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Nicolai Copernici Torinensis : De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium, libri vi. (SC13364C)

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Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
Collection: Special Collections
Classmark: SC13364C
Title: Nicolai Copernici Torinensis : De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium, libri vi.
Publication: Norimbergæ, : Apud Ioh. Petreium,, Anno M. D. XLIII.. [1543]
Alternative Title(s): De reuolutionibus orbium cœlestium, libri vi; De revolvtionibvs orbivm cœlestium, libri vi; Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium colestium inscribuntur.
Subject(s): Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Solar system -- Early works to 1800.
Author(s): Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Printer(s): Petreius, Johannes, 1497-1550
Origin Place: Germany Nuremberg.
Date of Creation: 1543
Language(s): Latin
Former Owner(s): Freind, Nathaniel, active 1662-1687; Wilde, Henry, 1833-1919
Associated Person(s): Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552
Note(s):
Signatures: pi⁶, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, Aa-Cc⁴.
Colophon reads: Norimbergæ apud Ioh. Petreium, anno M. D. XLIII.
Prefatory address to the reader (Ad lectorem) by Andreas Osiander.
Some copies report a duplicate title with list of errata on the verso and some copies report an errata leaf printed separately and later inserted.
Leaf 52 misnumbered 49.
Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium colestium inscribuntur. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mulerii.
Extent: [6]. 196 leaves, tables, diagrams, 28 cm. (fol.) Leaf height: 292 mm, width: 205 mm.
Format: Codex
Condition:
Neither of the errata leaves are present.
Binding:
Sixteenth-century full German calf; tooled in blind to a panel design; remains of a pair of metal clasps; four raised bands to spine.
Decoration:
Woodcut initials.
Additions:
Heavily annotated in Latin in an early hand, especially with mathematical calculations and some diagrams.
Provenance:
MS ownership inscription at head of title-page recto: Na: Freind / 1664 [possibly Nathaniel Freind, schoolmaster of Westerleigh Endowed School, Gloucestershire, 1662-1687].
Bookplate on front paste-down: The University of Manchester. Presented by Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S.
Former shelfmark: 521 / C47 / Q.
Bibliography:
Recorded in University of Manchester Library Search
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, C2602
Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum, p. 221
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), ZV 9157

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Information about this document

Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
Collection: Special Collections
Classmark: SC13364C
Title: Nicolai Copernici Torinensis : De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium, libri vi.
Publication: Norimbergæ, : Apud Ioh. Petreium,, Anno M. D. XLIII.. [1543]
Alternative Title(s): De reuolutionibus orbium cœlestium, libri vi; De revolvtionibvs orbivm cœlestium, libri vi; Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium colestium inscribuntur.
Subject(s): Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Solar system -- Early works to 1800.
Author(s): Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Printer(s): Petreius, Johannes, 1497-1550
Origin Place: Germany Nuremberg.
Date of Creation: 1543
Language(s): Latin
Former Owner(s): Freind, Nathaniel, active 1662-1687; Wilde, Henry, 1833-1919
Associated Person(s): Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552
Note(s):
Signatures: pi⁶, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, Aa-Cc⁴.
Colophon reads: Norimbergæ apud Ioh. Petreium, anno M. D. XLIII.
Prefatory address to the reader (Ad lectorem) by Andreas Osiander.
Some copies report a duplicate title with list of errata on the verso and some copies report an errata leaf printed separately and later inserted.
Leaf 52 misnumbered 49.
Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium colestium inscribuntur. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mulerii.
Extent: [6]. 196 leaves, tables, diagrams, 28 cm. (fol.) Leaf height: 292 mm, width: 205 mm.
Format: Codex
Condition:
Neither of the errata leaves are present.
Binding:
Sixteenth-century full German calf; tooled in blind to a panel design; remains of a pair of metal clasps; four raised bands to spine.
Decoration:
Woodcut initials.
Additions:
Heavily annotated in Latin in an early hand, especially with mathematical calculations and some diagrams.
Provenance:
MS ownership inscription at head of title-page recto: Na: Freind / 1664 [possibly Nathaniel Freind, schoolmaster of Westerleigh Endowed School, Gloucestershire, 1662-1687].
Bookplate on front paste-down: The University of Manchester. Presented by Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S.
Former shelfmark: 521 / C47 / Q.
Bibliography:
Recorded in University of Manchester Library Search
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, C2602
Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum, p. 221
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), ZV 9157