Accession number:
MS M.384
Title:
Von dem Gang des Himels und Sternen
Created:
Rhineland, Germany, second half of the 15th century.
Binding:
Brown English calf, blind-tooled, ca. 1850; labeled: Varia curiosa.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description:
45 leaves (1 column, 34-35 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Owned by a member of the Ashdown or Aston family mid 19th century (bull's head crest embossed on fol. 1); Robert Brown, Jr. (owned in 1882); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. astrological compilation; written and decorated in the Rhineland, Germany, second half of the 15th century.
Attributed to Caspar Engelsüss or Michael Scot.
Leaves are numbered 197-241; after fol. 33 the layout of the text is 2 columns, 36-37 lines.
Decoration: 54 circular colored pen drawings.
Script:
cursive script
Language:
German
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