Astrological notes and tables in Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum and Stöffler's Almanach nova [manuscript], ca. 1504.
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Astrological notes and tables in Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum and Stöffler's Almanach nova [manuscript], ca. 1504.
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Folger card catalog title: Astronomical notes and tables in Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum and Stöffler's Almanach nova
Description
1 item.
Associated name
Zacuto, Abraham ben Samuel, approximately 1450- Almanach perpetuum celestium motuum.
Stoeffler, Johann, 1452-1531. Almanach nova.
Stoeffler, Johann, 1452-1531. Almanach nova.
Scope and content
Tables of the planets for each day of the week, giving (1) "hore a medio noctis ad meridiem" and (2) "hore noctis, hoc est a meridie" (leaf 1r); Tabula signi et gradus ascendentis qualibet hora atque minuto ad medium septimi climatis cuius latitudo est circa 49 gradus (leaves 2r-3v); Tabula equacionis domorum coeli ad medium septimi climatis cuius latitudo est circa 49 gradus (leaves 4r-6v); Tabulae horarum inequalium dierum noctiumque artificialium (leaves 7r-11r); Significaciones horarum planetarum (leaves 11v-12v); Tabula sequens dignitates, potestates, vires, ac fortitudines planetarum . . . exponit (leaves 12v-14r); Mappa nostri orbis habitabilis (leaf 16); Tabula climatorum et parallelorum (leaf 38r [on blank leaf of printed work]); Nota de tempore electo ad balneandum (leaf 270v); Libellus ysagogicus Aldilazii, id est servi Dei gloriosi, qui dicitur Alchabitius, ad magisterium judiciorum astrorum, interpretatus a Joanne Hyspalensi (leaves 271r-283r).
Notes bound with an imperfect copy of Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum and part of Stöffler's Almanach nova. Substantial manuscript notes on 16 leaves before and 14 leaves after (leaves 270v-283, numbered continuously from the printed work) the printed content, as well as on sig. e1r of Zacuto, on end pastedown. Annotations in red and black ink scattered throughout the printed works.
Notes bound with an imperfect copy of Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum and part of Stöffler's Almanach nova. Substantial manuscript notes on 16 leaves before and 14 leaves after (leaves 270v-283, numbered continuously from the printed work) the printed content, as well as on sig. e1r of Zacuto, on end pastedown. Annotations in red and black ink scattered throughout the printed works.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
With initials and words in red ink throughout.
Binding information
Bound in half-leather on wooden boards with the junction between the two protected with metal strips; tooling on the leather and metal strips; also with metal ornaments and a metal clasp; liturgical manuscript used in the binding as pastedowns. Spine repaired. Volume housed in a modern phase box.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 10:4)
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1815.3
Item Details
Call number
V.a.323 (ms. content)
Folger accession
cs1815