Astronomical, astrological and mathematical tables, Astronomical and other tables, Canon — 15th century, last quarter; Italian
MS. Lat. misc. d. 88
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Astronomical, astrological and mathematical tables, Astronomical and other tables, Canon — 15th century, last quarter; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. misc. d. 88
Associated place
Frigento
Padua
Neapolis
Place of origin
Italian
Date
15th century, last quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. Watermarks: flower, not in Briquet but cf. nos.6644–5, 6647–52; Greek cross in circle (last quire only), not in Briquet but nearest to no.5575.
Physical extent
i + 115 leaves (fol.i, 115, later flyleaves)Text space varies.
Binding
18th-cent. Italian binding in half green morocco with pasteboard covered in marbled paper.
Acquisition
Bought 1972.
Provenance
Fol.1 : ‘Signatus E’ (16th–17th cent.?) and ‘MS. saecul. XVI.D.Coelest.s Pores[…?] Bened. Mus.’ (18th cent.). Fol.2: ‘Cap’5 [?or S?]’ perhaps in the 18th cent. hand and armorial book stamp of ‘Comes Donatus Silva’; the arms are those of the Silva family of Milan. Crollalanza mentions a Donato Silva, fl.1670.
On fol.1, 10v, 23v, 33v–4, 38, 58v, 60v, 69v–70, 82v–3, 94v, are scribbles in Russian apparently written by a Cossack soldier from the steppe city of Orenburg, 1914–15.
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