[Liber de astronomia]

Alternate Title:

Geber de astronomias et motibus stellarum.; Geber de astronomia et stellis.

Contributor:

Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (translator)

Name:

Geber, active 13th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1225

Description:

7 of the usual 9 books of this astronomical work (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue) translated by Gherardo da Cremona, with glosses and diagrams.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Don A. Canovas del Castillo (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Formerly owned by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1920 (Thomas R. Adams).; Purchased, 1949.; Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 1828-1897, former owner.; Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner.

Subject:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800; Trigonometry

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

64 leaves : parchment, illustrations; 261 x 198 (193 x 128) mm bound to 270 x 203 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (front flyleaf recto).; Foliation: Parchment, ii + 64 + i; [1-64]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a Gothic script by several hands.; Decoration: Decorated initial in red and blue (f. 1r); decorative ascenders and descenders added by a later hand beginning at the end of Book 5 (f. 31v), some with red ink (f. 33v-34r); trigonometric and spherical trigonometric diagrams throughout, most commonly in the margins; occasionally the text is shaped to accommodate a larger diagram (for example, f. 23v); replacement strips for diagrams (f. 3-4).; Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Probably written in Paris, France, or Oxford, England, in the mid-13th century (Georges/Juste).; Incipit: Scientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam fidei.; Explicit: ... i[n] duo media s[ed] q[uod] e[st] i[n] figura prima.; Contemporary and near-contemporary marginal notes throughout.; Illegible note with the date 1440 (f. 63v).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 826