
Raccolta di links che rimandano ad opere antiche digitalizzate sull'astrolabio
Idea e realizzazione di Nicola Severino
I links sono organizzati in ordine alfabetico per autore.
Sono presenti, con qualche rara eccezione, solo opere antiche sull'astrolabio.
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Abraham, Ibn Ezra, De nativitatibus, Venezia, 1485
http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=B19076046&idioma=0
or
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/91372729656804729754491/index.htm
Accursius de Parma, Astrolabium sphaericum compositum anno domini 1303. Dominus Accursius de Parma fuit principium huius operis, sec. XIV. manoscritto della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, sec. XIV. Link for searching : http://teca.bmlonline.it/TecaRicerca/index.jsp word “astrola*”. See below at the end of this list.
Aguilera Juan, Canones astrolabii universalis, secundo aediti, Salamantice, 1554
http://fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/1021/11/canones-astrolabii-universalis-secundo-aediti/
Ammonii philosophi, De usu astrolabi, manoscritto della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, sec. XIV. Link for searching : http://teca.bmlonline.it/TecaRicerca/index.jsp word “astrola*”.
Angelus Johannes, Astrolabium, Augustae, 1488
http://bvpb.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=11003378
edition manuscript 1494 at Gallica:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k591202
Alcabitius, Liber de utilitate astrolabii, manoscritto della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, sec. XIV. Link for searching : http://teca.bmlonline.it/TecaRicerca/index.jsp word “astrola*”.
Alfonso X re di Castiglia, Libros del saber de Astronomia.
http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=B18550071&idioma=0
Anonimo, Canones Astrolabii, Venetiis, Paganinus de Paganini, 1497-1498. Incunabulo della Biblioteca de Andalucia.
Anonimo, Tractatus de Astrolabio. De Temporum ratione. Secolo XI, manoscritto RIPOLL 225 della Collezione dei manoscritti della Corona de Aragon.
Anonimo, Astronomia teutsch, Francoforte, 1592
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00024787/images/
Anonimo, Astronomische Zeichnungen, Wien, 1508-1520
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00020752/images/
Anonimo, Arte de hazer reloxes, tratado del astrolabio, XVII sec.
http://bvpb.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=11000631
Anonimo, Miscellany: Astronomy, Paper , ff. iii + 73 + iii,; 212 x 155 mm. , Germany (?), 15th century, late or early 16th century, Latin; The manuscript contains various treatises, descriptions of instruments, illustrations, diagrams and tables.
http://laurentius.ub.lu.se/volumes/Mh_47/
Anonimo, Instroductorium Astrolabii, Augsburg, 1527
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00027882/images/
Apiano Pietro, Astronomicum Caesareum, Ingolstadii, 1540
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00008509/images/
Argyri Isaac, methodus faciendi astrolabicum instrumentum, 1300-1400 manoscritto della Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana, coll. Plutei. Carte 279-290 (Johannes Philoponi and Isaac Argyri).
