Opus quod Almanach intitulatur

Date:
c. 1505
Reference:
MS.585
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Opus quod Almanach intitulatur. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Written in a difficult current script, with many abbreviations: by a German scribe. Illustrated with 3 rough pen-drawn diagrams. Fol. 1 Antequam ad ostentationem huius operis quod Almanach intitulatur accedamus Cuius noticia partim Astro / nomie partim Astrologie subordinatur Generalis / noticia cognoscenda est Astronomie ... 6v ...quod iste aspectus directe est / In meridie. 7 Planetary tables. Dated 1505. Ff. 8, 9 De notabilibus permutationibus aeris. 10 Table of 'good' and 'bad' days. Fol. 11v Pro deiectione sanguinis electio secundum institucionem Gerhardi de solis [Bituricensis] super nonum Almansoris [Rasis] ... 14 List of constellations.

Publication/Creation

c. 1505

Physical description

1 volume 16 ll. (first & last 2 bl.). 4to. 20 x 141/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. Last [blank?] leaf almost entirely cut away: margins cropped.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Purchased 1927.

Notes

The notes on medical astrology on fol. 11 are based on the 'Commentum super nona particula Almansoris' by Gerardus Bituricensis [de Solo], first published at Lyons in 1504.

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Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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