RINGELBERG, Joachim Fortius (c.1499-c.1536). Opera . With: Compendium de conscribendis versibus. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphius, 1531. 2 works in 1 volume, 8° (160 x 100mm.). Titles with woodcut printer's device, 99 woodcut diagrams including several full-page, figured woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank bb8, occasional old dampstaining, mainly marginal.) Contemporary vellum (slightly soiled, lacking ties). FIRST EDITION of Ringelberg's works, complete with his treatise on arithmetic. The two works are separately signed and paginated, but generally recorded as being bound together. This copy has many contemporary marginal annotations on pp. 77-80. Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg was an itinerant scholar from Antwerp who lectured all over Europe on almost every imaginable subject. This compendium covers all of his encyclopaedic interests, ranging from science, maths and astronomy to Greek grammar and the occult arts (for which the book was placed on the Papal Index in 1559). Mortimer describes this edition of the Opera as "an example of Gryphius's use of small format for excellent scholarly editions of the work of contemporary authors". Mortimer/Harvard French 460; Adams R-560.
RINGELBERG, Joachim Fortius (c.1499-c.1536). Opera . With: Compendium de conscribendis versibus. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphius, 1531. 2 works in 1 volume, 8° (160 x 100mm.). Titles with woodcut printer's device, 99 woodcut diagrams including several full-page, figured woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank bb8, occasional old dampstaining, mainly marginal.) Contemporary vellum (slightly soiled, lacking ties). FIRST EDITION of Ringelberg's works, complete with his treatise on arithmetic. The two works are separately signed and paginated, but generally recorded as being bound together. This copy has many contemporary marginal annotations on pp. 77-80. Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg was an itinerant scholar from Antwerp who lectured all over Europe on almost every imaginable subject. This compendium covers all of his encyclopaedic interests, ranging from science, maths and astronomy to Greek grammar and the occult arts (for which the book was placed on the Papal Index in 1559). Mortimer describes this edition of the Opera as "an example of Gryphius's use of small format for excellent scholarly editions of the work of contemporary authors". Mortimer/Harvard French 460; Adams R-560.
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