Battink Rudolf, Nova quaedam & compendiosa usus Astrolabii methodus ..., Paris, 1557
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186714-5
Edition 1558
Bion Nicolas, L’usage des astrolabes, Paris, 1702
or Gallica document:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5541382h
Blagrave John, Astrolabium uranicum generale, London, 1596
http://adrastea.ugr.es/record=b1420899~S2*spi
Blagrave John, An apollogie confirmation explanation and addition to the Vranicall astrolabe, London 1597
http://adrastea.ugr.es/record=b1412928~S2*spi
Blagrave John, The mathematical iewel, London 1585
http://adrastea.ugr.es/record=b1552808~S2*spi
Bottens Fulgentius, Magnum et universale astrolabium…1712
Bornmann Zacharias, Astrolabium tetragonum, Breslaw, 1595
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00022009/images/
Edition 1584
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00024453/images/
Edition 1597
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn267474237
Bruni Teofilo, Novo planisferio o astrolabio universale. Vicenza 1625
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10052786-4
or: http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=958349
Catena Petrus, Astrolabii quo primi mobilis motu deprehenditur Canones, Padova, 1549
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186716-7
or: http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=958460
Chaucer Geoffrey, Treatise on the Astrolabe, edited by Andrew Edmund Brae, London 1870
Claude A., Driencourt. L., Description et usage de l'astrolabe à prisme, Paris, 1910
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94856m
Clavius Christophoro, Astrolabium, Roma, 1593
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10164518-1
or http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=338671
or
or
http://fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/1638/11/christophori-clauii-astrolabium/
Colb Kaspar, Astrolabii instrumenti geometricique tabulae auctiores, Coloniae 1532
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1687073~S3*spi
Copp Johann, Erklärung unnd gründtliche Underweysung alles nutzes, so in dem edlen Instrument Astrolabium genannt, begriffen, 1525
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00021960/images/
Copp Johann, Wie man diss hochberümpt astronomischer un[d] geometrischer kunst Instrume[n]t Astrolabium brauchen soll. Bamberg, 1525
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn266123228
Copp Johann, Astrolabium, 1597
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00021021/images/
Danti Egnazio, Trattato dell’uso et della fabrica dell’astrolabio, Firenze, 1569
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300081
Danti Egnazio, Primo volume dell’vso et fabrica dell’astrolabio et del planisfero, Firenze, 1578
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300146 (only drawings)
complete edition at
Dechales Milliet Claudius Franciscus / T. 3 / Complectens Mvsicam, Pyrotechniam, Astrolabia, Gnomonicam, Astronomiam, Kalendarium, Astrologiam, Algebram, indiuisibilium methodum, aliásque… Lugduni : Anisson, 1674
http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/sch-m-2f-4-3/start.htm%20
Di Negro Andalò, Practica astrolabii, reprint, 1984 by Anna Maria Cesari
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=354422
Engel Johann, Astrolabium planum in tabulis, Augsburg, 1488
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00026866/images/
edition 1494:
http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k591202
Finaeus Orontius, Quadrans astrolabicus, Paris, 1534
http://bvpb.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=11002494
or http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1688058~S3*spi
Focard Jacques, Paraphrase de l’astrolabe, Lyon, 1546
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186727-2
or
Gallucci Giovanni Paolo, Della fabrica et uso di diuersi stromenti di astronomia et cosmografia, 1598
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300043
Gemma Frisij, De astrolabio catholico, Antverpiae, 1556
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObrasExternas?idAuto=46245
Gerberti (Aurillac, Papa Silvestro II).
Astrolabio. Manoscritto
ff. 53v-56: treatise on the construction of the
astrolabe: fPhilosophi qui sapienter motus secundum [sic, for siderum] cuncta
firmamenti`F (see Vallicrossa, pp. 293-95). This is an Ottoman manuscript of a
major tenth-century secular text on mathematics, geometry and on the
construction of the astrolabe. The small format of this manuscript is unusual
for this date and region, and may indicate that the manuscript was produced to
be used as a portable school text, perhaps in one of the monastic schools of the
area. Gerbert (Aurillac c. 930-40 died as Pope Sylvester II in 1003). Gerbert of
Aurillac has long been recognized as the principal intellectual figure of the
tenth Century. (Saenger, Space between Words, p. 143). He was a close proteg of
Otto I (Holy Roman Emperor 962-73), was master of the Cathedral school at Theims,
abbot of Bobbio, abbot of Rheims, archbishop of Ravenna, and in 999 pope (he was
the first French pope). D.E. Smith, calls him "that remarkable churchman and
scholar, Gerbert, one of the greatest popes that ever added lustre to the papal
throne" (History of Mathematics, I (1923), p. 195). "The chronicler Richer
asserts that he taught the complete Logica Vetus in the school of Rheims; if
this is so, Gerbert was the first master in Europe to use a substantial part of
the logical works of Aristotle and Boethius" (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church (1974), p. 1330) together with the commentaries of Porphyry, Cicero and
pseudo-Apuleius. fWith Gerbert, practical number work (logistics) for the first
time gained equal status with theoretical number work (arithmetic) as a subject
of formal advanced teaching. He developed speed in arithmetical operations
through his revival of the use of the abacus and his introduction from Spain of
the 9 Hindu-Arabic numerals (without zero)`For two hundred years after GerbertFs
time the abacists reigned supremeF (H. Lattin, The Letters of Gerbert (1969), p.
