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
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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
Collection Information
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 335
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- 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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Sacro Bosco, De Sphaera, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 335.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9786586
- OID
- 10803566
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms335.htm