De sphaera

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Title: De sphaera
Creator: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Contributor: Konrad, von Megenberg, 1309-1374.
Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400?]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), Die deutsche Sphaera, an adaptation in German of Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. With 23 verses dealing with the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet, excerpted from Hugutio of Pisa (d. 1212), Liber derivationum
Description: In German.
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens.
The initials are not executed. Coarsely drawn diagrams; the principal ones are on ff. 2r (Earth in the middle of the circles of the elements, the planets and the heavens), 9v (a quadripartite circular map of the world, three quarters covered with sea and inhabited by fish), 10v (a circular diagram and another with "cauda Draconis" and "caput Draconis"), 11r (two diagrams showing eclipses), 11v (related diagrams).
Binding: Yellow limp vellum too large for the present manuscript.
Provenance: Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.
Extent: ff. i + 11 : 290 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic): Astronomy
German poetry
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Numerology
Science, Medieval
Subjects: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Astronomy > Early works to 1800
German poetry > Middle High German, 1050-1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Numerology
Science, Medieval
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.