Astrological tables

Description

Title: Astrological tables
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
Description: In Italian.
Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204.
Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe.
Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers.
Stained throughout; final folio repaired.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
Provenance: Acquired from Rosenkilde and Bagger (Copenhagen) in 1971 as the gift of the Yale Library Associates.
Extent: ff. i + 16 + i : 185 x 136 (137 x 106) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Astrology
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Astrology > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Astrological Tables. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.