Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].

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Title
Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].
Alternative Title
Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum
Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Contributor
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187.
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Portunavonis, Jacobus de Milisapris de, scribe.
Published / Created
1467.
Publication Place
Padua, Italy and Italy Padua
Abstract

Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copied the Theorica planetarum. Also includes a number of astronomical illustrations; in De sphaera mundi: f. 1v ("de forma mundi notatur hec spera"); in Theorica planetarum: ff. 23v, 26r-v, 29r, 33r, 34r. Manuscript is a palimsest; original text is a 15th-century Italian religious text

Description
In Latin.
Titles from opening rubrics.
Script: first hand writes in humanist minuscule; second hand in gothic textualis.
Decoration: headings in red. Rubrication.
Layout: 1 column of 30 lines.
Binding: seventeenth-century paper binding over paper boards.
Foliation added in red modern pencil.
Scribal note (f. 38v): Explicit Theorica planeta[rum] per me Iacobu[m] de Milisapris de Portuna[v]o[n]is. Anno C[hrist]i optimi 1467 die nono me[n]sis septembris hora m[er]curii. In paduano studio i[n] [con]trata colombino[rum].
Provenance
Scribal note on 38v by Jacobus de Milisapris de Portunavonis. Autograph by Charles Greenwood, Halifax (front flyleaf). Armorial bookplate of Edward Hailstone. Purchased from Davis & Orioli, booksellers (their Catalogue LXVIII, Oct. 1935, no. 6-catalog entry accompanies manuscript) by Dr. Harvey Cushing. Armorial bookplate of Dr. Harvey Cushing on inside front cover. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Extent
1 item (i + 38 leaves) : 210 mm x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 22 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Illuminated manuscripts
Palimpsests (manuscript).
Material
paper, ill. ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Astronomy
Science, Medieval
Subjects
Astronomy > Early works to 1800
Science, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate
Greenwood, Charles > Autograph
Hailstone, Edward, 1818-1890 > Bookplate

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4684904
Object ID (OID)
16960301

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