[La sfera], [ca. 1425].

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[La sfera], [ca. 1425].

Unsigned cosmography, astrology, and geography textbook written in verse by the Florentine silk merchant Gregorio Dati; sometimes attributed to his brother Leonardo Dati, a Dominican friar. Illustrated with astrological charts, geographical diagrams, world maps, and portolan chart sections of the southern Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts.

[48] p. : ill., 12 hand col. ms. maps, vellum ; 29 cm.

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