19).
Description:
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljs/view.cfm?option=view&MANID=ljs194
Link to manuscript astrolabe page:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.4/3426.21426
Heck Johann, Constructio Horari plani,
manoscritto in Miscellanea Johannis Heckii belge, 1600.
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=949824
Hedraeus Benedictus, Nova et accurata astrolabii geometrici structura, 1643
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10080761-3
or: http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300898 (only drawings)
or:
or
Hermannus Contractus, De utilitatibus Astrolabii libri duo, Sec. XII
http://www.flaez.ch/hermannus/astrolab2.html
Hermannus Contractus, De mensura astrolabi liber, sec. XII
http://www.flaez.ch/hermannus/astrolab.html
Koebel Jacob, Astrolabii declaratio, Paris, 1550
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186723-6
or
edition 1552: http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=959617
Edition 1532:
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1687079~S3*spi
Koeman C. the Astrolabium Catholicum, Coimbra, 1980
Krabbe Johannes, Neues Astrolabium samt dessen Nutzen, 1630
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10052946-9
or mirror http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn273274368
Edition 1609
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn267914105
Jacquinot Dominique, L’usage de l’Astrolabe, Paris, 1617
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10080798-3
Edition 1619
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10080799-3
edition 1558
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186720-3
edition 1545
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1653027~S3*spi
Jacquinot Dominiqe, L’usage de l’une et de l’autre astrolabe, 1625
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=960699
Johannes Philoponi. De usu astrolabii eiusque constructione libellus, ed. 1839
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10237113-3
Johannes Philoponi, De usu astrolabii, manoscritto greco della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Periodo 1300-1400. carte 279-290
Link di ricerca (for searching) http://teca.bmlonline.it/TecaRicerca/index.jsp (word searching “astrolabicum”).
Lansberge Philip van, Sphaera Plana, à Ptolomaeo Astrolabium dicta, in Opera Omnia, 1663
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=3684452
Melzi d’Erilò Camillo, IL trattato dell’astrolabio di Pietro Peregrino da Maricourt, 1906
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=361470
Mesmes (de) Jean Pierre, Traité de la composition et fabrique de l'astrolabe et de son usage : avec les préceptes de mesures géométriques ([Reprod.]) / le tout traduit du latin de Iean Stofler de Iustingence ; avecque annotations,... par Iean-Pierre de Mesmes, 1560
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k525465
Metius Adriaan, Astrolabii particularis et catholici descriptio, Amsterdam, 1632
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10053003-5
Metius Adriaan, Doctrinae Sphaericae Lib. V.|| I. De apparentiis et phaenomenis primi mobi-||lis.|| II. De situ cuiuslibet stellae in coelo, quomodo ex || globo deprehendi debeat.|| III. De obseruatione astrorum et motuũ coe-||lestium per Astrolabium. 1598
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:1-112963
Metius Adriaan, astrolabium, hoc est astrolabii utiusque accurata descriptio eorundem fabricam usumque in astronomia & geographia ...1626
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10080935-5
or
Metius Adriaan, Wilelm Bleau. Primum Mobile, astronomice, sciographice, geometrice…Amsterdam, 1633.
Contiene un capitolo sull’astrolabio.
http://books.google.it/books/download/Adriani_Metii_____Primum_mobile__astrono.pdf?id=gLZbAAAAQAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2x9XKCSrfh50qK5NUis5wCzgMm1Q
Moya Perez (de), Obra intitulada
fragmentos mathematicos : en que se tratan cosas de geometria y astronomia y
geographia y philosophia natural y sphera y astrolabio y nauegacion y reloxes,
1568.
