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

Johannes de Sacrobosco (author), J.L. Santritter (artist) and Hieronymus de Sanctis (artist)

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 Number

    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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