Written in an Italian cursive hand, with an ornamental initial in red at the beginning of each stanza. There are 62 water-colours drawings, 2 on each leaf, with two stanzas to each leaf. Contents 1. ff. Leonard di Piero Dati, La sfera in Italian [Incomplete.] La sfera is an astronomical-geographical poem written in ottava rima, probably by Leonardo de Piero Dati, friar and humanist, master general of the Dominican order from 1414-26. On this tract see Leonardo Dati, Raffaello Gualterotti, Giovanni Maria Tolosani, Gustavo Camillo Galletti, La sfera libri quattro in ottava rima scritti nel secolo 14. da Leonardo di Stagio Dati ... aggiuntavi La nuova sfera pure in ottava rima di Gio. M. Tolosani da Colle ... e L'America di Raffaello Gualterotti (Molini., 1859)
1 volume 32 ll. (last bl.). folio. 28 1/2 x 21 /2 cm. Levant morocco gilt binding by Rivière. The first 5 leaves and fol. 21 are wanting: most of the leaves from fol. 15 onward are damaged, especially in the lower margins.
Astronomy; Mathematical geography; Fortune-telling; Geography, Ancient; Poetry; Maps
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