i + 92 + i

Bound in eighteenth-century vellum over cardboard; 5 raised bands on spine; book block partially separated from binding; dark leather label with tooled, gilded title “GRAMO. TRACT” pasted within the second compartment; red coloring to edges of paper; paper flyleaves and pastedowns; seventeenth or eighteenth-century description of Grannolach’s work on front pastedown in Italian (“Incunabula 1491. L’autore Barcellonese fa credere che questa Edizione possa essere Spagnuola e forse di Barcellona stessa.”), auction mark lot number from Reiss and Sohn in pencil (“Sch. 4422”) on front pastedown, bibliographic information in pencil on front pastedown (“I: GW 11312 II: GW 1958 III MS”), late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century title in cursive script using brown ink on recto side of front pastedown (“Bernardini de Gramolachiis Barchinonensis Artium, et Medicinae Magister, en Nobilissima Arte Astrologiae Tractatus In quo Coniunctiones, et Oppositiones Lune Cuiuslibet mensis in quolibet anno Facilime experiri possunt incipiendo Ab anno Domini Mcccclxxxxi usque ad annum Mcccccl. Deinde additus Liber Qui Compotus inscribitur”), modern manuscript description in cursive hand in pencil on recto side of rear pastedown (“il ms e di 21 (ventiun) carte.”)

Manuscript written in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in one the Catalan speaking regions of the Kingdoms of Aragón based on language, paleography, and watermarks; sixteenth-century handwritten ex libris belonging to an unidentified Discalced Carmelite Convent of Santa Teresa: “Conventus. Sa. Teresie. Carmel: Discal:”, fol. 1r; late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century handwritten ex libris belonging to Lazarus Ferolis (1550?-1600?) above the printer’s mark, “Lazarus Ferolis”, fol. 71v; London, Pickering and Chatto Booksellers; New York, Sotheby’s, 13 December 2000, lot 55; London, Reiss & Sohn, 1 November 2011, Lot 4422; London, Christie's, Sale 5334 13 June 2012, lot 65; Chicago, Les Enluminures, TM 645; purchased by the Malta Study Center with funds from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation and Malta Study Center Endowment, 2015

Imperfect: first incunabulum wanting leaf d10; second incunabulum wanting e6 and e7 with woodcut tables; manuscript wanting 5 leaves at end; fol. 33 damaged by cutting losing two lines of text, fol. 1rv has brown stain damage, fol. 52r ink stain lower margin, fol. 1-13 have small worming damage to lower spine edge, fol. 92 slight worming damaging text; light browning and wear to edges throughout

a-c8 + d10

22 small woodcut moons (19 x 19 mm) at various states of waxing and waning

Watermarks "roue dentée" Briquet 13374 (Grenoble, 1489 and Valence, 1493) and "tête de cerf" similar to Briquet 15542 (Sion, 1452) and Briquet 15544 (Catane, 1488); Gothic Type Haebler classification M18 and M95 (9:100G and 10:74G)

a-e8

Eight large woodcut hands for learning calculations (145 x 105 mm), fol. 38v, 39r, 41v, 42r, 43v, 44r, 54v, 55r; one woodcut calendar with sun and stars (94 x 94 mm), fol. 51v; one circular woodcut calculating table (100 x 100 mm), fol. 58r; one woodcut printer’s mark (48 x 48 mm), fol. 71v

Watermarks "cloche" similar to Briquet 4115 (Lyon, 1515) and "fleur de lis" not found in Briquet, watermarks for manuscript (fol. 72-92) "armoiries deux pals" Briquet 2066 (Palerme, 1473-1476) and "sirène" Briquet 13871 (Verceil and Biella, 1473); Gothic Type Haebler classification M19 and Roman Gft2112 (6:120G and 5:81B)

