De sphaera, etc.

Description

Title: De sphaera, etc.
Creator: Oresme, Nicole, ca. 1320-1382 and Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript.
Description: Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso.
Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3.
Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red.
Extent: ff. ii + 40 + iv : parchment ; 232 x 159 (170 x 105) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Astronomical charts
Charts (Graphic documents)
Diagrams
Manuscripts
Rubrics
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Sacro Bosco, Joannes de,--fl. 1230
Subject (Topic): Astronomy, Medieval
Cosmography--Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sacro Bosco, De Sphaera, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 335.

Orbis Record: 9786586
OID: 10803566
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms335.htm