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Harley MS 1720
- Record Id:
- 040-001616279
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001616279
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x00024f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1720
- Title:
- Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001616279", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1720: Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001616279 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1720 : Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1722]/040-001616279
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 274 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1720 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1570
- End Date:
- 1596
- Date Range:
- c 1575-1596
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm (text space: 255 x 195 mm).
Foliation: ff. 274 (plus four blank paper endleaves at the beginning and two at the end).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding with tooled decoration.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Valentine Otho (b. 1550, d. 1596), mathematician, pupil of George Joachim Rheticus who in 1596 published Rheticus's Opus Palatinum de triangulis: copied by him (see inscription below).
Jakob Christmann (b. 1554, d, 1613), orientalist and astronomer, dean of the faculty of arts at Heidelberg University, Palatinate: inherited by him with library of G. J. Rheticus, which had been in Otho's keeping (see J. J.Verdonk, Christmann, Jacob in: Dictionary of scientific biography 16 vols (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970–1980), III (1971), p. 262), and given by him to Heidelberg University in 1603, inscribed 'Canonem mathematicum operis Palatini manuscriptum labore M. Valentini Othonis concinatum, et a posesore recuperatum, speculae mathematicae, que est in contubernio Academiae Heidelbergensis tradidit M. Iar. Christmannus Decanus Facultatis Artium ann 1603 die 19 Decembris. RG ' (f. 1r).
Henry Worsley (d. 1747), 2nd son of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd baronet of Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight, acquired from him for the Harley Collection (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II, no. 1720.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 361.
Denis Roegel, 'A Reconstruction of the Tables of Rheticus' Opus Palatinum (1596)', The Loria Collection of Mathematical Tables, http://locomat.loria.fr/rheticus1596/rheticus1596doc.pdf [accessed 9 December 2014].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)