5-line initial “A” with rubrication and flourishes on fol. 72r; manuscript rubrication of initials and some majuscule letters

fol. 1v, 2v, 35v, 39v, 43r, 45r are blank

David Hook, The Destruction of Jerusalem: Catalan and Castilian Texts (2000); José Chabás Bergón and Antoni Roca i Rosell, "The Early Printing of Astronomy: The Lunari of Bernat de Granollachs," Centaurus 40/2 (1998): 124-134; David Eugene Smith, Le comput manuel de magister Anianus (1928); ISTC ig00340500; GW 11312; ISTC ia00736500; GW 1958

i + 92 + i

Bound in eighteenth-century vellum over cardboard; 5 raised bands on spine; book block partially separated from binding; dark leather label with tooled, gilded title “GRAMO. TRACT” pasted within the second compartment; red coloring to edges of paper; paper flyleaves and pastedowns; seventeenth or eighteenth-century description of Grannolach’s work on front pastedown in Italian (“Incunabula 1491. L’autore Barcellonese fa credere che questa Edizione possa essere Spagnuola e forse di Barcellona stessa.”), auction mark lot number from Reiss and Sohn in pencil (“Sch. 4422”) on front pastedown, bibliographic information in pencil on front pastedown (“I: GW 11312 II: GW 1958 III MS”), late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century title in cursive script using brown ink on recto side of front pastedown (“Bernardini de Gramolachiis Barchinonensis Artium, et Medicinae Magister, en Nobilissima Arte Astrologiae Tractatus In quo Coniunctiones, et Oppositiones Lune Cuiuslibet mensis in quolibet anno Facilime experiri possunt incipiendo Ab anno Domini Mcccclxxxxi usque ad annum Mcccccl. Deinde additus Liber Qui Compotus inscribitur”), modern manuscript description in cursive hand in pencil on recto side of rear pastedown (“il ms e di 21 (ventiun) carte.”)

Manuscript written in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in one the Catalan speaking regions of the Kingdoms of Aragón based on language, paleography, and watermarks; sixteenth-century handwritten ex libris belonging to an unidentified Discalced Carmelite Convent of Santa Teresa: “Conventus. Sa. Teresie. Carmel: Discal:”, fol. 1r; late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century handwritten ex libris belonging to Lazarus Ferolis (1550?-1600?) above the printer’s mark, “Lazarus Ferolis”, fol. 71v; London, Pickering and Chatto Booksellers; New York, Sotheby’s, 13 December 2000, lot 55; London, Reiss & Sohn, 1 November 2011, Lot 4422; London, Christie's, Sale 5334 13 June 2012, lot 65; Chicago, Les Enluminures, TM 645; purchased by the Malta Study Center with funds from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation and Malta Study Center Endowment, 2015

Imperfect: first incunabulum wanting leaf d10; second incunabulum wanting e6 and e7 with woodcut tables; manuscript wanting 5 leaves at end; fol. 33 damaged by cutting losing two lines of text, fol. 1rv has brown stain damage, fol. 52r ink stain lower margin, fol. 1-13 have small worming damage to lower spine edge, fol. 92 slight worming damaging text; light browning and wear to edges throughout

a-c8 + d10

22 small woodcut moons (19 x 19 mm) at various states of waxing and waning

Watermarks "roue dentée" Briquet 13374 (Grenoble, 1489 and Valence, 1493) and "tête de cerf" similar to Briquet 15542 (Sion, 1452) and Briquet 15544 (Catane, 1488); Gothic Type Haebler classification M18 and M95 (9:100G and 10:74G)

a-e8

Eight large woodcut hands for learning calculations (145 x 105 mm), fol. 38v, 39r, 41v, 42r, 43v, 44r, 54v, 55r; one woodcut calendar with sun and stars (94 x 94 mm), fol. 51v; one circular woodcut calculating table (100 x 100 mm), fol. 58r; one woodcut printer’s mark (48 x 48 mm), fol. 71v

Watermarks "cloche" similar to Briquet 4115 (Lyon, 1515) and "fleur de lis" not found in Briquet, watermarks for manuscript (fol. 72-92) "armoiries deux pals" Briquet 2066 (Palerme, 1473-1476) and "sirène" Briquet 13871 (Verceil and Biella, 1473); Gothic Type Haebler classification M19 and Roman Gft2112 (6:120G and 5:81B)

5-line initial “A” with rubrication and flourishes on fol. 72r; manuscript rubrication of initials and some majuscule letters