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De sphaera, etc
Title
De sphaera, etc.
Created
England (Cambridge), 1526-27.
Physical Description
ff. ca. 106 : paper ; 383 x 275 (323 x 222) mm.
Language
English
Notes
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.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
In English and Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 14 Dec. 1964, with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 337.
Sacro Bosco, De Sphaera, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sacro Bosco, De Sphaera, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - England - 16th century.
Volvelles.
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