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| Part 1 |
ff. 2-49v |
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| Title |
Astronomical treatises (begins imperfectly) |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
last quarter of the 13th or 1st quarter of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
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| Decoration |
1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 28). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Spaces for initials (ff. 42v, 46v). Diagrams. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 110 (90 x 55) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 50-78v |
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| Title |
Astronomical tables |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
16th century |
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| Language |
French |
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| Script |
Cursive |
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| Decoration |
Not illuminated. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 110 (130 x 90) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 78 (+ 5 paper flyleavs at the beginning, and 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment and paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1984. |
| Provenance |
Inscription, 16th-century(?):' Will Keymes(?)' (f. 2).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 514. |
