Second Locatellus edition for Scotus, first published by Zainer in Augsburg in 1472. This famous encyclopedic work presents the sum of then-contemporary knowledge on all branches of science: mathematics, arithmetics, geometry, astronomy, medicine, geography, music, etc. The woodcuts include a full-page tree of consanguinity (fol. 35v) and a variant of the famous T-O map (fol. 51r; cf. Shirley no. 1 and plate 2): a horizontal bar made up of the rivers Don ("Tanais fluvius"), Nile ("Nilus fluvius"), and Sea of Azov ("Meotides paludes"), separates Asia from Europe and Africa. The Mediterranean ("Mare magnum"), which separates Europe and Africa, appears asa vertical radial bar, forming a "T" together with the horizontal bodies of water.
"An investigation of the principal terms employed in all branches of knoledge. Chapters 15 to 23 of book 3 deal exclusively with music, which is defined there as 'the skill [peritia]of modulation consisting of tone and song' [...] The statement most widely quoted by later writers on music is perhaps: 'Music moves the feelings and changes the emotions' (iii, 17) [...] Isidore's writing on numerous subjects influenced a broad range of writers and thinkers throughout the Middle Ages" (New Grove IX, 340).
With ownership inscription of Antonio Morsino on the title page and leaf 2, and the bookplate of the famous bibliographer and collector Max Brun mounted on the front pastedown. The binding is slightly rubbed, the edges and corners of the boards are slightly bumped, the cloth is slightly faded at the head of both boards. The work is slightly browned and stained throughout, with some leaves affected more than others, water marks on some of the leaves, a few notes and underlinings in ink and pencil, the genealogical tree woodcut and leaf 2 of the first foliation have been slightly trimmed at the bottom. Otherwise in good condition. EDIT 16, CNCE 35696; Hain-C. 9277; Goff I-188; Sander 3528; vgl. DSB VII, 97 ff., Garrison-M. 6787 u. MGG VI, 1435 f.