Mathematical, computistical, astronomical and astrological treatises

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Title: Mathematical, computistical, astronomical and astrological treatises
Published / Created: 1281.
Publication Place: Southern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus. 2) Thebit ben Chorat, De recta imaginatione sphaerae. 3) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. 4) Iohannes Campanus of Novara (ascr.), Tractatus quadrantis. 5) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Compotus. 6) Gerardus Sablonetanus (ascr.), Theorica planetarum (also attributed to other authors). 7) Alfraganus, Liber differentiarum, tr. John of Seville
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by a single scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Numerous and often extensive marginal notes by various 13th and 14th century hands, mostly in small rapid cursive handwriting, some in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria.
Red paragraph marks and 2-3-line plain initials with guide-letters; on f. 1r a larger flourished littera duplex inbrown and red; the other artt. open with larger plain initials. Numerous pointing hands. Pen-and-ink drawings and diagrams throughout.
Binding: Early, heavy wooden boards recovered with new brown sheepskin. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "TRACTATUS ASTRONOMICI. MS A.D. 1281".
Provenance: Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1970.
Extent: ff. i + 77 + i : 225 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic): Astrology
Astronomy, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
Subjects: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Astrology
Astronomy, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Mathematical, Computistical, Astronomical and Astrological Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.