Leonardo de Pierio Dati (-1426)

Sferamundi: in Italian ottava rima. Written in a rounded gothic hand, 32 lines to a page. Initial A on the first leaf in red and yellow, some headings in red. Illustrated with 8 astronomical figures in water-colour. A foliation has been supplied in pencil. Fol. 1 AL padre al filio: et ad spirito sancto/Per ogni secul sia gloria: et honore./ 18 Doue si nauicca e finisse qui/L asia magiore [sic] el fiume tanai.//Finis.//(Within an outlined scroll in red) Questa sie opera del fa. ri. na.

c.1475

1 volume 18 ll folio. 29 1/2 x 20 cm. Unbound. Margins of some leaves frayed, with slight loss of text: second leaf torn.

Purchased 1931.

Farina has not been identified, but is presumably the name of the scribe. For a note on the contents of this poem, cf. entry for MS. No. 230.

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

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).