Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric and The manuscript is a palimpsest containing portions of Ovid's Heroides: on f. 2, Epistle XVI, lines 109-172; on f. 3, Epistle XVI, lines 173-233; on f. 5, Epistle XIV, lines 79-132; on f. 7, Epistle XIII, lines 119-166; on f. 8, Epistle XVI, lines 234-297. Remaining leaves unidentified
Alternative Title:
Algorismus vulgaris and Algorismus Boetii incipit
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from opening rubric., Layout: Single columns of 32 lines., Script: gothic hybrida., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: modern paper., Secundo folio: De additione., and Evidence of pricking.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
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., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
"Dedicato all illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signore Andrea Marcello, Senatore Amplissimo, e Fratello dell' Eccellentiss: Sigr. Federico, Procuratore di S. Marco"., From Coronelli's Atlante Veneto (1691)., Imperfect: mutilated. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., Includes text and illustrations.Surrounding map border are "Tauola dell' Ombre Rette, e Meridiane..." and "Gradi di Latitudine, ridotti in Leghe di Germania, a 15 per Grado dell'Equatore" and "Gradi di Latitudine, ridotti in Migtia d'Italia, a 60 per Grado dell'Equatore", and signs of zodiac., Prime meridian: Ferro; coordinates converted by cataloger to express longitude based on Greenwich prime meridian., and Western hemisphere with California as an island on second Sanson model, with only C. Blanco named. Identifies "Terra di Iesso, Scoperta dagli Holland l'Anno 1643" to West, and mentions to North of California "In alcune Carte moderne uiene quiui situato lo Stretto d'Anian".
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718. Atlante Veneto., Karpinski, Louis Charles,--1878-1956--Ownership., Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Wieser, Franz,--Ritter von,--1848-1923--Ownership.
