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ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY
Johannes LAET DE BORCHLOEN
Astrologer, lived about 1477.
4 Prognosticationes de anno 1491. Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu (1490).
4to. Goth. letter, 37 lines, 8 unn. leaves with sign. With a horos-
cope on the title, the nice three-parted printer’s device of
Leeu at the end and a small initial on 1. 2. Frs. 1500.“
Not in Hain, Reichling, Proctor and Holtrop. Campbell 1078, who describes only
a fragment. Copinger 3567 who quotes the same copy as Campbell. Cf. G. Hellmann,
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Meteorologie II, p. 215.
THE ONLY COMPLETE COPY KNOWN. Campbell and Copinger know only
the fragment in the Royal Library at Brussels.
Very interesting prophecies for the year 149L On the title there is the
horoscope of the year showing Mars as “dominus anni”. Then follows the dedication
to Johannes de Egmonda, Comes de Beer. After the dedication are the prophecies for
the whole year, the seasons and the single months containing meteorological in-
formations. Then follow prophecies on harvest and gathering of fruit. Of special
interest are the prophecies on d i s e a s e s (p. 8) which shall appear in the following year.
Furtheron the author gives interesting prophecies for several countries and towns, as
England, Brabant, Louvain, Bruxelles, Antverp, Mechlin, Amsterdam, etc.
This very curious product of Ger. Leeu is printed with his types 5 and 8.
The state of preservation of the above copy is not the best, the leaves 1, 2, 5
and 6 are wormed with loss of a few letters and in the blank margins of the other
leaves there are also a few wormholes (without loss of text), but in the whole this
copy is quite perfect and the margins are partly uncut.
We do not remember that another copy of this edition of prophecies
ever has been on the market.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
Johannes LAET DE BORCHLOEN
Astrologer, lived about 1477.
4 Prognosticationes de anno 1491. Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu (1490).
4to. Goth. letter, 37 lines, 8 unn. leaves with sign. With a horos-
cope on the title, the nice three-parted printer’s device of
Leeu at the end and a small initial on 1. 2. Frs. 1500.“
Not in Hain, Reichling, Proctor and Holtrop. Campbell 1078, who describes only
a fragment. Copinger 3567 who quotes the same copy as Campbell. Cf. G. Hellmann,
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Meteorologie II, p. 215.
THE ONLY COMPLETE COPY KNOWN. Campbell and Copinger know only
the fragment in the Royal Library at Brussels.
Very interesting prophecies for the year 149L On the title there is the
horoscope of the year showing Mars as “dominus anni”. Then follows the dedication
to Johannes de Egmonda, Comes de Beer. After the dedication are the prophecies for
the whole year, the seasons and the single months containing meteorological in-
formations. Then follow prophecies on harvest and gathering of fruit. Of special
interest are the prophecies on d i s e a s e s (p. 8) which shall appear in the following year.
Furtheron the author gives interesting prophecies for several countries and towns, as
England, Brabant, Louvain, Bruxelles, Antverp, Mechlin, Amsterdam, etc.
This very curious product of Ger. Leeu is printed with his types 5 and 8.
The state of preservation of the above copy is not the best, the leaves 1, 2, 5
and 6 are wormed with loss of a few letters and in the blank margins of the other
leaves there are also a few wormholes (without loss of text), but in the whole this
copy is quite perfect and the margins are partly uncut.
We do not remember that another copy of this edition of prophecies
ever has been on the market.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
