Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• John of Seville ?

Other related names

• Gillingham, Harrold E. (Harrold Edgar), 1864-1954, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89673371.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

This manuscript contains a Treatise on the construction of an astrolabe.

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Penwork initial marking incipit (fol. 1r)

Script

Provenance

• Gift of Harrold Edgar Gillingham (1864-1954) to the Free Library of Philadelphia; a pencil inscription on the first flyleaf gives the price in lire ("Lire 455 / 22 ½"), suggesting the manuscript was purchased in Italy
   

Keywords

• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Science
• 15th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Treatise on the Construction of an Astrolabe; incipit: Dicit Joh[an]n[e]s cum volueris face[re] astrolabiu[m] accipe auricalcu[m] optimu[m] quod est celeris metallis…; explicit: …in regla astrolabii et pone initium prime ad radicem tabelle quem ad modum vides in hac figura

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Harrold Edgar Gillingham