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1691516~S3*spi
Ocana, Francisco de, Uso del Astrolabio del P. Clavio, 1637
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObrasExternas?idAuto=51208
Padovani Giovanni. Viridarium mathematicorum, 1563
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300252
Penther Johann Frederick, Praxis Geometriae : worinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Faelle, mit Staeben, den Astrolabio, der Boussole und der Mensul... treulich communiciret werden, 1761
Poblacion Juan Martinez, De usu astrolabii compendium, Lutetia, 1553
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186734-4
or
Edition 1527:
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1577976~S3*spi
Edition 1546
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1578018~S3*spi
Rechperger Guilielmus, Astrolabivm, Augustae Vindelicorum, 1611
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn265641179
Regiomontanus Johannes, Georg von Peuerbach, Joachim Helle, Scripta clarissimi mathematici, Norimberga, 1544
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn26682921X
Regnard, Valérien, Astrolabiorum seu utriusque planisphaerii ... usus (1613)
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10053063-5
edition 1610
Reisch Gregor, Margarita Philosophica nova, 1512
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00013105/images/
Ritter Franz, Astrolabium Das ist: Gründliche Beschreibung und Unterricht, wie solches herrliche und hochnützliche Astronomische Instrument, 1613
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10053076-7
Edition 1660
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10053090-7
or http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn278458203
Ritter Franz, De usu astrolabii, Poster Ior Pars, Norimberga, 1613
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn278146635
Edition Norimberga 1660:
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn278459803
Roesslin Eucharius, Calender, mit Underrichtung astronomischer wirckungen…Francoforte, 1547
http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/202-30-quod-4/start.htm
Rojas Sarmiento Juan de, Commentariorum in Astrolabium libri sex, Lutetia, 1550
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10164534-0
Edition 1551
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10164535-3
or http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=300206 (only drawings)
Edition 1551 complete
Sarrus, Pierre Frédéric (1852) Description d'un astrolabe construit à Maroc en l'an 1208. Imprimerie de Ve. Berger-Levrault.
http://imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/displayimage.php?pos=-323003
Stempel Gerhard, Utriusque astrolabii tam particularis quam universalis fabrica et usus, 1602
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10053145-8
or
Stoeffler Johannes, Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii
Edition 1513
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00018640/images/
0r http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1651298~S3*spi
Edition Oppenheim, 1524
http://fondotesis.us.es/fondos/libros/289/10/elucidatio-fabricae-ususque-astrolabii/
Or http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1590074~S3*spi
Edition, Lutetia, 1553
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186736-1
or
http://fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/930/11/elucidatio-fabricae-ususque-astrolabii/
Edition 1560 translated:
Traité de la composition et fabrique de l'astrolabe et de son usage : avec les préceptes de mesures géométriques ([Reprod.]) / le tout traduit du latin de Iean Stofler de Iustingence ; avecque annotations,... par Iean-Pierre de Mesmes.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k525465
Edition 1564
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186737-8
Another better 1513 edition:
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn264823915
Edition 1585
http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=395384
or
Edition 1594
http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10186738-1
or
Stoeffler Johannes/Peter Jordan. Coelestium Rerum Disciplinae. Coloniae, 1535
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274213974
or http://fermi.imss.fi.it/rd/bdv?/bdviewer/bid=302072 (only drawings)
Stoeffler Johannes, Von Künstlicher Abmessung aller grösse, ebene oder nidere, in die lenge, höhe, breite unnd tieffe, als gräben, Cisternen und brunnen ... mit eim Astrolabio und Quadranten oder Meßleiter ...Francoforte, 1536
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn264850645
Simmaco Quinto Aurelio, Symmachi senatoris Romani, Epistolae familiares & elegantissimae nunquam alias impressae / & nouiter per Bartholomaeum Cynischum Amerinum ab inferis pene reuocatae. Quae Procopius historicus graecus scribat de Symmacho a Theodorico Gottorum rege iniuste necato. In calce Epistolarum nonnulli tractatus vtilissimi impressi sunt. Tractatus de mensura astrolabij. Tractatus de statu mundi. Mensura de horologio. Ad inueniendum cuiuslibet rei altitudinem. Argumentum quomodo magnitudo terrae deprehendenda sit. De gnomonica institutione & umbrarum discursu. Quotiens in leuca rotetur rota.
