Ioha[n]nis Pithsani archiep[iscop]i Canthuariensis, ordinis fratrum mino[rum] liber De oculo morali foeliciter incipit.

Ioha[n]nis Pithsani archiep[iscop]i Canthuariensis, ordinis fratrum mino[rum] liber De oculo morali foeliciter incipit.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Peter, of Limoges, -1306, author.
Uniform title:	De oculo morali.
Imprint:	[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [not after August 1476]
Description:	[61] leaves ; 29 cm (folio)
Language:	Latin
Subject:	Vision -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800. Vision -- Early works to 1800. Eye -- Early works to 1800. Optics -- Early works to 1800. Eye. Optics. Vision. Vision -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Incunabula -- Germany -- Augsburg -- 1476. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy with tabula bound at beginning; it is possible that the tabula bound in the University of Chicago Library's copy is from the later, 1477 edition. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2788751

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Farinator, Matthias, active 1477, editor. Peckham, John, -1292, attributed name. Sorg, Anton, active 15th century, printer.
Provenance:	Several leaves have evidence of marginal annotations that have been erased or washed away. Binding: Vellum over boards; evidence of index tab on leaf [3] of tabula.
Notes:	Title from incipit, leaf [10] recto. "The Tractatus de oculo morali ascribed to Peckham in the princeps (Augsburg, s.a. 1475?) is apocryphal. It has also been ascribed to Roger Grosseteste; but the real author was Peter of Limoges"--Sarton, G.A.L. Introduction to the history of science, volume 2, page 1029. Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog assigns printing to the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra using Sorg's type. Tabula incipit, leaf [2] recto: Ad laudem et gloriam saluatoris nostru[m] d[omi]ni ih[es]u [christi] eiusq[ue] intemerate matris perpetue v[ir]ginis Marie honore[m] ... Nec non in maiorem fructum omnium in hoc morali oc[u]lo p[ro]ficere volentiu[m] frater Mathias de Wienna ... Explicit: Tractatus (Iohannis Pithsani archiep[iscop]i Cantuariensis) de oculo morali finit feliciter. De oculo, final line of explicit reads: ariensis) de oculo morali finit feliciter; another edition exists with final line of explicit: tuariensis) de oculo morali finit feliciter. Tabula, leaf [2] recto, last line begins: Aque comp[er]atur maria v[ir]g[in]o; another edition exists with leaf [2] recto, last line beginning: Aquile assimilantur ... Signatures: [1⁸ 2-5¹⁰·⁸ 6¹⁰ 7⁶ 8⁸(-8₂)]; unsigned. Tabula, 38-39 lines; text, 40 lines; initials. Leaves [1] and [9] blank. Includes index. Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ij00390000 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M27451 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *9426 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry J-390 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 343 (IB. 5847) Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 1660 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry P-356 Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry J-174 Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library, entry 1231 Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue des incunables, J-256

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