Accession number:
MS B.27
Title:
Medical and astronomical texts
Created:
Germany, between 1450 and 1475.
Binding:
Original blind-tooled quarter pigskin over wooden boards.
Credit:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description:
139 leaves (1 column, varying number of lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 207 x 145 mm.
Provenance:
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Feb. 1959 from William H. Schab, New York (Cat. 25, no. 152).
Notes:
Ms. medical and astronomical handbook; written and decorated in Germany in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Some of the tracts in the volume appear to be entirely unknown--Cf. PML files.
On fol. 31r is a depiction of Pythagoras as a mathematician.
Decoration: 2 colored drawings, 2 uncolored drawings, 14 diagrams.
Script:
Gothic cursive
Language:
Latin and German
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