Introductorium Compendiosum In Tractatum Spere Materialis Magistri Joannis De Sacrobusto Quem

by Astronomy Johann Von Glogau Glogow

$45,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION of Johann of Głogów’s commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco. Illustrated with a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on the verso of the title page and another large woodcut on B1 recto, showing the spheres of Earth, the elemental zones, the spheres of the planets, and above them, the zodiac. This diagram of Creation is overseen by Christ as Pantocrator flanked by saints. Other, smaller diagrams including one

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