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Prima pars Summe Alberti Magni De quatuor coequeuis vna cum secunda eius que est De homine

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 · Venetijs : Imp[re]ssa impe[n]sis ... Andree Torresani de Asula, arte ... Simonis de Luere · 3 pictures

This is an incunable Latin treatise by Albertus Magnus, printed in Venice in the 1490s by Simon de Luere for the Torresani press, for scholars of natural history and cosmology. The three pictures are a monastic library stamp with a shield and crown, a heraldic bookplate with a lion crest and motto banner, and a yellow-ground armillary sphere held up by a kneeling Atlas, which suggests strong woodcut shapes and printed-emblem framing a designer could borrow.

Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Creation -- Early works to 1800 · Incunabula -- Specimens

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