Sphaera Mundi

before 14 November 1485

J.L. Santritter

Artist, German, active 15th century

Hieronymus de Sanctis

Artist, Italian, active 15th century

Johannes de Sacrobosco

Author, English, died 1256

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 62 woodcut illustrations of which 7 are printed in 2 or 3 colors; 12 woodcut initials, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 22.3 x 16 x 1.4 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/16 x 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.63.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Aloisius de Malchiavelli, Bologna (marginalia and his acquisition note beneath the colophon, dated 1488). Harrison D. Horblit. Dr. Jörn Günther, Hamburg; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 33 b.

Bibliography

1964

  • Goff, Frederick R. _Incunabula in American Libraries, a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections._New York, 1964: no. J-406.

2007

  • Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 3, 2007. no. 3.

Inscriptions

margin notations in brown ink throughout; inside upper cover by later hand in graphite: Goff j-406/ 1st color printing; continued by different later hand: i.e. 1st book in which several colored inks were used simultaneously; inside lower cover in graphite: 1-68710 = 58ff / margin of 26 repaired / c.c. 5/79pf

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