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1515 · C510 — <p>Venice: Jacobus Pentius for Melchior Sessa and Petrus de Ravanis 15 July 1520 4to 210 x 150mm Full Contemporary Calf Gilt Device within gilt frame with ornate gilt cornerpieces gilt border on upper and lower covers rebacked replacing original spine Large woodcut of an astronomer and Sessa's device on title many woodcuts illustrating signs of the zodiac gods of antiquity celestial spheres and astrological predictions woodcut initials.<br /><br />A Fine Copy of the Second edition of the Compilatio by the 13th-century astronomer Leopold of Austria. Primarily a work of astrology the sixth book concerns meteorology both from a theoretical and a practical point of view and thus includes for example folkloric methods of weather prediction.</p><p>Although virtually nothing is known of the author the work was influential in the late Middle Ages being cited by the great astronomer Pierre d'Ailly and admired by Regiomontanus who proposed to edit an edition of the work.</p><p><em> Adams L-516</em>; <em>BLSTC Italian assigning it to Pencio p.375 718.f.8; Sander 3948; Essling 2081; Houzeau and Lancaster 4783.</em></p> Melchior Sessa and Petrus de Ravanis