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Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 75r-76r
- Record Id:
- 042-001942377
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001919536
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000060.0x00011b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 75r-76r
- Title:
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Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus
- Scope & Content:
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Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus; a book of instructions for making talismans that was very popular in the Middle Age, and was translated by Adelard of Bath and by John of Spain. Begins imperfect in the middle of the third part of the tract, incipit: 'fuerit sol in aliqua dignitatum suarum. Et sculpes femora' explicit: 'quod exposui tibi si deus voluerit / Explicit Thebit de ymaginibus Deo gratia'. The text corresponds to v: 43-viii: 75 of the version published as 'version I' in F. J. Carmody, The Astronomical works of Thabit B. Qurra (Berkeley, 1960), pp. 187-94. Additional text from 'version II' (see Carmody, 1960. p. 192) added in the margin of f. 75v by a contemporary hand within a triangular frame.
Other copies in Royal MS 12 c. xviii (ff. 10v-12v), and Sloane MS 3883 (ff 87r- 93r).
Printed as Thebit, De tribus imaginibus magicis in Frankfurt in 1559.
Includes 'Sigilla Planetarum' in the lower margins of ff. 75v-76r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001919536
041-001919545
042-001942377 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 80 : Collection of texts on astronomy, optics, astrology and stones from a Merton College manuscript
Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v : Texts on astronomy and the making of talismans
Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 75r-76r : Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0079]/040-001919536[0003]/041-001919545[0001]/042-001942377
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- SubItem
- Extent:
- 2 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)