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Title

Authors

• Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397
• Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
• Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294

Other related names

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931755613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155859463
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3175561

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1362 and 1399

Place

England

Summary

An astronomical treatise by Heinrich von Langenstein and a treatise on astronomy and astrology variously attributed to Albertus Magnus or Roger Bacon.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Collective title and author from title and author for Work 1 from Zacour-Hirsch.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Illuminated initial in gold, red, and blue at the beginning of each work (f. 1r, 15r); numerous initials in red and blue; rubricated in red and blue.

Provenance

• Jacques Rosenthal, 1916.
   
• Sold by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1923.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• England
• English
• Astronomy
• Diagrams
• Astrology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De improbatione concentricorum et epicyclorum, f. 1r
• fol. 15r — Speculum philosophiae, f. 15r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Diagram, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Diagram, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Diagram, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 15r
• fol. 19r — Manicule, f. 19r
• fol. 19r — Drawing, Face, f. 19r