Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: [Elements. Latin] Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m]foelicissime.
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Digital Image File Name:
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6121
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Source Call Number:
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INC E86
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Source Creator:
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Euclid.
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Source Title:
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[Elements. Latin] Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m]foelicissime.
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Source Created or Published:
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1482
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Physical Description:
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sig. b6 verso - b7 recto: Book 3, propositions 8-12
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
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Euclid.
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Uniform Title (Hamnet):
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Elements. Latin
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Title (Hamnet):
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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m]foelicissime.
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Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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[Venice] :
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Publisher (Hamnet):
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Erhardus Ratdolt Augustensis impressor solertissimus Venetijs impressit,
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Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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anno Salutis 1482 octauis Calen[darum] Iun[ij] [25 May]
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Physical Description (Hamnet):
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[276] p. (the last [2] p. blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Annotations (Provenance)
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Illustrated works -- 15th and 16th centuries.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Mathematics, Greek.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Geometry.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Borders (Type evidence)
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), b. 1851, former owner.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Maskell, William, 1814?-1890, former owner.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Campano, da Novara, d. 1296.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Hildesheim (Germany). Capuchins, former owner.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, printer.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Imprint from colophon (leaf r7v), which reads: Opus elementorũ euclidis megarensis in geometriã artẽ. In id quoqz Campani p[er]spicacissimi Cõmentationes finiũt. Erhardus ratdolt Augustensis impressor solertissimus. venetijs impressit. Anno salutis M.cccc.lxxxii. Octauis. Caleñ. Juñ. Lector. Vale.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Signatures: a¹⁰, b-r⁸.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Headlines: book numbers throughout, Liber I-Liber XV.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Liber III, Propositio 18 (leaf c1r) reads: Si circulũ linea recta cõtingat: ...
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Folger copy: leaf r8, blank, lacking; gathering h bound between gatherings e and f; edges have been trimmed, affecting manuscript notes.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Printed initials handcolored in alternate red and blue with a yellow background; paragraph marks in alternate red and blue, and capital strokes in red throughout.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Numerous manuscript notes and diagrams in brown ink in different hands in Latin and Greek, with a few corrections in text, brackets and underlining; sets of notes and verses (some acrostic?) on front flyleaf and leaf a1, one of them with title "De authoribus Geometria".
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Inscription in outer margin of leaf a1v, blurred and partially illegible "ad Vsum [...?] Capucinorum Hildesiensium [?] catalogo [...?] 38o ĩscript. No. 19 F."; pencilled autograph on front flyleaf "S.[or J?] Digby[?]" ; autograph on another front flyleaf of William Maskell, his dates "1833. Bound 1840", and his notes (not located in the Sotheby sale catalogs of his library); bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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19th century calf binding, blind tooled with gauffered and gilt edges.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r).
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Also published on vellum and illuminated. Variations in the incipit, dedication, headlines in the first signature, etc. are recorded, issued with the same colophon.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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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.
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Citations (Hamnet):
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BM 15th cent., V, p. 285, (IB.20513).
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Citations (Hamnet):
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Goff E-113.
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Citations (Hamnet):
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Sander 2605.
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Citations (Hamnet):
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GW 9428.
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Call Number (Hamnet):
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INC E86
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