Habeslector [sic] Iohannis de Sacro Busto Sphere textum

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230, Ciruelo, Pedro, approximately 1470-approximately 1560, Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?, Bromsen, Maury A. fmo RPJCB, Parreño, Alberto. fmo RPJCB · 1515 · Venundantur Parrhisius : A Iohan[n]e Paruo in vico diui Iacobi sub signo Lilii aurei · 6 pictures

This is a 1515 Paris edition of Johannes de Sacrobosco's medieval astronomy textbook, The Sphere, printed for students and scholars with commentary by Pedro Ciruelo and Pierre d'Ailly and sold by Jean Petit. The pictures are small black-line diagrams and woodcuts: a climate-zone circle, dense ruled planetary-motion charts, a plain triangle in a circle, and a printer's emblem with fleur-de-lis and lions. A designer might draw on their clean, schematic line work and the bold, crowded typographic blocks around the figures.

Astronomy · Imprint 1515

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