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Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458, Philalethes veritas, [ca. 1474-1475]

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Creator:: Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458
Title(s):: Philalethes veritas.
Published/Created:: [Nuremberg] : [Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus)], [ca. 1474-1475]
Physical Description:: [24] pages : illustration ; 22 cm (4to)
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0102
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1306736
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BEIN Zi 2215: For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Title from caption above illustration leaf [a]2r.
Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.4 x 14.5 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials.
Signatures: [a]¹².
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 54
Incunabula short title catalogue, iv00114000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-114
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15925
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M49528
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 457 (IA.7886)
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5415
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0102: Imperfect: lacks leaf [1]. The woodcut on page [3] is hand-colored. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:: Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:: Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Hand coloring.
Contributors:: Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476, printer.
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Maphaeus Vegius. [Preface addressed to his brother] Eustachius [Vegius], [a1]r-v; woodcut illustration, [a2]r; Maphaeus Vegius. Philalethes, [a2]v-[a12]v.

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