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Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments
Title
Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments.
Created
Germany , approximately 1450.
Physical Description
1 item (ii + 131 + i leaves) : ill. ; 290 mm x 210 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: Gothic cursiva.
Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication.
Layout: 1 column of 35 lines.
Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover.
Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25.
Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1.
In Latin.
Provenance
Two paper labels pasted on front cover: a title-piece (heavily damaged) ending in "cum aliis"; a note with manuscript letter "Z". Manuscript table of contents on front pastedown. Ownership inscription on front flyleaf and back pastedown: Johannes Serlinger. Possible provenance inscription on p.3 (title 1): Conventus. Name of the convent rubbed away; Salzburg added in red modern pencil. Shelfmark "X. VI. 20" on upper pastedown. Accompanying documents include description by Taeuber and Weil, booksellers of Munich, from whom Dr. Harvey Cushing purchased the manuscript. Bookplate of Harvey Cushing on inside front cover. Hist bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together.
Variant and related titles
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Other formats
Also available on microfilm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Collationes ad virgas planam et scriptam pro capacitate vasorum inquirenda
Compositio et usus torqueti / Franco de Polonia
Instruction for making a celestial globe
Epitome phainomenon
Sententiae
De gallaxia
Hyginus philosophus (Aratus de constellationibus)
De constellationibus / Beda
List of paranatellons
Concerning the 12 signs of the Zodiac
Calculations for 1425
De temporum ratione (chapter 25) / Beda
Praesagia
De mansibus lunae / Alfraganus
Tabula aspectus planetarum ad lunam
Ad inveniendam distanciam longitudinis inter Pragam et Tholetum
Instructions for elevation measurements
Compositio baculi Jacob
Speculum planetarum / Johannes Simonis
Compositio organi Ptolemei
Canones tabularum / Johannes de Linneriis
Compositio quadrantis
De compositione astrolabii
De utilitatibus astrolabii
De compositione et usu cylindri
Two short notes on clock-instruction
Epistola de magnete / Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt
In composicione horologii
Mensura ad faciendum opus organicum
De compositione clavicordii
Theoricae planetum / Gerardus Cremonensis.
References
Faye, C. and Bond, W. Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 58, 25.
The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, 1943, Incunabula 53
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates.
Also listed under
Germany.
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