De oculo morali / [Translated into Italian by Fra Teofilo Romano].

Venice : [Joannes Rubeus], 21 May, 1496.

64 unnumbered leaves : woodcut title page, illustrations, initials ; (4to)

Leaf [1]r (t.p.): Libro de locchio morale et spirituale vulgare

Brit. Mus. Cat. (xv cent.) V, p. 419 (IA. 23180); Goff J-393; Hain 9805

Translated from Hamman's edition of the Latin original, 1 April, 1496, and with the same cut on leaf [1]r

"The Tractatus de oculo morali ascribed to Peckham in the princeps (Augsburg, s.a. 1475?) is apocryphal. It has also been ascribed to Roger Grosseteste; but the real author was Peter of Limoges"--cf. Sarton, G.A.L. Introduction to the history of science, v. 2, p. 1029

BM Inc v.419

Poynter 438

St J354

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