| Author | Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?
|
| Title | Imago mundi, by Petrus de Aliaco (Pierre d'Ailly) with annotations by Christopher Columbus.
|
| Published | Boston, Massachusetts historical society, 1927.
|
| Description | 2 p. ℓ., facsim. : 171 ℓ. diagrs. 35 cm.
|
| General Note | "Of this photostat reproduction twenty-two copies were made."
"The original of the volume now reproduced by photostat is in the Biblioteca Colombina, at Seville, Spain. The edition is without date or colophon, but is assigned to Johannes of Westphalia, who printed at Louvain from c. 1474 to 1496. -- Note, signed: Worthington C. Ford.
Facsimile includes 2 fly-leaves, the first with inscription "Washington Irving. Author of the history of Christopher Columbus": the second with manuscript note from Las Casas, Hist. de las Indias, lib. 1, cap. 11.
With manuscript annotations, tables an diagrams.
|
| Cit./Ref. Note | References: Campbell, Ann. de la typog. néerlandaise au XVe S. 143.
|
| Subjects | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Calendar.
Cosmography.
Geography.
Incunabula -- Facsimiles.
|
| Other Authors | Gerson, Joannes, 1363-1420.
Columbus, Christopher.
|
| Organizations | Massachusetts Historical Society.
|
| LC Card Number | 31-2016 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: G 94 A293 Vault Oversize
MQ34796: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 27649] |
|