MACROBIUS, AUR. THEOD.
In somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.
Folio (cm 30), 2 parts in one vol., ORIGINAL BROWN BLINDSTAMPED HALF LEATHER OVER WOODEN BOARDS WITH CLASPS AND CATCHES (1 missing). Spine a few defective at top and bottom, manuscript title on paper label, a few wormholes through the text (no particular damage), altogether a very genuine and clean copy. Ff. numb. XXXVI, LXXXVI (= 122, includ. the 1st leaf, orig.. blank), with an HALF PAGE WORLD MAP on recto of part I, fol. XXX, and 7 woodcut diagrams regarding the sphere. Sixth and last incunable edition (1st ed. Venice, 1472). "Includes a geographic concept which is different from that of Ptolemy" (Shirley). "Macrobius' lengthy excurses on Pythagorean number lore, cosmography, world geography, and the harmony of the spheres established him as one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West ... Macrobius and Martianus Capella were largely responsible for preserving Crates of Mallos' theory of an equatorial and meridional ocean dividing the earth into four quarters, each of which was assumed to be inhabited" (DSB IX, 1). Hain-Copinger 10430. Klebs 638.5. Pellechet 7311. Polain 2553. Proctor 5326. BMC V 499. Goff M 13. Sander 4075. For the map: Shirley 13, block 4.
Venezia, Philippus Pincius, 29 October 1500
€ 9.500,00
