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Astronomical diagrams: MS 377

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Titles

Astronomical diagrams

Maker(s)

Binder: Proctor, Robert

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark cf. Briquet no. 15152), 8 fols. (paginated in black ink 2 – 17), 310 x 220 mm.

BINDING: 2007, limp vellum binding by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum

CONTENTS: Diagrams painted in red, blue, black and yellow, some including discs mounted on paper and silk pointer threads: fol. 1r-v Theorica Solis
fols. 2r – 3r Theorica Lune; fols. 3v – 4r Theorica de tribus superioribus
fol. 5r Theorica Mercurii; fol. 6r Figura visibilis…diversitate aspectus; fol. 6v Tabula ostendens maximam latitudinem; fol. 7r-v Theorica declinationum
fol. 8v Diameter reflections.

Notes

History note: Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (stamp, fols. 5v, 8v); purchased from Davis and Orioli, Wallingford, Berkshire by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1936.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1936) by Davis and Orioli

Dating

15th Century, Late
Circa 1490 CE - Circa 1499 CE

Note

Binding by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Page

Techniques used in production

Painting
Illuminated manuscript

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 377
Primary reference Number: 169781
Project ID: 3529

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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