PAOLO VENETO, O.S.A. [Paulus Venetus].- ¶ LIBER DE COM | positione mundi. | Excellentissimi viri| Pa

PAOLO VENETO, O.S.A. [Paulus Venetus].- ¶ LIBER DE COM | positione mundi. | Excellentissimi viri| Pauli Veneti Theologi | insignis, Philosophi summi, ac Astronomi | maximi opus aureu[m] de compositione Mu[n]di | quod Astronomie ianua nu[n]cupari po[tes]t; i[n] quo | omnium celestium signorum, segmentoru[m] q[ue] | omnium figuratio & quasi Typus quida[m] per | spicitur nuperrime diligenter recognitum.- Lugduni: impressum Antonii du Ry, Simon Vincentius, 1525.- [18] f.: il.; 25 cm.- E., Paolo Nicoletti (1368-1429), better known as Paolo Veneto, religious of the Order of Saint Augustine, Italian philosopher, theologian and humanist, born in Udine, studied at the University of Oxford and taught at the University of Siena, Perugia, Bologna and Padua. Original edition of a work that, according to some, resulted from the revision and reformulation of another, in the vernacular, by the cosmographer Ristoro d’Arezzo (fl. 1.282), with which it shares, in fact, part of the same title: “Della composizione del mondo...”. The edition, entirely composed in Gothic characters (text in two columns), is illustrated with around 50 astronomical and astrological woodcut figures. At the end of the text, an extensive colophon, which reads: Lugduniq. impressum in edibus honesti viri Antonii du Ry calcographi admodum diligentis Anno a redemptione humana Millesimo quigentesimo vigesimo quinto. Die decimaseptima mensis Novembris (followed by a short recording). On the front of the last sheet (with a blank verso), the mark of Simon Vincent, responsible for editing. Copy slightly cropped, with some small wormholes (not exceeding 20 mm) that sometimes reach the text, in the lower margin of the first four pages; affecting one to three lines, on the following nine leaves; reduced to a few small holes in the remaining sheets. Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (not found in the auction catalogue held in 1940). 20th century binding, full sheepskin, with blind tooling on the covers and spine; small superficial damage.