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Copernicus Library

BOOKS OWNED OR ANNOTATED BY COPERNICUS

THE EARLY PERIOD. BOOKS WITH COPERNICUS' OWNERS' INSCRIPTIONS.
Euclides
ELEMENTA GEOMETRIAE
Venice, 1482
bound together with:
Haly Albohazen
IN IUDICIIS ASTRORUM
Venice, 1485
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 56
Alfonsus X
TABULAE ASTRONOMICAE
Venice 1492
bound together with:
Regionomtanus Johannes
TABULAE DIRECTIONUM ET PROFECTIONUM
Augsburg, 1490
and with:
A HANDWRITTEN QUIRE CONTAINING ASTRONOMICAL TABLES CALLED IN COPERNICAN LITTERATURE: THE UPPSALA NOTEBOOK.
22 x 16,5 cm
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 4
Crastonus Johannes
DICTIONARIUM GRAECUM CUM INTERPRETATIONE LATINA
Modena, 1499-1500
31,5 x 21 cm
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 5
On the front flyleaf, Copernicus wrote his name in Greek.
Pontanus Ioannes Iovian
OPERA
Venice 1501
bound together with:
Bessarion
IN CALUMNIATOREM PLATONIS. - CORRECTIO LIBRORUM PLATONIS "DE LEGIBUS" GEORGIO TRAPEZUNTIO INTERPRETE. - DE NATURA ET ARTE ADVERSUS EUNDEM TRAPEZUNTIUM TRACTATUS.
Venice, 1503
and with:
Aratus
PHAENOMENA [WITH THEON'S COMMENTARY]
(Text and Commentary in Greek.)
Venice 1499
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 3
All three books in this volume are annotated; some notes are in Greek.


BOOKS OFFERED TO COPERNICUS BY GEORG JOACHIM RHETICUS
Euclides
Stoicheión
Basel, 1533
bound together with:
Regiomontanus Johannes
DE TRIANGULIS OMNIMODIS
Nuremberg, 1533
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 9
Its title page bears a dedication in Rheticus'hand.
Apianus Petrus
INSTRUMENTUM PRIMI MOBILIS.
Accedunt
Gebri filii Affla
DE ASTRONOMIA LIBRI IX.
Nuremberg, 1534
bound together with:
Witelo
Pertoptikés
Nuremberg, 1535
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 8
The title page of Apian's Instrumentum carries the dedication written by G.J.Rheticus.
Ptolemaeus Claudius
MAGNE CONSTRUCTIONIS....LIB. XIII.
WITH THEON'S COMMENTARY
Basel, 1538
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 10
This is the first Greek edition of Ptolemy's Syntaxis. Its title page bears a dedication by Rheticus.


MEDICAL BOOKS BEQUEATHED BY COPERNICUS TO DOCTOR FABIAN EMMERICH.
Villa Nowa Arnoldus de
BREVIARUM PRACTICAE MEDICINAE
Pavia 1485
bound together with:
Savonarola Joannes Michael
CANONICA DE FEBRIBUS
Bologna 1487
The Varmian and Masurian Museum in Olsztyn
Senesis Hugo
SUPER QUARTA FEN PRIMI CANONIS AVICENNAE (Completed by Marsilius de Sancta Sophia).
Venice, 1485
bound together with:
Savonarola Joannes Michael
PRACTICA MEDICINAE
Venice 1486
Strängnäss Incunab. Gol. 452
Fabian Emmerich obtained this book on the basis of Copernicus' last will.
Tarenta Valascus de
PRACTICA SIUE PHILONIUM
Lyons, 1490
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 7
Argellata Petrus de
CHIRURGIA
Venice 1499
bound together with:
Silvaticus Matthaeus
LIBER PANDECTARUM MEDICINAE.- QUAESTIONES ALIORUM AUCTORUM
Venice 1498
30,5 x 21 cm
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 14
On the last page of item book ( fol. 182 v) there is a long medical prescription beautifully written by Copernicus, while some notes at the beginnig=ng of the book also come form his hand.
Montagnana Bartholomeus
CONSILIA
Cermisonus Antonius
CONSILIA
Caballa Franciscus
TRACTATUS DE ANIMALI THERIA.
Venice 1514
31 x 22 cm
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, 42 : 52 (Obr.)
The margins of the volume contain some 20 short notes, written undeniably by Copernicus, who also wrote a long medical note in two Columns on the recto of the last folio. ( noty na k. 345v, 346,349 i 406)
Regiomontanus Johannes
CALENDARIUM
Augsburg, 1492
bound together with:
Regiomontanus Johannes
EPHEMERIDES 1491 - 1506
Augsburg, 1492
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 13
Stoeffler Johannes, Pflaum Jacobus
ALMANACH NOUA IN ANNOS 1499 - 1531
Ulm 1499
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 11
Ptolemaeus Claudius
COSMOGRAPHIA
Ulm, 1486
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, incunab. 32: 10
Plinius Secundus
HISTORIA NATURALIS
Venice, 1487
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 12
Ptolemaeus Claudius
ALMAGESTUM SEU MAGNAE CONSTRUCTIONIS LIBER.
(The Latin translation of the Syntaxis by Gerard of Cremona)
Venice, 1515
Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Copernicana 17
Stoeffler Johannes
CALENDARIUM ROMANUM MAGNUM
Oppenheim, 1518
Uppsala, Library of the Astronomical Observatory, Coll. Hjorter G. I. 51