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Harley MS 3702

Record Id:

040-002049534

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049534

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

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 'Daneko' ('secundum daneko in almanach' or 'in alamanach secundum danekoc'); in the lower margins the years '1439' and '1445'.

ff. 46r-47v: Collection of short astronomical tracts, beginning: 'ad inveniendum vera loca trium planetarum superiorum secundum almanach', with (added) attributions to the Prophets ('secundum Judei prophatij'); and 'Daneko' ('secundum danako [danacho]').

ff. 47v-48r: Book II.4 of Ptolemy, Quadripartitum, entitled: 'Que regiones quibus signis subdantur'.

ff. 48r-49r: Astronomical tracts and tables related to the previous item, one of which is attributed to John of Seville ('Item aliter de eadem ex libello Johannis hyspalensis').

f. 49r: An astronomical tract, entitled: 'De modo reformandi radices omni anno ex tabula annorum collectorum et expansorum'; followed by a table.

ff. 49v-50r: Astronomical tables relating to the Moon, beginning: 'Per hanc tabulam poteris scire medium motum lune'.

f. 50r: A circular diagram with indications for 'fortunata' and 'vera infortunata' at its cardinal points.

f. 50v: A tract, beginning: 'Canon ad sciendum medium et verum motum lune omni die et hora perpetue quae practica est satis difficilis pro ignorantibus'.

f. 51r: A lunar table, beginning: 'Per hanc tabulam poteris scire medium motum lune'.

ff. 51v-53r: 'Tabula coniunctionis solis et lune ad annos [?] po[n]itus', 1435-1461.

f. 53v: A table of solar eclipses ('Hic sequitur Eclipsis Solis'), 1436-1461.

f. 53v: A table of lunar eclipses ('Eclipsis lune'), 1436-151.

ff. 53v-54r: An astronomical tract, beginning: 'Ad veniendum locum lune'.

ff. 54v-57r: Calendar, with 2 columns (one for each month) per page; including Lambert of Maastricht and Remigius of Reims.

Decoration:

Large (2-3 line) initials in red ink. Capitals (1 line) highlighted in red. Rubrics and paraphs in red.

Tables in black and red ink throughout. A circular diagram drawn in red ink with text in black ink on f. 50r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049534

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3702 : Astronomical tracts and tables; calendar

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3704]/040-002049534

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1466

Date Range:

c 1435-c 1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205-210 x 140-150 mm.

Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iii]recto.

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1968. The previous covers (blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown leather) are pasted on the inside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany.

Provenance:

The Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues, on the Moselle (Germany): inscribed with its note of ownership on f. 1r: 'liber hospitalis sancti Nicolai prope Cusa' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 120-21).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: probably sold to the Harleys together with other Cues manuscripts in 1717/18 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254)

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 Cavendish, née 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 53.

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 120-21, 254.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168

Places:

Germany