Contenta. Euclidis Megarensis geometricorum eleme[n]torum libri XV. Campani Galli tra[m]salpini in eosdem co[m]mentariorum libri XV. Theonis Alexandrini Bartholamaeo Zamberto Veneto interprete, in tredecim priores, commentariorum libri XIII. Hypsiclis Alexa[n]drini in duos posteriores, eode[m] Bartholamaeo Zamberto Veneto interprete, comme[n]tariorum libri II. Vtcunque noster valuit labor conciliata sunt haec omnia, ad studiosorum non paruam (quam optamus) vtilitatem: id magnifico D. Francisco Briconneto postula[n]te. Si haec beneuole suscipia[n]tur, & tructum adfera[n]t que[m] cupimus: alia eiusde[m] authoris opera prodibu[n]t in luce[m], successum praesta[n]te deo, & adiutoribus (vbivbi ge[n]tiu[m] sint) ad bonaru[m] literaru[m] inititutione[m] probe affectis Gallis, Italia, Germanis, Hispanis, Anglis. quibus omnibus prospera imprecamur: & puram pro dignitate veramq[ue] cognitionis lucem.
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Contenta. Euclidis Megarensis geometricorum eleme[n]torum libri XV. Campani Galli tra[m]salpini in eosdem co[m]mentariorum libri XV. Theonis Alexandrini Bartholamaeo Zamberto Veneto interprete, in tredecim priores, commentariorum libri XIII. Hypsiclis Alexa[n]drini in duos posteriores, eode[m] Bartholamaeo Zamberto Veneto interprete, comme[n]tariorum libri II. Vtcunque noster valuit labor conciliata sunt haec omnia, ad studiosorum non paruam (quam optamus) vtilitatem: id magnifico D. Francisco Briconneto postula[n]te. Si haec beneuole suscipia[n]tur, & tructum adfera[n]t que[m] cupimus: alia eiusde[m] authoris opera prodibu[n]t in luce[m], successum praesta[n]te deo, & adiutoribus (vbivbi ge[n]tiu[m] sint) ad bonaru[m] literaru[m] inititutione[m] probe affectis Gallis, Italia, Germanis, Hispanis, Anglis. quibus omnibus prospera imprecamur: & puram pro dignitate veramq[ue] cognitionis lucem.
Uniform title
Elements. Latin
Created/published
Parisiis : In officina Henri Stephani e regione scholae decretorum, [1516]
Description
261 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Associated name
Euclid. author.
Campano, da Novara, -1296.
Zamberti, Bartolomeo, active 1500.
Hypsicles.
Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.
Campano, da Novara, -1296.
Zamberti, Bartolomeo, active 1500.
Hypsicles.
Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.
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From dealer's description: "The sixth edition of Euclid, the first to be printed north of the Alps, the translation from the Greek of Bartolommeo Zamberti newly revised by Lefèvre d’Etaples, who added the “commentaries” of Campano, Theon, and Hypiscles. Thomas-Stanford is slightly dismissive: ‘The Diagrams are well executed, but the tradition of the book beautiful is not maintained.’ We are more inclined to agree with Schreiber who described it as ‘a typographical masterpiece.’ Ours moreover is a good size, 2 cm taller than Schreiber’s and more than 1 cm wider (his in modern half calf). Thus all the diagrams are safe within generous margins, all except one, and that barely touched. The binder was not quite so kind to John Collins’s notes however, which are in some instances cropped. This volume was Lot 699 in the Macclesfield sale, but failed to sell. The annotations were not mentioned in the catalogue, and were apparently overlooked by viewers since they certainly add interest to what is, apart from the title-page, a very good copy. Without a formal education (orphaned at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to an Oxford bookseller), John Collins (1625-83) became a pivotal figure in the early years of the Royal Society where ‘he had the opportunity to render the services for which he is remembered. For about ten years he served the society as a kind of unofficial secretary for all kinds of mathematical business. (The official secretary, until his death in 1677, was Henry Oldenburg who, in mathematical questions, relied heavily upon Collins’s advice and assistance.) Collins conducted an extensive correspondence with some of the leading mathematicians in Britain and abroad, and he also drafted the mathematical details for Oldenburg’s correspondence with these mathematicians (who included Barrow, Gregory, Huygens, Leibniz, Newton, Pell, Sluse, Tschirnhaus, and Wallis among others); Isaac Barrow called him ‘Mersennus Anglus’. Collins obtained current mathematical news and foreign books for the Royal Society and its fellows, often in exchange for British scientific publications’ (ODNB). Collins’s books were acquired sometime after his death by William Jones, and hence to Shirburn Castle. Collins’s notes appear on 16 pages, mainly in the first book. In four instances he has made corrections to the text (not errata)."
Signatures: a-y⁸ z & ⁶ A-H⁸ I¹⁰ (I¹⁰ blank).
Cribled initials.
