Tabulae astronomicae, with brief extracts from Canones in tabulas Alphonsi regis, by Johannes (Dank) de Saxonia, and with a few anonymous additions

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Title: Tabulae astronomicae, with brief extracts from Canones in tabulas Alphonsi regis, by Johannes (Dank) de Saxonia, and with a few anonymous additions
Creator: Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284
Contributor: John, of Saxony, active 1327-1355.
Published / Created: [ca. 1500]
Publication Place: North Italy (Florence?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment and paper of the Alfonsine Tables, a scientific work on astronomy, executed on parchment and decorated, but unfinished, to which paper leaves have been added at a not much later date, and the text completed, probably by a scholar
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: 1) ladder in a circle with star at top, two varieties, similar to Briquet 5920; 2) eagle displayed within a circle, similar to Briquet 203.
Script: Four scribes have written the manuscript: (1) the professional, humanistic hand of the parchment section; (2) the rapid, partly illegible cursive hand of the paper leaves; (3) a late humanistic hand which has supplied "radices" in red and brown inks in the lower margins of ff. 33-38; (4) a hand that filled in the numerals on the whole of f. 63r and a part of f. 36v, distinguishable by his numeral "7".
In the parchment section, headlines and part of the writing in red (the sixth place in each table is outlined in yellow glair, except in the table on f. 57r, where the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-first places are outlined in blues). Longitudinal spaces between columns of the tables in the parchment section, ff. 38v-42v, 53r, and 61r-70v, have been decorated with arabesque patterns of vines, leaves, and flowers in great variety and usually in differing combinations of glair and blue, but the work has been left unfinished toward the end of the section. No illustration.
Binding: Modern. Blue morocco, gilt, matching slipcase of straight-grained blue morocco, by R. Wallis, original gilt edges.
Provenance: Mellon MS 140, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. ii + 92 + ii : 303 x 222 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Mellon MS 23
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment and paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284.
Subject (Topic): Astronomy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284
Alphonsine Tables
Astronomy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Alphonsus, Rex Castellae, Tabulae Astronomicae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 9878399
Object ID (OID): 33071427