Venice · 1476 · Erhard Ratdolt

Kalendarium

Regiomontanus

Hand-coloured eclipse diagrams — Woodcut lunar and solar eclipse diagrams, each disc hand-coloured in yellow and grey to show the obscured portion, tabulated by year and duration (leaf 00034).

The "Instrumentum horarum inaequalium" quadrant for reading unequal hours, with its movable thread still attached to the leaf (leaf 00041).

Conjunction and opposition table in red and black — Lunar conjunction and opposition table for 1475-1513, set in Ratdolt's characteristic two-colour red-and-black printing (leaf 00010).

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Carries the first true printed title page: name, place and date set in red and black inside a carved-relief Renaissance woodcut border of floral pilasters echoing the Lombardi marbles. Crisp volvelle and eclipse diagrams complete one of the incunable age's most influential designs. Printed by the Maler–Ratdolt–Löslein partnership.

Details

Title: Kalendarium
Author: Regiomontanus
Printer: Erhard Ratdolt
Place: Venice
Year: 1476
Format: 4°
Language: Latin
Theme: design, diagrams

Facsimiles

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Images

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, 4 Inc.c.a. 85 m — Public Domain Mark 1.0

References

ISTC ir00093000