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ANIANUS (fl. ca. 1300?). Compotus cum commento . Lyons: Jean du Pré, 10th February 1488 [1489]. Chancery 4° (193 x 142mm). Collation: a-e 8 (a1 blank, a2 r Liber qui Compotus inscribitur: una cum figuris et manibus necessariis tam in suis locis quam in fine libri positis Incipit feliciter . Prologue, incipit: [ L ] ux ] orta est iusto , a4 v blank, a5 r text [ C ] ompotus est talis proprie dictus manualis , a8 r blank, b2 r blank, e7 v colophon: impressus Lugduni per Johannem de Prato. Anno domini. M.cccc.lxxxviii. die. x. Februarii , e8 r Registrum , e8 v printer's woodcut device A). 40 leaves. Gothic types 6:120 (text), Haebler 12:81B (commentary), 5:97 (names of the months). 34-35 lines of commentary. 8 full-page woodcuts of hands, 2 large astronomical diagrams, 2 full-page calendar tables. Rubricated (initials and paragraph-marks). (Marginal tears in last leaf, slight worming and staining.) 18th-century grey-blue boards. Provenance : 18th-century label with printed or stamped library-number 2064; Sir George Shuckburgh (armorial bookplate). Probably the third edition of this popular medieval illustrated treatise on astronomy and the calendar. Except for the Strassburg edition by Prüss, all incunable editions are EXTREMELY RARE. Of this edition by Jean du Pré, his first of the text, ONLY ONE OTHER COPY HAS SURVIVED (Grenoble Bibl. Mun.). H 5594; GW 1952; Pellechet 770; Maignien 45.