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ASTRONOMICAL SAMMELBAND, containing 10 printed editions, all rare, and 5 manuscripts, assembled in the first half of the 16th century, apparently in Bohemia, all pertaining to astronomy, medicine and science. Its contemporary compiler, as well as early subsequent owners, show themselves to have been keen students of scinece. The printed texts are extensively annotated and supplements by manuscript tracts on astronomy, often summarising or commenting on the printed editions with which they are bound. Most of the works included are known to survive in a few copies only, many of which are not represented in major national, scientific, or medical institutions. 4°. Contemporary blindstamped Bohemian or German pigskin over wooden boards. Provenance : annotations in several hands, one manuscript naming Wolfgang Schindler, of Elnbogen, Bohemia. THE PRINTED WORKS CONTAINED ARE: ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C.). Meteorologica , paraphrase by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples. Nuremberg: Fredericus Peypus, 11 November 1512. Woodcut of the heavens, 7 woodcut text illustrations. Not in Adams, NUC, etc. ALLIACO, Petrus de (1350-1425?). Tractatus super libros metheorum . Leipzig: Jacobus Thanner, 16 January 1506. SECOND EDITION. BLSTC German , p.21. JACOBI, Johannes (d.1384). Regimen contra pestilentiam et Regimen sanitatis per circulum anni . [Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee, c.1500]. Woodcut of Christ. Attributed in the text to Benedictus Kamisius/Kanuti, the author is probably the 14th-century Johannes Jacobi (Jean Jasme), physician to Pope Urban V and professor of medicine at Montpellier. GW(Nachtr) 194; Polain(B) 4467; Klebs 245.19; Schreiber 4433; cf. Stillwell Awakening , 493-494 for other editions; Goff J-11. ISTC on-line lists only 6 copies. SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus. Hexametri precepta medicine continentes . Leipzig: Valentinus Schumann (Dammander), 1515. Woodcut title border. BLSTC German, p.810. GALENUS (131-c.200). De differentiis febrium , translated by Lorenzo Laurenziano. Paris: Henri Estienne, 20 December 1512. Woodcut of Galen. FIRST EDITION OF LAURENZIANO'S TRANSLATION. Renouard, Estienne p.10; BLSTC French p.194. ARNOLDUS DE VILLA NOVA (c.1235-1311). De vinis . [Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, after 1500?]. Second Latin edition. GW 2536; Klebs 102.2; Simon, Bacchica cites Paris, c.1500, edition; Goff A-1079. SECOND LATIN EDITION. For an English translation and fascimile of the first German edition, see Sigerist, The earliest printed book on wine , 1943. RARE; ISTC on-line lists 6 copies only. JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. 1200-1250). Sphaera mundi . [Leipzig]: Martin Landsberg, [1494]. Woodcut map, and 28 woodcuts in the text. HC *14117; Klebs 874.20; Schreiber 4389; Goff J-413. ISTC on-line lists 7 copies. PETRUS CRACOVIENSIS. Computus novus totius fere astronomiae fundamentum pucherrimum continens . Leipzig: Martin of Würzburg, 1507. LEFÈVRE D'ETAPLES, Jacques (1455-1536). Utilissima introductio in libros De Anima Aristotelis . Leipzig: Jakob Thanner, 1506. Woodcut printer's device at end. THE MANUSCRIPTS TRACTS ARE: Manuscript in Latin, on medicine, 10 pages . Manuscript in Latin, 'Questio ... preparatoria ad disputc[i]o[nem] de quolibet michi assignata per v[e]n[erabi]lem viru[m] d[omin]um Vuolffgangum Schindler ... m[a]g[istr[um] Bacch[alaureatu]m sanc[te] theo[logie]', [early 16th Century] an investigation of a proposition on the transmission of perfectibility from the prime mover through the created order, and on the possibility of perfect felicity for mankind, 41½ pages . The investigation is in three parts, 'de perfectione primi et divini', 'de intelligentiis' and 'de corporibus eternis et de hominis in hac vita felictitate'. A reference in the text identifies Vuolffgang Schindler as 'Cubitensis' (? from 'Cubitus', i.e. Elnbogen, W. Bohemia). Manuscript in Latin, 'Tractatus de sphera', [early 16th Century], an introductory summary of the printed Tractatus of Johannes de Sacro Bosco which follows, 9 pages in two columns