the
earliest extant relating to the study of astronomy. We shall be brief
but particular in our description, or rather illustration. On the recto
of a, is the title, printed in red, thus :
Iohannis de sacrobusto anglici uiri cla*
rissimi Spera mundi feliciter incipit .
There are ornamental capital initials, and marginal printed titles, or
summaries, throughout the impression. A full page has 25 lines. On
the recto of the second leaf, a 2, is a representation, or cut, of the