Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Astronomical tables

Call number

Ms. Codex 974
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1387150
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1387150

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with some pages in Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1720

Place

England

Summary

Manuscript notebook mostly containing astronomical tables and calendar information, but also including miscellany such as Latin passages "On gluttony and drunkeness" and "Of the last doom," and items on world history such as "A view of the most notable epochs."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; date based on a page titled "A chronology of memorable things from the Creation to 1720."
   

Extent

34 leaves : 203 x 163 mm

Foliation

Paper, 34; [1-34]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. First leaf detached.

Support

Paper

Script

Written in a cursive script by various hands.

Subjects topical

• Calendars--Tables
• Longitude--Tables

Genres

• Notebooks
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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