http://brumario.usal.es/record=b1591315~S3*spi
Tanner Robert, A mirror for mathematiques [Recurso electrónico] : A golden gem for geometricians: a sure saftey for saylers, and an auncient antiquary for astronomers and astrologians. Contayning also an order howe to make an astronomicall instrument, called the astrolab, vvith the vse thereof. London 1587
http://adrastea.ugr.es/record=b1419713~S2*spi

RARE IMAGES FROM MANUSCRIPTS AT DIGITAL SCRIPTORIUM:
1 Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Eng 0920
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Bibliography: Bond and Faye, 228; Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 33, no. 1 (1985): p.39; Derek J. de Solla Price, Report on Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe, Houghton Library MS Eng 920.1
Part 1. ff. 1-37v England s. XIV2
Folios: ff. 1-37v — Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the astrolabe
Title: Treatise on the astrolabe
2 Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ
0043
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Part 1. ff. 1-237v Austria s. XV1
Folios: ff. 179-188 — Accursius of Parma, Astrolabium sphaericum
Title: Astrolabium sphaericum
Folios: ff. 191-212 — Astrolabium graece acceptatio
Title: Astrolabium graece acceptatio
3 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Incunable A-1171
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Part 1. Fragment Italy s. XI
Notes: Survives as (modern ?) binding to Astrolabii canones, printed in Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, ca. 1497-98 (GKW 2759).
4 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Plimpton MS 175
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Part 1. ff. 1-180v Germany s. XV1
Folios: ff. 158-166 — Prosdocimo dei Beldomandi, Compositio astrolabii et operatio
Title: Compositio astrolabii et operatio
Folios: ff. 166-177v; ff. 177v-180v short texts and charts — Christianus de Prachaticz, Astrolabii canones perutiles
Title: Astrolabii canones perutiles
5 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Plimpton MS 180
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Part 3. ff. 32-43 Italy s. XV/XVI
Folios: ff. 32-43 — Astrological and astronomical treatises
Caption: f. 32 Astrolabe.
6 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Plimpton MS 254
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Part 1. ff. 1-27v England s. XV
Folios: ff. 12-24v — Geoffrey Chaucer, Tractatus astrolabii
Title: Tractatus astrolabii
7 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Smith Western Add. MS 06
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Part 1. ff. 1-163 Italy s. XIII2
Folios: ff. 29-44 — Maslama al mayriti of Cordova, De astrolabio; John of Seville, translator
Title: De astrolabio
Rubric: Incipit liber in scientia et opere astrolabii 40 in se continens capitula. Capitulum primum inventione astrolabii et nominum super idem cadentium.
Incipit: Primum horum est armilla super quem suspenditur astrolabium
Explicit: Et ex hoc quod diximus scitur quantum transierit de annis christi ex annis arabum si deus voluerit. Explicit liber operis astrolabii editione abileacim de macherit. qui dicitur Almacherita.
Folios: ff. 44v-47 — John of Seville, De constitutione astrolabii
Title: De constitutione astrolabii
Explicit: Secundum quod exemplar eas in astrolabii notabis regula. Cuius hec est figura.
8 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Smith Western Add. MS 09
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Part 1. ff. 1-119 France s. XVI2
Folios: ff. 95-106 — Treatise on the astrolabe
Title: Treatise on the astrolabe
9 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Smith Western Add. MS 14
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Part 1. ff. 1-15v Switzerland s. XVI2
Folios: ff. 1-8v — De usu astrolabii
Title: De usu astrolabii
Folios: ff. 8v-15; f. 15v blank — Wolfgang Meyer, Encomium quoddam in usum astrologii ...
