Firmin De Beauval. [Firminus de Bellavalle]

Firminus repertorium de mutatione Aeris Tam Via Astrologica, quam metheorologica, pristino nitori restitutum, per Philippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem. #11;

      Jacques Kerver, Paris;: Jacques Kerver,, 1539.. First Edition with Jollain notes, second overall.. In a recent vellum binding using an old antiphonal leaf with vellum ties, replaced endpapers, washed, the leaves show some soiling along edges but are generally clean & bright. Expert repair to soiled blank corners of leaves 71 to end, small lower marginal wormhole at end .#11;. Folio.. Astrological tables in the text. Kerver"s printer"s device with two cocks (Silvestre 52); some cribl! initials. Firmin (fl. 1338-45), French astrologer in the diocese of Amiens. "The De mutatione a!ris is divided into seven parts: (I) introduction, dealing with the nature of different parts of the sky and of the stars, the seasons and climates; (II) global changes due to great conjunctions and eclipses, and the entries of the sun into the solstices or equinoxes or other signs of the zodiac; (III) global changes due to conjunctions and opposition of sun and moon; (IV) particular judgments determined by such conjunctions and oppositions and others; (V) particular judgments determined by the relative position of the moon and stars, with reference to zodiacal signs; (VI) predictions concerning rain...; (VII) other meteorological predictions derived from science or folklore. This work might be called a treatise on astrological meteorology. It is a compilation derived from many sources, chiefly Ptolemy, P1iny, al-Kindi and Abu Ma'shar, 'Ali ibn abi-I-Rijal and 'Ali ibn Ridwan, John of Seville and Abraham ben Ezra, Albert the Great and Leopold of Austria; not to speak of popular knowledge partly transmitted by oral tradition. The book seems to have obtained some popularity; it was printed in 1485."-Sarton, III, pp. 657-58.#11; Moreau/Renouard 1323. Adams F508. BM STC (French) 166. VD 16 Drucke, Wolfenb. II, 547. Hellmann, Meteorology,16. .Kiessling, Library of Robert Burton , 576. Cantamessa I,428. Not in Gardner, Caillet, or Esoterica.