Isagoge in astrologiam

Description

Title: Isagoge in astrologiam
Creator: Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609
Published / Created: 1583-1588.
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks) of Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1606), Isagoge in astrologiam. This manuscript is apparently the autograph of the Astrologia iudiciaria sive genethliacum reported to have been composed by this German evangelical minister, rector of the Gymnasium at Magdeburg and poet
Description: In Latin and German.
Script: Apparently copied by one hand writing a small Humanistica Cursiva Currens in many different forms, often difficult to decipher. Headings in the same script or in fancy capitals. The passages in German are in Gothica Cursiva Currens.
Astrological diagrams, tables and calculations, all like the text of a rapid execution.
Binding: Original half binding of blind-tooled white pigskin decorated with rolls, the covers in an unorthodox way covered with green-blue blind-tooled parchment (?). On the front cover the gold-tooled initials "IMD" and the date "1599". Spine with three raised bands, with the number "10" painted in red in the second compartment. At the top illegible title label.
Provenance: Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Witten in honour of Paul Mellon (1980).
Extent: ff. ii + 275 : 200 x 160 and 200 x 155 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Germany 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609.
Subject (Topic): Astrology
German literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609
Astrology > Early works to 1800
German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Georg Rollenhagen, Isagoge in Astrologiam. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.