Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598 Plato Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598
Published / Created:
1578
Call Number:
2005 Folio 116
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Platonis opera. and Works. 1578
Description:
Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat., First four words of title transliterated from the Greek., Greek and Latin in parallel columns., Printer's mark on t.-p. of v.1., and Vols. 2 and 3 have half-title only.
BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Binding of stamped calf on wooden boards from between 1482 and 1492. Originally the volume had 5 brass bosses on each board, 2 are now wanting from the front board. Remnants of brass clasps., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Presentation inscription: Hic liber est mei Jeronimj Monetarii de Feltkirchen, arciu[m] ast medicinae doctoris, quem mihi dono dedit Bernardus Walther, Ciuis Nure[n]berge, sua etate in mathematica peritissim[us], anno salut[is] 1492 in dieb[us] Julii., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: With: Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1474. Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Vniversis bonarum artium studiosis Ioannes de Monteregio .S.D.P. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1475., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r)., Translated from Arabic by Adelard of Bath; edited by Campano da Novara. While books I-XIII are Euclid's (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v.3, p. 519), Book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. by Hypsicles and book XV the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th century. For a discussion by B.L. van der Waerden of Euclid's sources see Enc. Brit., 15th ed., Micro. IV, p 589., With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt., and Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142, Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate, Brandenburg, Hilprand,--1442-1514--Presentation inscription to Reichskartause Buxheim, Campano, da Novara, d. 1296, Hypsicles, of Alexandria, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Presentation inscription from B. Walther, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, Reichskartause Buxheim Presentation inscription from Hilprand Brandenburg, and Walther, Bernhard,--1430-1504--Presention inscription to H. Münzer
Subject (Topic):
Geometry--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, and Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800
Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436?-1517 López de Zuñiga, Diego, 16th century
Published / Created:
1514-17.
Call Number:
MLa191 +514
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bible. Polyglot. 1514-17. In Academia complutensi.
Description:
For full description of this work, see British and foreign Bible Society, Historical ctalogue, v. 2, no. 1412., Initials; tail-pieces., The first polyglot Bible, edited by eminent scholars, headed by Diego López de Zuñiga, and printed, in an edition of 600 copies, at the expense of Cardinal Ximénez., Titles, with Cardinal Ximénez' coat of arms, are within woodcut borders., Vol. 1 (with title: Vetus Testamentu[m] multiplici lingua nu[n]c primo impressum) and v. 2-4 (Secu[n]da[quarta] pars Veteris Testamenti) have colophon (v. 4) dated, 10 July 1517., and Vol. 1 has Hebrew, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Chaldaic text at foot of page.
Publisher:
Industria Arnaldi Guillelmi de Brocario in Academia complutensi]