- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
- Published / Created:
- 1526-27.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 337
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Calendars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc
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