Author: MANILIUS, M. [SCALIGER, J. ed.]- Plantiniana.- 1600
Title: Astronomicon A Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum. Eiusdem Iosephi Scaligeri Notae, quibus auctoris prisca astrologia explicatur, castigationum caussae redduntur, portentosae transpositiones in eo auctore antiquitus commissae indicantur.
Description: (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorum Raphelengium, Academiae Lugduno Batavae Typographum [expensis Joa. Commelini], 1600. Small in 4to. Volume I [of 2] only. W. small woodcut vignet on printed title. Near contemp? or 18th c. vellum backed brds., spine and edges of covers some rubb., corners some imperf. [a - d4, A - R4.] (XXXII, 131, V (Index) pp.). (Some old underlinings; lower righthand blank margin, a thin vague watersp.; a few spots.). Smitskamp [Formerly Brill], Scaliger coll., cat 595, item 98: 'See Bernays 166 and 280 ... Scaliger used the codex Gemblacensis to correct this edition, but only through the variants listed by Susius. ...': Schweiger, II, 590: Breugelmans, Leiden imprints, p. 67: Adams M 365: DSB vol. XIII, pp. 79 - 80: '... Manilius is known to us only through an incomplete Latin poem on astrology, The Astronomicon Libri V' ... its astrological content, while important because of its antiquity (Manilius is our oldest connected treatise on astrology), is quite rudimentary. ... Book I treats the sphere, zodiacal and other constellations, great circles and comets; book II, the zodiacal signs, their classifications, interrelations, and subdivisions, and the dodecatopus; book III, the 12 astrological places ... The Lot of Fortune, the rising times of the signs at Alexandria, the Lord of the year, and the length of Life; book IV, the decans, the monomoria, and an astrological geography; and book V, the fixed stars that rise simultaneously with points on the ecliptic. ... ': Dibdin, vol. II, 224: 'Of these three editions [....???] , the last, with additional annotations and corrections, as well as with careful collation of an ancient MS. by Scaliger himself, is the preferable one.': Offered is the first volume w. the full text of the poem only! The 'Notae' by Scaliger [=volume 2, (20), 510, (2) pp.] NOT present.

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