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Add MS 24070
- Record Id:
- 032-002031361
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- 032-002031361
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003aa
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- Add MS 24070
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Astronomical tables, by Johannes de Gmunden, etc., viz.:-
1. "Kalendarium cum suis canonibus et tabulis compositum Wyenne [Vienna] per Magistrum Johannem de Gmunden Canonicum Eclesie sancti Stephani ibidem et plebanum in Laa, Anno 1439," f. 1 b.
2. Tables of the position of the sun, and of the equations, semidiameters, declinations, latitudes, etc., of the sun, moon, and planets, composed at Vienna 1436, by Johannes Firminus; with canons, f. 8.
3. "Canon tabule tabularum edite a magistro Johanne de Muris Anno Domini 1321, etc., et scriptus ac finitus per Georium Prunner de Inferiori Ruspach Anno Domini 1436o;" followed by similar canons by Johannes de Gmunden, ff. 64, 67 b.
4. Tables of sines, ascensional differences, elevations, equations of the houses for the latitude of Vienna; lunar aspects, latitudes and eclipses of the moon, longitudes of the fixed stars (giving their names in Arabic and Latin), latitudes and longitudes of various places in the world (including Paradise), followed by explanations of the use of the tables, f. 70. Vellum; written in the years 1436-1439. On the first page is the following note: "Præsens iste liber et sex magna lignea instrumenta astronomicalia rotundæ figuræ theoricis atque motibus planetarum deseruiencia cum suo reseruaculo, armario scilicet quadrato quod pro commodosa memoratorum instrumentorum conseruacione sex distincta continet receptacula, in die Sancti Martini Anno 1469 currente empta sunt ad facultatem arcium in decanatu Magistri Joannis Rout dicti Veyhinger de Pforczhein a Venerabili uiro domino Georgio Prunner de inferiori Ruspach præsbitero patauiens[is] dioceseos pro 24 florenis Vngaricalibus, super quibus habetur cedula recognicionis quæ in archa Decani posita est." Quarto.
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Georgius Prunner, de Inferiori Ruspach: Astronomical treatises: 1436, 1438.
Manuscripts, Dated (to A.D. 1500) Latin and Modern Languages: MSS: AD 919 - AD 1500.
Johannes de Gmunden, Canonicus S Stephani Viennensis: Tractatus astronomici: 1436-1439.
Astronomy: Tabulæ et computationes astronomicæ: 15th cent.
includes:
- ff. 8-63 John Firmin: Regulæ astronomicæ: 15th cent.
- f. 64 Johannes de Muris, Canon of Notre Dame: Canon tabulæ astronomicae: 1321.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002031361
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1436
- End Date:
- 1439
- Date Range:
- 1436-1439
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Firmin, John, astronomer, fl 1436
Gmunden, Johann, astronomer, mathematician and Canon of St Stephen's Cathedral, c 1380-1442
Muris, Johannes, Canon of Notre Dame
Prunner, Georgius, de Inferiori Ruspach