Document Details Horologium Amicorum - Emmanuel Poulle: L'Astrarium de Giovanni Dondi:
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- Title: Horologium Amicorum - Emmanuel Poulle: L'Astrarium de Giovanni Dondi
SubTitle: [Facsiline du manuscrit " Tractatus Astrarium " de Padoue, Bigliotheque capitulaire, ms D.39] - Author: Emmanuel Poulle, dall'orologio, Giovanni deDondi
- Publisher: Ecole nationale des Chartes, Paris
Keywords: facsimile astronomical specific
Other Keywords: astrarium planetarium orrery Dondi
ISBN: 2 900791 16 2
Language: FRE LAT
Notes: This is a high resolution, color facsimile edition of the ca. 1364 illustrated latin manuscript in the Padua Library of 66 leaves called "Tractatus Astrarium" by the Padua physician Giovanni de Dondi dall'orologgio . (Original is BHM 7014) There are two slightly different original contrmporary texts by de Dondi describing the same artifact. [The other one -original in Venice- was transcribed into English by Baillie, Lloyd and Ward and published by AHS as BHM 2897] The one reproduced here is at the Biblioteca Capitolar in Padua (Italy) under Catalog Number "ms D 39". [15th or 16th century copies of the Padua manuscript exist in the Ambrosiana 9C.139), and the Museo Civico of Padua (CM 631): This facsimile edition was produced to honor the election of emmanuel Poule (scholar of medival scientific instruments) to the l'academie des inscriptions et belles lettres by his friends.
Edition: 1998 -- Copyright: 1364
Kind: Book
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: Italy
Topic: Astronomy
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 96 -- Height in cm: 34
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 11555 - Publisher: Ecole nationale des Chartes, Paris
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