De sphaera, etc

Description

Title: De sphaera, etc
Creator: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Contributor: Oresme, Nicole, approximately 1320-1382.
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso.
Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red.
Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
Provenance: Belonged to W. Redmond Cross, Yale 1896; gift of Mrs. Cross in 1968.
Extent: ff. ii + 40 + iv : 232 x 159 (170 x 105) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Subject (Topic): Astronomy, Medieval
Cosmography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Astronomy, Medieval
Cosmography > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sacro Bosco, De Sphaera, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.