Bounding coordinates not present and are approximated., Explanation in cartouche in lower left corner., Oriented with north to the left., Pictorial relief., Shows ships in battle, fortifications, city, fields, mountains., and Watermark in each half.
Bounding coordinates not present and are approximated., Explanation in cartouche in lower left corner., Oriented with north to the left., Pictorial relief., Shows ships in battle, fortifications, city, fields, mountains., and Stamp: Karpinski-Von Wieser Map Collec
Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
Manuscript on paper containing Leonardo Dati O.P. (1360-1425), or Gregorio Dati (1362-1435), La Sfera; a Libro di ricordi (1480-1501); sermons; extracts from Brunetto Latini, Il Tesoro; magical treatise; a "Portolano"; three sonnets; and 10 maps or views in watercolor and 18 colored circular diagrams
Description:
In Italian., Script: Art. 1 in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2, in two hands, same script as art. 1; artt. 3-9, one hand, writing in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca), and Decoration: only from f. 25r onwards: red stroking of majuscules; illustrations (watercolor diagrams and maps) to art. 6 include: sky scenes (stars; sun illuminating the earth; eclipse of the moon); maps of the earth (diagram with the equator; earth among the other elements; the horizon; the four regions, or plagae; directions of the winds); Ptolemaic system; T-O map; seas and geographic regions (unidentified sea; Black Sea and Caspian Sea; Tyrrhenian Sea; Dardanelles; Sea of Azov and Don; coast of North Africa; Mesopotamia, Arabia, Palestine; Tower of Babel; view of Tunis; western coast of Asia Minor, with burning Troy)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Leonardo, 1408-1472., Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1435., Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295., and Giamboni, Bono, ca. 1292.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Charts, diagrams, etc, Early maps, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Italian
