RARE CALENDAR REFORM. PAULUS DE MIDDELBURGO. Paulina de recta Paschae celebratione: et de die passionis domini nostri Iesu Christi. Forosempronii (Octavianum Petrutium [Ottaviano Petrucci of Fossombrone]) April 1513. In two parts. Folio (about 300x200 mms). (396) ll. Leaf b5 probably supplied from another copy. With beautiful metal-cut borders and initials, probably by Francesco Grisso. Printer's device on last page. On leaf FF4 there is a reference to Columbus and the discovery of America. Somewhat later vellum binding, partly worn and soiled. Manuscript title on upper edges. Title and verso of title with spots, leaf a2 (with border) with some spotting, partly with dampstains mostly to margins and mostly to the last quarter of the volume, some foxing. Photo. First edition of this work on the reform of the calendar, and first non-musical work to be printed in Fossombrone. Paulus de Middelburgo (c. 1455-1534), Flemish scientist and later bishop of Fossombrone (1594) wrote important works on reforming the calendar and this is regarded to be his principal work. He presented the work at the fifth Lateran council (1512-17) for the consideration of the calendar reform. He was against bringing the equinox back to 21 March, and opposed the idea of abandoning the lunar cycle or putting Easter on a fixed Sunday of the year. He proposed, however, a change in the cycle by reducing the seven embolismic months to five. (Catholic Encyclopedia.) The printer Petrucci was famous for his beautiful musical prints which he did when working in Venice. The metal-cuts are possibly by Francesco Grisso, friend of Aldus Manutius and designer of the Aldine Italic and Greek types. Nice copy of this early treatise. Very rare.
RARE CALENDAR REFORM. PAULUS DE MIDDELBURGO. Paulina de recta Paschae celebratione: et de die passionis domini nostri Iesu Christi. Forosempronii (Octavianum Petrutium [Ottaviano Petrucci of Fossombrone]) April 1513. In two parts. Folio (about 300x200 mms). (396) ll. Leaf b5 probably supplied from another copy. With beautiful metal-cut borders and initials, probably by Francesco Grisso. Printer's device on last page. On leaf FF4 there is a reference to Columbus and the discovery of America. Somewhat later vellum binding, partly worn and soiled. Manuscript title on upper edges. Title and verso of title with spots, leaf a2 (with border) with some spotting, partly with dampstains mostly to margins and mostly to the last quarter of the volume, some foxing. Photo. First edition of this work on the reform of the calendar, and first non-musical work to be printed in Fossombrone. Paulus de Middelburgo (c. 1455-1534), Flemish scientist and later bishop of Fossombrone (1594) wrote important works on reforming the calendar and this is regarded to be his principal work. He presented the work at the fifth Lateran council (1512-17) for the consideration of the calendar reform. He was against bringing the equinox back to 21 March, and opposed the idea of abandoning the lunar cycle or putting Easter on a fixed Sunday of the year. He proposed, however, a change in the cycle by reducing the seven embolismic months to five. (Catholic Encyclopedia.) The printer Petrucci was famous for his beautiful musical prints which he did when working in Venice. The metal-cuts are possibly by Francesco Grisso, friend of Aldus Manutius and designer of the Aldine Italic and Greek types. Nice copy of this early treatise. Very rare.
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