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Sloane MS 3983
- Record Id:
- 040-002116376
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x0002b1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161520550.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3983
- Title:
- Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library, MS M.785 (c. 1403).
ff. 1r-49r: Georgius Zothorus Zaparus Fendulus, Liber astrologiae.
f. 49v: Treatise on the Nativity of Christ with a horoscope.
Decoration:
An incomplete picture cycle of 44 out of 48 full-page tinted drawings of the signs of the Zodiac and their paranatellonta, followed by a full picture cycle of 28 full-page tinted drawings of the planets in the four phases of their power and the respective zodiac signs associated with their houses.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002116376 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 3983 : Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[3998]/040-002116376
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161520550.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 186 mm.
Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 1 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Eustache de Wiltheim (b. 1600, d. 1667), historian of Luxembourg: his crossed out ownership inscription on f. 1r.
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753): purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which also established the British Museum.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 3833-4014 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 3983 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 8.
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des Hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), p. 181.
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), pp. 247-68.
Franz Boll, Carl Bezold, and Wilhelm Gundel, Sternglaube und Sterndeutung: Die Geschichte und das Wesen der Astrologie (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1977), fig. 15.
T.S. Pattie, Astrology as Illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum (London: British Library, 1980), pl. 7.
François Avril, Marie-Thérèse Gousset, and Claudia Rebel, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine italienne, (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1980- ), II: XIIIe siècle (1984), p. 161.
Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1990), fig. 33.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 51.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 19, pl. 13; p. 60, pl. 51.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 148.
Katharina Glanz, Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2016), No. 2, pp. 157-62.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)