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Detailed record for Sloane 3983
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| Author |
Georgius Fendulus |
| Title |
Liber astrologiae |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
Numerous coloured drawings throughout. |
| Dimensions in mm |
270 x 180 (210 x 140) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 49 + 1* (+ 1 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Gold-tooled red leather; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Inscribed, 16th-century(?): 'Ex libris Eustachij Wiltheim' (f. 1*).
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. |
| Notes |
ff. 9-11 misbound, originally after f. 23. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 3833-4014 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 3983 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 8.
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des Hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), p. 181.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), pp. 247-68.
Franz Boll, Carl Bezold, and Wilhelm Gundel, Sternglaube und Sterndeutung: Die Geschichte und das Wesen der Astrologie (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1977), fig. 15.
T.S. Pattie, Astrology as Illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum (London: British Library, 1980), pl. 7.
François Avril, Marie-Thérèse Gousset, and Claudia Rebel, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine italienne, (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1980- ), II: XIIIe siècle (1984), p. 161.
Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1990), fig. 33.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 51.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 19, pl. 13; p. 60, pl. 51.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 148.
Katharina Glanz, Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2016), No. 2, pp. 157-62. |
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f. 1
Coloured initials |
f. 3v
Aries |
f. 5
Blacksmiths |
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f. 6
Taurus |
f. 7
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f. 7v
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f. 8v
Gemini |
f. 10
Man in a boat |
f. 10v
Camel |
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f. 11
Animals |
f. 12
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ff. 12v-13
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ff. 13v-14
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f. 14
Cancer |
f. 14v
Detail |
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f. 15
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f. 16v
Leo |
f. 18
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f. 19v
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f. 22
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f. 23
Virgo |
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f. 23
Scorpio |
f. 24
Capricorn |
f. 24v
Detail of a standing woman. |
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f. 25
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f. 25v
Detail of a standing woman. |
f. 26v
Aquarius |
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f. 29v
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f. 30
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f. 30v
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f. 32
House of Saturn |
f. 34v
House of Jupiter |
f. 34v
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f. 37
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f. 37v
Mars |
f. 39v
House of the Sun |
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ff. 41v-42
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ff. 42v-43
Venus |
ff. 42v-43
Venus |
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f. 45
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