The Beautiful Lunarium: Black Walls/White Stars, 1516

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The following are some beautiful images from a rather popular ephemerides by Bernardus de Granollachs, printed between 1484 and 1515.  The slender (16-page) work, Lunarium: In quo Coniunctiones & oppositiones Lunae... was published first in Spanish in 1484 and was then picked up and reprinted in a number of other languages over the next few decades.

The image most interesting to me comes from the Rome edition of 1516, simply because of the magnificent black wallsemblazoned with stars (which occurs on the title page):

The image did remind me very slightly of another gorgeous thing which I wrote about earlier in this blog (here):

Some other variations in the Granollachs can be seen below:

Lunarium in quo reperiuntur coniunctiones et oppositiones lunae et eclypses solis ... S.l. [1501]

Lunarium sive coniunctiones et oppositiones lunae 1497 - 1550 [Rom] [1497]