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Leopold, Duke of Austria (13th century) Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus Austrie Filii de Astrorum Scientia Decem Continentis Tractatus.
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Description: Leopold, Duke of Austria (13th century) Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus Austrie Filii de Astrorum Scientia Decem Continentis Tractatus. Venice: [Jacobus Pentius for] Melchior Sessa and Petrus de Ravanis, 1520.Second edition, quarto, lacking text leaf C1; large woodcut on title, with smaller Sessa device depicting a cat with a rat in its mouth, illustrated with many woodcuts in text, bound in later blind-tooled dark morocco, Renaissance revival, joints rubbed, structurally sound, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.Little is known about the medieval astronomer/astrologer who has left us this work. It is mainly concerned with the zodiac, astrological predictions, the weather, and ancient gods, and was influential and admired by early astronomers.Adams L-516; Sander 3948; Essling 2081; Houzeau and Lancaster 4783.Additional Images Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.