Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.231

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Other Form of the Shelfmark :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.231
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.231
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.231
- Wellcome Library, MS.231
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- 1475
Composition :
- 1 volume; 18 ll folio. 29 1/2 x 20 cm. Unbound. Margins of some leaves frayed, with slight loss of text: second leaf torn.

IIIF manifest

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Notes

Sferamundi: in Italian ottava rima. Written in a rounded gothic hand, 32 lines to a page. Initial A on the first leaf in red and yellow, some headings in red. Illustrated with 8 astronomical figures in water-colour. A foliation has been supplied in pencil. Fol. 1 AL padre al filio: et ad spirito sancto/Per ogni secul sia gloria: et honore./ 18 Doue si nauicca e finisse qui/L asia magiore [sic] el fiume tanai.//Finis.//(Within an outlined scroll in red) Questa sie opera del fa. ri. na.
Farina has not been identified, but is presumably the name of the scribe. For a note on the contents of this poem, cf. entry for MS. No. 230.
Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).