Title from a3 verso.

Edited by Victor Pisanus in collaboration with Giorgio Valla; cf. pref

Imprint derived from colophon (p6 recto): Hoc opus impressumq[ue] Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremoneosis. Anno salutis .M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas Nouembres.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, p7, and p8=blank)

Chancery quarto; a2 verso: 38 lines, 159 x 100 mm; types: 84R, 84 Gk; initial spaces with guide letters. Register at end.

Includes 38 woodcut illustrations of constellations in Germanicus Caesar's Phaenomena. The woodcuts are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 294

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 3131

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A143

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia01432000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.93 imperfect: wanting first and final two blank leaves (a1, p7 and p8). Leaf dimensions: 218 x 156 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.93 with bookplate of the BPL Bowditch fund on rear pastedown. Dealer's codes, etc. Early/contemporary marginalia (notes, underlining, and corrections) in red and black. Purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt in March, 1938 (catalog 42, no. 19?).

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.93 bound in later sheepskin.

Rvfvs Festvs Avienivs v.c. Flaviano Myrmeico v.c. svo salvtem (a4r) -- Rufi Festi Auienii v.c. Arati phaenomenon liber (a4r-d3v) -- Eivsdem Orbis terrae felix (Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes) (d3v-f6r) -- Orae maritimae liber primvs felixc(f6r-g8r) -- Fragmentu[m] Arati Phaenomenon per Germanicum [Julium Caesarem] in Latinu[m] conuersi [sic] co[m]mento nuper in Sicilia repertum (h1r-m8r) -- M. Tvlii Ciceronis fragmentvm Arati Phaenomenon (m8v-n6v) -- Qvinti Sereni [Sammonici] Medicinae liber (n7r-p6r) -- Victor Pisanus ad Paulum Pisanum in postremo opere co[m]monitio (p6v)

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