Caption: ff. 8v-9 Encomium of the astrolabe, ". . . Compositum a me Wolfgango Meiero atque recitatum Basil. 23 Augusti A. 1595."
10 New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, X522.D34
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Part 1. ff. 1-116v Italy? s. XVI2
Folios: ff. 41v-54 — Tractatus de astrolabio
Title: Tractatus de astrolabio
Folios: ff. 54v-64 — De quadrante
Caption: f. 59 Diagram of an astrolabe.
11 New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
Library, MS 2611
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Part 1. ff. 1-234v England s. XVI2/4
Folios: ff. 151-214; f. 214v blank — Astrolabium planum
Title: Astrolabium planum
Caption: f. 151 Astrolabium planum in English.
12 New York, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and
Archives Division, NYPL MA 069
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Part 1. ff. 1-141v + i France s. XIIImed
Folios: ff. 80-113; f. 114r-v blank — Johannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera
Caption: f. 80 Historiated initial of a seated man holding an astrolabe.
13 New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection,
NYPL Spencer 051
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Part 1. ff. 1-306v Germany s. XV4/4
Folios: ff. 116-139v — Abraham ibn Ezra, De nativitatibus
Incipit: Dixit quoque abraham iudeus Optimum instrumentorum ad inveniendum gradum orientem in nativitatibus est astrolabium
Folios: ff. 131-139v; ff. 139v-147v with tables or blank — Henry Bate, Magistralis compositio astrolabii
Title: Magistralis compositio astrolabii
Rubric: Magistralis compositio astrolabii henrici bate ad petitionem fratris Uuilhelmi de morbeka ordinis predicatorum domini pape penitentiarii et Capellani
Caption: f. 131 Opening of Magistralis compositio astrolabii.
Folios: ff. 148-205v — Tables in 3 parts; Calendar
Rubric: Astrolabium planum in tabulis
Caption: f. 148 Opening of Astrolabium planum in tabulis.
Folios: ff. 257v-258 — Johannes Angeli, Opus astrolabii plani
Title: Opus astrolabii plani
Explicit: Opus Astrolabii plani in tabulis a Iohanne Angeli a novo elaboratum explicit feliciter.
14 San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 27523
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Part 1. France s. XV1
15 San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 39465
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Part 1. England s. XVmed
Folios: ff. 20-30 — Messahala, De operatione vel utilitate astrolabii
Title: De operatione vel utilitate astrolabii
Rubric: Hic incipit practica Astrolabii; Explicit practica Astrolabii R. E.
16 San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 60320
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Provenance: The present two texts originally written separately: the parent volume consisted of several parts, mostly concerning astrology (including Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe), of various dates of the second half of the s. XV and of s. XVI. James Alleyn, s. XVI, with his signature on f. iii of the parent volume, according to the 1983 catalog description. The marquises of Bute, of Luton, Bedfordshire, and Eccleston Square, London, by 1872; formerly part of their MS 13 (A. 19); the individual texts of the present volume numbered "X" and "XI" in pencil in the upper left corner of their first rectos; Bute sale at Sotheby’s, 13 June 1983, lot 32, bought by Kraus, and dismembered; one part (Kraus no. R2411; "VIII" in upper corner) sold by them to R. Stanitz and now (2008) in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg collection, LJS 191; the present piece (Kraus no. R2428), acquired by the Huntington through the Collector’s Council, January 2000.
17 San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 732
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Binding: Bound in contemporary yellow pasteboards. On front cover: “Wie das Astrolabium zuemachen 1608.”
Part 1. Germany 1608
Folios: pp. 1-54v —
Rubric: Wie man den Limbus oder Vmschweiff des Astrolabiums machen sol. Das.1. Capitel
Explicit: Hie ist nun das gantze Apianische Astrolabium mit seinen von Capiteln zu Capitel angezaigten vnnd Beschriebenen Circuln vnnd Lieniamenten zu mehrerm verstand des Lasers gantz zusammen gesetzt sich vorerzeltes alles notturffting haben zu ersehen.

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