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Translation from Arabic by Adelard of Bath of: Elements.
Text on a2r enclosed on 3 sides by a blackground woodcut border; woodcut capitals & marginal diagrams.
Book XIV is a work of the 2nd cent. by Hypsicles and Book XV, the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th cent.--Cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v. 3, p. 519.
Imprint based on colophon.
Colophon: Opus elementorũ euclidis megarensis in geometriã artẽ jn id quoq[ue] Campani pspicacissimi cõmentationes finiũt. Erhardus ratdolt augustensis impressor solertissimus. venetijs impressit. Anno salutis. M.cccc.lxxxij. octauis. caleñ. juñ. Lector. Vale.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸ (r8 blank).
Goff, E-113.
GW, 9428.
Sander, 2605.
BM 15th cent., V, 285 (IB.20513).
ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ie00113000.
Hain-Copinger, 6693*.
Proctor, 4383.
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1805-1807.
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