Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.122

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  • Other label of the document :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.122
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.122
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.122
    • Wellcome Library, MS.122
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 35 leaves (first & last 2 blank). 4to. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. Modern vellum binding. A leaf has been cut out after the end of the text.

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  • Written in a neat humanistic hand. Illustrated with 38 well executed pen drawings of constellations, etc., the stars in red. The manuscript is foliated 120r-153v, so it was originally part of a larger work. The illustrations are mostly in the style of the printed editions of Manilius, Hyginus and Aratus.

    f. 121r Aetherios orbis, subiectaque templa deorum / Musa cane, atque uias semper uoluentis olimpi / ... 153v Qui nunc astrorum motus subiectaque diuum / Templa cano atque uias semper uoluentes olimpi.

  • This poem was dedicated to Sigismondo Pandulfo Malatesta [1417-1468]. According to Tiraboschi 'Storia della letteratura Italiana'. Vol VI, Part I, p. 896, it was written in 1454-1456. Cf. also B. Soldati 'La poesia astrologica nel quattrocento', Florence. 1906. Cap. I, pp. 74-104.
  • Purchased 1923.

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  • Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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