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Tratado de astronomia.

Author/Creator:
Valades y Leon, Manuel.
Publication:
[Mexico], [circa 1692-1750]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
212 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 155 x 110 mm bound to 159 x 109 mm
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Subjects:
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Navigation.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Calendars (documents by form)
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Spanish.
Summary:
Astrological texts illustrated with numerous diagrams, tables, and pen and ink drawings; with some material on navigation, the astrolabe and quadrant.
Contents:
Libro primero de las reglas de astroloxia sacadas y añadidas muchas tablas nuebas y curiosas, 1714.
Libro segundo reglas para la nautíca y sus tablas nesesarias.
Libro de barias cosas.
Tratado de los vientos [with material on perpetual calendars].
Lunario perpetuo y pronotico ... de Valencia, 1725.
Libro de varias cosas.
Esplicasion de el quadrant e de reducion, 1692.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Overall title taken from spine.
Several items are attributed to Manuel Valades y Leon in headings.
Foliation: Paper, 212 + i; [i], 1-37, 1-25, 1-10, [lxxvi], 1-49, [i], 1-10, 13, [ii], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-212], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams, tables, symbols of the zodiac, calendars, and pen and ink drawings.
Binding: Contemporary boards. Upper cover detached; lower cover nearly detached.
Origin: Possibly written in Mexico, circa 1692-1750.
Two printed items laid in, a bookmark and a holy card depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Hibberd's Books.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 818.
OCLC:
155912560
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