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Astronomical diagrams
Binder: Proctor, Robert
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.
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.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1936) by Davis and Orioli
15th Century, Late
Circa
1490
CE
-
Circa
1499
CE
Binding by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007
Support
composed of
paper
Page
Painting
Illuminated manuscript
Accession number: MS 377
Primary reference Number: 169781
Project ID: 3529
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Astronomical diagrams" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/169781 Accessed: 2024-11-02 12:25:40
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