Content: Incipit: Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus dicentes in primo quid sit spera
Content: Explicit: aut deus nature patitur, aut mundana machina dissoluetur. Explicit spera.
Content: Historiated initial of a seated man holding an astrolabe, [f. 80r] -- Chart showing solar system as concentric circles: Primum Mobile, the planets, fire, air, water, with earth at the center; in the spandrels, grotesques, a dog, a queen, [f. 81r] -- Chart of the seven climatic zones, with the torrid zone in the center and the poles at the extremes, [f. 107r] -- Chart of relationships of the earth in the center, with the orbits of the moon and the sun, [f. 111r] -- Diagram of a lunar eclipse, with earth casting a shadow cone, [f. 112v] -- Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone, [f. 113v]

Physical Description

Extent: ff. 80[r]-113[r]; f. 114r-v blank

Languages

Latin

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12455533
Archives ID: 2557
Digital Scriptorium 1.0 ID: NYPL MA 069
Photo Order: 62292
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fe807bc0-288e-013b-871f-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "De sphaera, Text 5" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1240 - 1260. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fe807bc0-288e-013b-871f-0242ac110002

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