Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts

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16960305

Description

Title
Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts
Alternative Title
Medical and astrological texts : in English
Published / Created
between 1551 and 1553.
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of texts on medical and astrological topics, calendars and horoscopes

Description
In English.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: Gothic cursiva.
Decoration: 4 anatomical figures, 12 colored drawings of occupations of the months, 7 colored drawings of signs of the planets, 4 of the temperaments, 12 of the signs of the zodiac, 12 of their astrological abbreviations, and 12 large paintings of the signs of the zodiac. Also included: base of an astrolabe cut from a musical ms., ca. 1500 (f. 36r). Copious rubrication throughout.
Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines.
Binding: modern white leather binding over pasteboards.
Date of creation must be after 1552 and before 1554; the table on f. 6r runs from 1553 to 1590 and the chronicle notes on f.25r run to the beheading of the Duke of Somerset in 1552.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of John Ives (1751-76) of Yarmouth on front pastedown and inscribed "Formerly in the collection of Dr. Beevor / John Ives" on first front flyleaf. Armorial bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston on front pastedown and inscription added below Ives's: "and bought in London in 1772 by Wm. Borthwick younger of Crookston / J. Borthwick, Crookston / 1830." Presented to Yale Medical Library in 1949 by Louis M. Rabinowitz.
Extent
1item (37 leaves) : 310 mm x 200 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 26 vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Devotional calendars
Material
parchment, ill. ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Astrology
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Subjects
Astrology > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Borthwick, John, 1787-1845 > Ownership
Ives, John, 1751-1776 > Bookplate
Rabinowitz, Louis Mayer, 1887-1957 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4697532
Object ID (OID)
16960305

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