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Almanac in German for 1479; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Woodcut banderole on top and border on left; three illustrations of an eclipse. Imperfect: stained and torn, subsequently repaired and mounted, with some loss of text.
89407
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Almanac for Nuremberg for the year 1487; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Imperfect: trimmed along edges, with loss of first 12 lines and some text along left edge. Printed in red and black. Includes two woodcut illustrations depicting lunar and solar eclipses.
89402
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Almanac in German for 1487; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Text begins: Im jar als man zalt nach Christi geburt M°cccc°lxxxvii° ... Woodcut banderole in top margin and woodcut border at left. Two astronomical illustrations. Imperfect: torn and repaired along previous center fold, with some loss of text. Previously mounted on a leaf.
89411
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Almanac in Latin for the year 1477; includes information on blood-letting. Imperfect: top half lacking; has only the last 29 lines out of 57 total. Fragment mounted.
89401
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ff. 1-218v. [Ptolemy]. [Almagest]. Incipit: Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est. Explicit: Finit dictio undecima almagesti ptolomei pheludiensis. Anno domini millesimo ducentesimo septuagesimo nono A littera dominicali anno cicli solaris undecimo bissextili tercio lunari quarto decemnovenali septimo concurrente quarto epacta 6 scriptus est liber....et abbreviationem arrogantiam et collaudationem. Item iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libri. Explicit almagesti. Latin. Other creator(s): Gerard of Cremona, translator. Text proceded by prologue ("Quidam princeps nomine albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum electionem et verborum nominavit pulchritudinem dixit...") and chapter list. Ptolemy, Syntaxis Mathematica or Almagest, in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, first printed in Venice by Petrus Liechtenstein, 1515. See Aristoteles Latinus 379; F. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Translation (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1956) 15; P. Kunitzsch, Der Almagest; Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolomäus in arabisch-lateinischer überlieferung (Wiesbaden 1974), this manuscript cited pp. 91, 384. Frequent marginalia in a contemporary hand, possibly that of the scribe; occasional fifteenth century marginalia which may be in the hand of Pier Leoni (e.g. ff. 20, 24, 40, 52v). ff. 219-270v; f. 271r-v blank. [Astronomical tables]. Latin. Twenty astronomical tables connected to the appropriate places in the text by tie marks. A version of the 14th table, ff. 241-258, the"tabula stellarum fixarum," printed in C. H. F. Peters and E. B. Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars, A Revision of the Almagest (Washington 1915) 27-50; due to error in Gerard of Cremona's translation (Peters and Knobel, 14), the latitudes of 60 and odd degrees have been rendered as 300 and odd degrees (here, ff. 242, 243r-v); those on f. 242 have been corrected in a near contemporary hand.
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Collection of medical works by various authors such as Galen, Avicenna, Joannitius, Theophilus Protospatharios, Hippocrates and Gentilis de Fulgineo. Contents (from t.p.): Primo est liber Ioannitij qui dicitur isagoge in Greco. Secundo libellus de pulsibus philareti. Tertio est libellus Theophili de vrinis. Quarto sunt Hyppocratis aphorismi in ordinem collecti. Quinto sunt aphorismi eiusdem cum commento Galieni. Sexto liber pronosticorum cum translatione noua [et] antiqua. Septimo liber regiminis acutorum continens quatuor particulas. Octauo est liber epidimiarum Hyp. cum co[m]me[n]to .viij. particulas co[n]tinens. Nono est libellus Hyp. qui i[n]titulatur de natura fetus. Decimo liber Galieni qui dicitur tegni siue ars parua. Undecimo libellus Gentilis de Fulgineo de diuisione [et]c. Duodecimo libellus de lege Hyp. [et] libellus qui dicitur iusiurandum. Edited by Gregorius a Vulpe. Full colophon reads: Impressum Uenetijs: per Ioa[n]nem [et] Gregorium de Gregoijs fratres. Anno intemerate Uirginis conceptio millesimo quingentesimo: benedictione omnipotentis dei: q[ue] est b[e]n[e]dictus in secula seculo[rum]. Ame[n]. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in two columns, with commentary surrounding the main text; woodcut initials at the beginning of new sections. Signatures: pi² [superscript pi]a⁶ a-r⁸ A-E⁸ F-G⁶ (G6 blank). Printer's device on verso of leaf G5. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf G6) lacking. Binding: 18th century calf.
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