Skip to contentProspectiua co[mmun]os d. Ioha[n]nis archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis fratris ordinis mino[rum] d[omini]ci p[er]sau[rum] ad ungue[m] castigata p[er] eximiu[m] artiu[m] [et] medici[n]e ac iuris utriusq[ue] doctore[m] ac mathematicu[m] pertissimu[m] D. Faciu[m] Cardanu[m] Mediolanensem i[n] uenerabili colegio iuris peritorum Mediolani reside[n]tem | Collections | The Huntington
Prospectiua co[mmun]os d. Ioha[n]nis archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis fratris ordinis mino[rum] d[omini]ci p[er]sau[rum] ad ungue[m] castigata p[er] eximiu[m] artiu[m] [et] medici[n]e ac iuris utriusq[ue] doctore[m] ac mathematicu[m] pertissimu[m] D. Faciu[m] Cardanu[m] Mediolanensem i[n] uenerabili colegio iuris peritorum Mediolani reside[n]tem
Purchased from Marlor sale, Dec. 20, 1920. Bookplate on inside of front cover: Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum. Sold at Sotheby's , 7 May 1835, lot 4635 to Thorpe. Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1836; inscription on leaf a1r: Phillipps ms 9028. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 858. Belonged to Oliver R. Barrett.
Dimensions
29 cm mounted to 32 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Cardanus, Facius, (approximately 1444 or 1445-1524,)
Bound at the end of: Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice prima. [Paris: Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84691). -- Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice secunda. [Paris: Georg Wolf for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84692). With additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶ 2i-2k⁸. Huntington Library copy has the de Marnef printer's device on the final page. Binding: stiff vellum.
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