Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico & oras maritimas trimetro iambico Germanici quoq[ue] & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis

Avienus, Rufius Festus, Pisanus, Victor, d. 1549, Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500, Strata, Antonius de, fl. 1479-1492, printer, Avienus, Rufius Festus. Arati Phaenomena, Aratus, Solensis. Phaenomena. Latin, Dionysius, Periegetes. Orbis terrae descriptio. Latin, Avienus, Rufius Festus. Ora maritima, Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D. Phaenomena, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Aratea, Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus. Liber medicinalis · Hoc opus impressum Venetiis : arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis · 1 picture

A Latin edition of ancient astronomical and geographical poems by Avienus, Aratus and others, printed in Venice by Antonius de Strata, a Cremonese printer active in the 1480s, for scholars and students of classical learning. Its single picture is a circular diagram of the heavens, with zodiac figures and constellations ringed around a central sphere, suggesting how early printers rendered cosmic order as a bold radial composition a designer could borrow for emblems or planetary motifs.

Astronomy, Ancient · Planets · Constellations · Geography, Ancient · Medicine, Ancient · Geography · Astronomy · Medicine

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