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Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m]
Title
Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].
Created
Padua, Italy ; 1467.
Physical Description
1 item (i + 38 leaves) : paper, ill. ; 210 mm x 150 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
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].
In Latin.
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.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
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"
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Faye, C. and Bond, W. Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 57, 22
The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, 1943, Manuscript 53
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Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates.
Illuminated manuscripts.
Palimpsests (manuscript).
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