Canones vel operationes in operando quadrante. (DS731) (Q3921)
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| English | Canones vel operationes in operando quadrante. (DS731) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9949151873503681, LJS 497) |
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Canones vel operationes in operando quadrante.
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Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
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Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)
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Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)--Early works to 1800
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[circa 1502]
16. century
1502Gregorian
1502Gregorian
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Extent: 28 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 207 x 145 (155 x 100) mm bound to 207 x 152 mm
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Layout: Written in 25-29 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
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Origin: Written in southern Italy, ca. 1502. The geographical location is supported by textual references to the island of Diomedes (now Isole Tremiti), in Puglia, the binding from an earlier southern Italian manuscript, and the watermark similar to one used in Naples later, but some tables in the text give astronomical information for the 45th latitude, which passes through northern Italy...
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Title from explicit (f. 25v).
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Collation: Paper, 28; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3⁸(-2); [1-28], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
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Ms. codex.
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Binding: Bifolium from a 12th-century southern Italian manuscript of Augustine's In Iohannis evangelium tractatus (text in 2 columns, in the Bari type of Beneventan script, with majuscule initials highlighted in red or red and green).
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Decoration: 2 detailed pen-and-wash drawings of the astrolabe quadrant in black and red ink (use of quadrant to locate a star, including position of astronomer's head, f. 4v-5r; back of quadrant, f. 5v); 2 small drawings of towers illustrating measurement of height (f. 21v, 23v); a square diagram in black and red ink and wash illustrating the computation of the 12 houses of the horoscope for...
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Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 93 (Florence and Naples, 1529).
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Script: Written in humanistic cursive script.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 2010.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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