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REISCH, GREGOR. Margarita philosophica. Title within woodcut historiated border, partly tinted green; full-page and text illustrations, diagrams, and music examples; 2 woodcut musical diagrams on one folding leaf. [260] (of [324]) leaves; lacks the world map and 64-leaf appendix dealing with mathematics and geography. 4to,199x150 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, front cover stamped I Z A in black at top, ties lacking; title soiled, with contemporary monastic ownership inscription partly erased, few marginalia, light marginal dampstaining toward end. Bookplate of Otto Orren Fisher. (Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 24 January 1515)
Encyclopedic compendium of natural and moral philosophy in dialogue form for students, originally published in 1503, covering Latin grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy, physics, natural history, physiology, psychology, and ethics. Alden 515/14; Shirley 22(1); Smith, Rara Arithmetica, pages 82-83 ("the first modern encyclopedia").
