Accession number
MS B.12
Object title
Kalendarium cum tabulis planetarum et eclipsum (MS B.12).
Created
England, ca. 1425.
Binding
Quarter morocco.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, varying number of lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 147 x 112 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Jan. 1942 from E.P. Goldschmidt, London (cat. 65, no. 1).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in England, ca. 1425.
Texts; John Somer, Kalendarium cum tabulis planetarum et eclipsium (1-32); Pseudo-Ptolemy, De significationibus septem planetarum, et capitis et caude draconis per 12 domos zodiaci ubi reperiuntur (34-50v); Peter of St.-Omer, Tractatus composicionis instrumenti ad inveniendum vera loca omnium planetarum (51-58v); Invocatio proprii angeli (59-61); De proporcionibus, in English (63-68v); Gerbertus, Epistola de proporcionibus, anonymous extracts in Latin on musical and harmonic theory (68v-76).
Decoration: 4 diagrams.
Texts; John Somer, Kalendarium cum tabulis planetarum et eclipsium (1-32); Pseudo-Ptolemy, De significationibus septem planetarum, et capitis et caude draconis per 12 domos zodiaci ubi reperiuntur (34-50v); Peter of St.-Omer, Tractatus composicionis instrumenti ad inveniendum vera loca omnium planetarum (51-58v); Invocatio proprii angeli (59-61); De proporcionibus, in English (63-68v); Gerbertus, Epistola de proporcionibus, anonymous extracts in Latin on musical and harmonic theory (68v-76).
Decoration: 4 diagrams.
Script
textura and Gothic cursive
Language
Latin and Middle English
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