Numerous errors in foliation.
Dedication by Iacobvs Faber, dated: Anno M.D. XVI postridie Epiphaniae Domini.
From dealer's description: "The sixth edition of Euclid, the first to be printed north of the Alps, the translation from the Greek of Bartolommeo Zamberti newly revised by Lefèvre d’Etaples, who added the “commentaries” of Campano, Theon, and Hypiscles. Thomas-Stanford is slightly dismissive: ‘The Diagrams are well executed, but the tradition of the book beautiful is not maintained.’ We are more inclined to agree with Schreiber who described it as ‘a typographical masterpiece.’ Ours moreover is a good size, 2 cm taller than Schreiber’s and more than 1 cm wider (his in modern half calf). Thus all the diagrams are safe within generous margins, all except one, and that barely touched. The binder was not quite so kind to John Collins’s notes however, which are in some instances cropped. This volume was Lot 699 in the Macclesfield sale, but failed to sell. The annotations were not mentioned in the catalogue, and were apparently overlooked by viewers since they certainly add interest to what is, apart from the title-page, a very good copy. Without a formal education (orphaned at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to an Oxford bookseller), John Collins (1625-83) became a pivotal figure in the early years of the Royal Society where ‘he had the opportunity to render the services for which he is remembered. For about ten years he served the society as a kind of unofficial secretary for all kinds of mathematical business. (The official secretary, until his death in 1677, was Henry Oldenburg who, in mathematical questions, relied heavily upon Collins’s advice and assistance.) Collins conducted an extensive correspondence with some of the leading mathematicians in Britain and abroad, and he also drafted the mathematical details for Oldenburg’s correspondence with these mathematicians (who included Barrow, Gregory, Huygens, Leibniz, Newton, Pell, Sluse, Tschirnhaus, and Wallis among others); Isaac Barrow called him ‘Mersennus Anglus’. Collins obtained current mathematical news and foreign books for the Royal Society and its fellows, often in exchange for British scientific publications’ (ODNB). Collins’s books were acquired sometime after his death by William Jones, and hence to Shirburn Castle. Collins’s notes appear on 16 pages, mainly in the first book. In four instances he has made corrections to the text (not errata)."
Signatures: a-y⁸ z & ⁶ A-H⁸ I¹⁰ (I¹⁰ blank).
Cribled initials.
Numerous errors in foliation.
Dedication by Iacobvs Faber, dated: Anno M.D. XVI postridie Epiphaniae Domini.
Cited/described in
Schreiber, F. The Estiennes, 26
Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p.18, no. 8
Steck, M. Euclid, III. 13
Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p.18, no. 8
Steck, M. Euclid, III. 13
Place of creation/publication
France.
Item Details
Call number
270114
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "The sixth edition of Euclid, the first to be printed north of the Alps, the translation from the Greek of Bartolommeo Zamberti newly revised by Lefèvre d’Etaples, who added the “commentaries” of Campano, Theon, and Hypiscles. Thomas-Stanford is slightly dismissive: ‘The Diagrams are well executed, but the tradition of the book beautiful is not maintained.’ We are more inclined to agree with Schreiber who described it as ‘a typographical masterpiece.’ Ours moreover is a good size, 2 cm taller than Schreiber’s and more than 1 cm wider (his in modern half calf). Thus all the diagrams are safe within generous margins, all except one, and that barely touched. The binder was not quite so kind to John Collins’s notes however, which are in some instances cropped. This volume was Lot 699 in the Macclesfield sale, but failed to sell. The annotations were not mentioned in the catalogue, and were apparently overlooked by viewers since they certainly add interest to what is, apart from the title-page, a very good copy. Without a formal education (orphaned at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to an Oxford bookseller), John Collins (1625-83) became a pivotal figure in the early years of the Royal Society where ‘he had the opportunity to render the services for which he is remembered. For about ten years he served the society as a kind of unofficial secretary for all kinds of mathematical business. (The official secretary, until his death in 1677, was Henry Oldenburg who, in mathematical questions, relied heavily upon Collins’s advice and assistance.) Collins conducted an extensive correspondence with some of the leading mathematicians in Britain and abroad, and he also drafted the mathematical details for Oldenburg’s correspondence with these mathematicians (who included Barrow, Gregory, Huygens, Leibniz, Newton, Pell, Sluse, Tschirnhaus, and Wallis among others); Isaac Barrow called him ‘Mersennus Anglus’. Collins obtained current mathematical news and foreign books for the Royal Society and its fellows, often in exchange for British scientific publications’ (ODNB). Collins’s books were acquired sometime after his death by William Jones, and hence to Shirburn Castle. Collins’s notes appear on 16 pages, mainly in the first book. In four instances he has made corrections to the text (not errata)." Ordered from Blackwell's Rare Books, D9178, 2018-02-08, Early Printed Books to 1604, item 21. Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment.
Folger accession
270114