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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 3290

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3290
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia; Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two cosmographical works: Geographia (Geography), written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), and Imago mundi (Image of the World), by the French theologian and astrologer Pierre d'Ailly (b. 1351, d. 1420). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 3306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3306
Title:
Ptolemy, On Music translated into Latin by Niccolò Leoniceno
Scope & Content:
A deluxe copy of the treatise of Claudius Ptolomaeus On Music in Latin from the library of the Franchino Gaufurio a Renaissance theorist of music and harmony. Contents: f.1v-2r: Table of chapters, with the inscription: 'Franchini Gafurii Laudensis musice professoris hic liber est (written in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 3686

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3686
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 3702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3702
Title:
Astronomical tracts and tables; calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Short astronomical notes, beginning: 'generalis Regula pro omnibus .5. planetis'. ff. 1v-46r: Astronomical tables for the course of the planets, Sun and Moon, beginning: 'Saturni tabula prima secundum almanach'; including tables for the Sun which are attributed to a certain ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1461
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 7195

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7195
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume