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Von dem Gang des Himels und Sternen.

Accession number
MS M.384
Object title
Von dem Gang des Himels und Sternen.
Created
Rhineland, Germany, second half of the 15th century.
Binding
Brown English calf, blind-tooled, ca. 1850; labeled: Varia curiosa.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
45 leaves (1 column, 34-35 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Owned by a member of the Ashdown or Aston family mid 19th century (bull's head crest embossed on fol. 1); Robert Brown, Jr. (owned in 1882); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. astrological compilation; written and decorated in the Rhineland, Germany, second half of the 15th century.
Attributed to Caspar Engelsüss or Michael Scot.
Leaves are numbered 197-241; after fol. 33 the layout of the text is 2 columns, 36-37 lines.
Decoration: 54 circular colored pen drawings.
Script
cursive script
Language
German
Century
Classification