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Title

An Abstract of Astronomia Carolina

Authors

• Lane, William

Call number

Ms. Codex 891
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3430896
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3430896

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1740-1838

Place

England

Summary

Compendium of astronomical information and tables compiled from Thomas Streete's Astronomia Carolina and other sources. Includes several tables of solar eclipses visible in Leicestershire to 1999, plus tables of logarithms; includes detailed table of contents [ix-xiii]. Treatise on sundials is written from the back to the front, reversed, in the same hand. Blank pages in the center of the book were used for veterinary recipes, accounts, death and marriage notices (1835-1837), and a history of the manor "Milton" in Milton, Somersetshire.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title, attribution, and date: William Lane his Book 1740 (title page, p. [v]).
   
• Three leaves laid in, dated 1752, 1779, 1784, and one undated leaf tipped in, 19th century[?].
   

Extent

177 leaves :

Foliation

Paper, 177 leaves; [xx], 1-207, [208-286, ii, 287-338]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, modern pagination in pencil, lower outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Decoration

Pen and ink diagrams of the solar system, diagrams of planetary motion and calculations of longitude; 8 pen and ink diagrams of sundial geometry.

Script

Astronomical texts written in a cursive script by a single hand, with the middle section written in several additional hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskill Rare Books, 2002.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Tables
• Solar eclipses--Early works to 1800
• Sundials--Early works to 1800
• Veterinary prescriptions--19th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Diagrams
• Recipes
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• 3 — Diagram, p. 3
• 14 — Diagram, p. 14
• 18 — Diagram, p. 18
• 24 — Diagram, p. 24
• 26 — Diagram, p. 26
• 34 — Diagram, p. 34
• 36 — Diagram, p. 36
• 43 — Diagram, p. 43
• 51 — Diagram, p. 51
• 53 — Diagram, p. 53
• 54 — Diagram, p. 54
• 55 — Diagram, p. 55
• 60 — Diagram, p. 60
• 66 — Diagram, p. 66
• 73 — Diagram, p. 73
• 75 — Diagram, p. 75
• 81 — Diagram, p. 81
• 85 — Diagram, p. 85
• 87 — Table, p. 87
• 115 — Diagram, p. 115
• 128 — Table, p.128
• 129 — Table, p. 129
• 130 — Table, p. 130
• 131 — Diagram, p. 131
• 132 — Table, p. 132
• 133 — Table, p. 133
• 135 — Table, p. 135
• 136 — Table, p. 136
• 137 — Table, p. 137
• 138 — Table, p. 138
• 139 — Table, p. 139
• 140 — Table, p. 140
• 141 — Table, p. 141
• 142 — Table, p. 142
• 143 — Table, p. 143
• 144 — Table, p. 144
• 145 — Table, p. 145
• 146 — Table, p. 146
• 147 — Table, p. 147
• 148 — Table, p. 148
• 149 — Table, p. 149
• 150 — Table, p. 150
• 151 — Table, p. 151
• 152 — Table, p. 152
• 153 — Table, p. 153
• 154 — Table, p. 154
• 155 — Table, p. 155
• 156 — Table, p. 156
• 157 — Table, p. 157
• 158 — Table, p. 158
• 159 — Table, p. 159
• 160 — Table, p. 160
• 161 — Table, p. 161
• 162 — Table, p. 162
• 163 — Table, p. 163
• 164 — Table, p. 164
• 165 — Table, p. 165
• 166 — Table, p. 166
• 167 — Table, p. 167
• 168 — Table, p. 168
• 169 — Table, p. 169
• 170 — Table, p. 170
• 171 — Table, p. 171
• 172 — Table, p. 172
• 173 — Table, p. 173
• 174 — Table, p. 174
• 175 — Table, p. 175
• 176 — Table, p. 176
• 177 — Table, p. 177
• 178 — Table, p. 178
• 179 — Table, p. 179
• 180 — Table, p. 180
• 181 — Table, p. 181
• 182 — Table, p. 182
• 183 — Table, p. 183
• 184 — Table, p. 184