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Title

Astronomical tables

Authors

• Manzini, Carlo Antonio, d. 1678

Call number

Ms. Codex 1105
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4252398
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4252398

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

A composite volume primarily composed of manuscript and printed astronomical charts. Slightly more than half of the folios are manuscript. Printed text may be Manzini's Tabulae primi mobilis quibus nova dividendi ars et praecipue circule positionis inventio ..., Bologna, 1626.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

225 leaves : 177 x 110 mm. bound to 179 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, vi + 225 + i; [1-225]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary morocco (rebacked), gold-tooled with vase and flower design, broken clasps.

Decoration

Black stamped coat-of-arms (f. 1r), charts decorated to look like columns (f. 18v).

Script

Written in an italic script.

Provenance

• Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Solvang, Calif.), 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Tables

Genres

• Codices
• Tables (documents)
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tabula sexagenaria deserviens multiplicationi, f. 1r
• fol. 11v — Tabula declinationum, f. 11v
• fol. 18r — Tabula converiendi horas et minuta in g. et m. aequatoris, f. 18r
• fol. 19v — Tabula ascentionum rectarum, f. 19v
• fol. 36v — Positionum pol. 42 tabula declinatio meridionalis supra terram, f. 36v
• fol. 88r — Caroli Antonio Mangini tabulae ascensionum et descensionum obliquarum ab elevatione poli gr. 1 ad elevat. gr. 49, f. 88r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp, Coat of arms, f. 1r