Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati. Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phaenomena Germanico Caesare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phaenomenon fragmentum Marco T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati Phaenomena graece. Theonis Commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phaenomena graece. Procli Diadochi Sphaera graece. Procli eiusdem Sphaera, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete.

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Negro, Pescennio Francesco, 1452-
Theon, of Alexandria, active 364.
Rufus, Sextus.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D.
Linacre, Thomas, 1460-1524.
Proclus, approximately 410-485.
Aratus, Solensis.
Manilius, Marcus.
Firmicus Maternus, Julius.
Language(s)
Latin ; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Published
[Reggio d'Emilia] : Impressum Rhegii Lingobardiae expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis ... ; [1503 and 1499 respectively]
Subjects
Astrology > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
Incunabula > Italy.
Woodcuts > Italy > 16th century.
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Signatures: *⁶, a-g¹⁰, h¹², aa-hh¹⁰, ii-kk⁸; A-D¹⁰, E¹², F⁶, G-M¹⁰, N⁶, N-S¹⁰, T⁸ (E7 & K10 blank).
Apart from diagrams and tables in Firmicus, the ill. are confined to Aratus's Phaenomenon in Latin with Germanicus Caesar's interpretation. They represent the signs of the zodiac and other constellations, and derive from those in Erhardt Ratdolt's Venice editions of Hyginus' Poeticon astronomicon (1st, 1482).
Imprint from colophon following Firmicus Maternus (kk8r), with date: .M.D.III. Cal. Augusti; and from 2nd colophon at end of vol. (T8r), with date: Mense octob. M.ID.
Edited by Franciscus Niger, whose letter to Ippolito d'Este appears at *2r-*4v.
The 1st part (signatures a-kk), comprising Firmicus's Astronomici, is an exact resetting of that portion of Aldus's 1499 ed. (with different woodcut diagrams and tables). The 2nd part (A-T) is as Aldus 1499, with his colophon on T8r.
For the vol. as a whole Hain (14559) and others use the collective title: Scriptores astronomici veteres.
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[752] p. (the last blank) ; ill. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
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