Incunabula leaves from the Burndy Library collection | Collections | The Huntington

Incunabula leaves from the Burndy Library collection | Collections | The Huntington

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Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet Epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati Phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico: & oras maritimas trimetro iambico: germanici quoq[ue], & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta, & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis
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This volume contains the Arati Phaenomena by Avienus (leaves a4r-d3v); Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes (leaves d3v-f6r); Ora maritima by Avienus (leaves f6r-g7r); Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, with a commentary by Avienus (leaves h1r-m8v); Aratea by Cicero (leaves m8v-n6v); and Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus (leaves n7r-p6r). Edited by Victor Pisanus. Cf. dedication, leaf a2. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.4 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column with guide letters. Includes 38 woodcut illustrations in the Germanicus Caesar which are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis. Cf. BM 15th cent. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, g8, p7-8 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1, p7-p8 lacking. Binding: Old English red morocco, in brown morocco solander case. Binder's stamp on case: Bound by Riviere & Son.
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Ars moriendi : quamuis secundu[m] philosophu[m] tercio ethicorum
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