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Egerton MS 1050

Record Id:

032-001984129

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001984129

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x00008a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 1050

Title:

ARATI, Romani, Phænomena, per Germanicum Cæsarem in Latinum conversa, cum expositione in eadem ; præmissa Arati vita;-Germanici Cæsaris Prognosticorum fragmentum, cum commento [the commentary contains two chapters more than the printed editions, cf. Bandini, Cat. Bibl. Med. Laurent, tom. iii. col. 310] ;-C. Julii Hygini Poeticon Astronomicon, [the ivth book ends imperfect, at p. 554,1. 16, of Van Staveren's edition of the Mythographi Latini, 1742.] On vellum, written in the xvth century, with well-executed colored figures to illustrate Aratus. Octavo. [Bibl. Fg. 1050]

Scope & Content:

Caius Julius Hyginus: Poeticon astronomicon.

Germanicus Cæsar, Augusti Imperatoris nepos: Prognosticoruin fragmentum, cum commento.

Germanicus Cæsar, Augusti Imperatoris nepos: Arati Phænomena, ex versione ejus.

Aratus, of Soli: Phænomena, ex versione Germanici Cæsaris cum vita Arati.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001984129

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not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-001984129

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Publications:

Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).

Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), p. 140-42, fig. 23.

M.D. Reeve, 'Hyginus,' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L.D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 188.

Katharina Glanz, Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2016), no. 120, pp. 760-63.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aratus, Soliensis, Greek didactic poet, c 315 BC - c 245 BC
Germanicus Caesar, army commander and nephew of the Emperor Tiberius, 15 BC-19
Hyginus, Caius Julius