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Grammatica
Cosmographia
Descrittione della Sicilia
Quadrati fabrica
Descrittione dell'isola di Sicilia
Rime
Vita Christi
Theodosii <et aliorum> sphaerica
Sicanicarum rerum compendium
Martyrologium
Opuscula mathematica
Arithmeticorum libri
Photismi de lumine et umbra
Problemata mechanica
Apollonii conica
Vita Sancti Cononis
Vita Eustochii
Collectio locorum omissorum in libri rerum sicanicarum
Archimedis monumenta
De poetis latinis
De piscibus siculis
De aethneo incendio
Dedica degli Arithmeticorum libri
Epistola ad Ioannem Vegam
Demonstratio algebrae
Geometricarum quaestionum libri
Demonstratio centri in parabola
Lettera a D. Pietro Barresi
Diario di viaggio
Sonetto a Simone Ventimiglia
De poetis latinis liber
La cronaca di Simone da Lentini
Lettera a Francesco Borgia
Super nova stella
Prologi sive sermones
Lettera al cardinale Francisco Quiones
Index lucubrationum

Editions
Introduction
1. Euclides
2. Sphaerica et parva astronomia
3. Arithmetica et algebra
4. Archimedes
5. Conica
6. Musica
7. Optica
8. Cosmographia et astronomica quaedam
9. Mechanicae Artes
10. Epistulae

Instrumenta Maurolyciana
Introduction
1. Catalogues
2. Bibliographica
3. Biographica
4. Iconographica
   
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Maurolico's `first' Editions

Mars 28, 2002


Catalogue by
Rosario Moscheo


Introduction


1  Foreword

The catalogue has been prepared by direct inspection of the several treatises cited. Printed repertories have also been examined; as regards the printing activity in Messina, use has been made of Achille Bonifacio, Gli Annali dei tipografi messinesi del Cinquecento, Vibo Valentia, 1977. In the description of the works the same criteria as those employed in the case of manuscripts have been adopted; a notable exception has been the consistent omission of both incipit and explicit. When referring to leaves, those marked by (*) are unnumbered.

2  Editions

Grammatica 1528
Cosmographia 1543
Descrittione della Sicilia 1545
Quadrati fabrica 1546
Descrittione dell'isola di Sicilia 1546
Rime [s.d.]
Vita Christi 1556
Theodosii <et aliorum> sphaerica 1558
Sicanicarum rerum compendium 1562
Martyrologium 1567
Opuscula mathematica 1575
Arithmeticorum libri 1575
Photismi de lumine et umbra 1611
Problemata mechanica 1613
Apollonii conica 1654
Vita Sancti Cononis 1657
Vita Eustochii 1657
Collectio locorum omissorum
in libri rerum sicanicarum
1679
Archimedis monumenta 1685
De poetis latinis  
De piscibus siculis 1807
De aethneo incendio 1862
Dedica degli Arithmeticorum libri 1875
Epistola ad Ioannem Vegam 1876
Demonstratio algebrae 1876
Geometricarum quaestionum libri 1876
Demonstratio centri in parabola 1876
Lettera a D. Pietro Barresi 1883
Diario di viaggio 1896
Sonetto a Simone Ventimiglia 1896
De poetis latinis liber 1901
La cronaca di Simone da Lentini 1903
Lettera a Francesco Borgia 1949
Super nova stella 1960
Prologi sive sermones 1968
Lettera al cardinale Francisco Quiones 1974
Index lucubrationum 1974

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