(Q43605)

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Almagest
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Historiated initials--France--13th century
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Decorated initials--France--13th century
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Astronomy--Early works to 1800
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Extent: ff. 271 : parchment ; 226 x 319 mm
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Title supplied from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Littera textualis.
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Layout: 1-1712 1814(through f. 218) 1912 2012(-11 after f. 240, with no loss of text) 21-2212 238(-7, 8). Quires signed in arabic numerals on last verso bottom center and occasionally on the first recto. 34 long lines, ruled in fine lead with wide lower margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-271v.
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Decoration: Opening historiated initial, f. 1, 6-line, depicts the prince Abu 'l-Wafâ' holding an armillary sphere and discoursing with a scholar.
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Other Decoration: 5- or 4-line initials, after f. 2 set outside the written space, in white-patterned pink or blue on ground of the other color, infilled with colored trilobe leaves or biting animal heads, with cusped bar border inhabited by drolleries (rabbit and hound; lion; bird). Numerous geometrical projections in the margins in red, green, black, and yellow ink.
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Copied in Southern France in 1279 according to the date on f. 184 (part of the explicit of Book 11).
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Assigned Date: s. XIII4/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/10/2012.
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Erased inscriptions at the top of ff. ii, 1. Belonged to Pier Leoni (d. 1492), physician to Lorenzo de' Medici; n. 111 in the inventory of his books compiled in 1582 and published by L. Dorez, "Recherches sur la bibliothèque de Pier Leoni, médecin de Laurent de Médicis," Revue des Bibliothèques 7 (1897) 81-106. Identified by J. Ruysschaert, "Nouvelles recherches au sujet de la bibliothèque de...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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