Calendar

Accession number: 
MS B.12
Title: 
Calendar
Created: 
England, ca. 1425.
Binding: 
Quarter morocco.
Credit: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description: 
76 leaves (1 column, varying number of lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 147 x 112 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Jan. 1942 from E.P. Goldschmidt, London (cat. 65, no. 1).
Notes: 

Ms. written and decorated in England, ca. 1425.
Texts; John Somer, Kalendarium cum tabulis planetarum et eclipsium (1-32); Pseudo-Ptolemy, De significationibus septem planetarum, et capitis et caude draconis per 12 domos zodiaci ubi reperiuntur (34-50v); Peter of St.-Omer, Tractatus composicionis instrumenti ad inveniendum vera loca omnium planetarum (51-58v); Invocatio proprii angeli (59-61); De proporcionibus, in English (63-68v); Gerbertus, Epistola de proporcionibus, anonymous extracts in Latin on musical and harmonic theory (68v-76).
Decoration: 4 diagrams.

Script: 
textura and Gothic cursive
Language: 
Latin and Middle English
Century: 
Classification: