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Glogoviensis, Joannes
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Description
- Glogoviensis, Joannes
- Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere materialis magistri Joannis de Sacrobusto. (Krakow: [Jan Haller], 28 April 1506)
- paper, leather
4to (214 x 153mm.), full-page woodcut on verso of title-page, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, early manuscript annotations, contemporary German or Polish half blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with double-headed eagle and floral stamps and a banner lettered "hbenedt", two clasps, some edges uncut
Provenance
Ludovicus Romanus, fine armorial bookplate dated 1575
Literature
Alden & Landis 506/6; Bibliographia Polonica 10; BJ16 G-501, Zinner 867
Catalogue Note
Rare first edition, a crisp copy in a contemporary binding. Glogoviensis (1445-1507) published many works on astronomy, logic and grammar for the use of students. He taught at the University of Krakow, and on that basis is postulated as a possible teacher of Copernicus. This is the first work printed in Poland that mentions the discovery of America, on leaf g2v.
Jan Haller was the most prolific printer in Krakow at this time. He published Copernicus's first published work, a translation of Theophylact in 1509, and printed another edition of Glogoviensis's treatise in 1513.