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Scribe(s)	Hieronymus of Limburg signs his name as scribe in a number of places (114v, 130v, 263r)
Century	15 \| 15/16
Place of origin	Germany
Language	German \| Latin
Previous owners	Purchased for Spencer from H.P. Kraus, New York \| Purchased in 1946 from H.P. Kraus
Material	Chart.
Height × width	300 x 200
No. of leaves	305 \| 306
Numbering	ff. \| ff. in pencil in the upper right corner of the rectos: i-vii, l la-305, viii-xiv
Watermarks	Various watermarks: 2 types of a bull's head with cross (24, 305); circle bisected in its upper portion by a parabola (115); elaborate crown (143)
Binding leaves	306 + xiv (added old paper leaves, 7 at the beginning, 7 at the end of the text)
Cover	Bound in original blind-tooled dark brown calf, clasps \| Bound in the 16th century, stamped calf over wooden boards, with bronze clasps. Of Middle or Upper Rhenish origin according to the dealer's description \| Oak boards covered with stamped leather, with clasp (one missing)
No. of hands	A German scribe
Type of writing	Gothic letter \| Script is cursive Gothic - a mixture of cursiva currens (tall letters have loops and many other cursive features appear)
No. of columns	Ruled with a stylus for double columns
Lineation	51-54 lines
Ink	Written in black ink (now faded to brown), underlined in red ink
Initials etc.	30 chapters numbered 1 to 29 \| Titles, etc. are in the script and ink of the text, underlined often in red ink
Decorations	54 large and 61 smaller initials, 55 astronomic diagrams, some times forming groups of human beings of characteristic appearance and various professions (examples: (87) Saturnus, (238) Twins, (242) water-carrier, (166) Courtesan, (172-188) Fool and Plougher etc.): while painting these designs the artist was no doubt improving as will easily be seen by the groups of Venus (216), Moon (227) and Sun (213). Considering the ressemblance of some of these pictures to te woodcuts in the Incunabula, the question will arise which were the earlier. Judging by the present Codex the colored drawings seem to have been the first because this manuscript was surely finished before the publication of the respective Incunabula: Ben Ezra 1485 or Johannes Angulus 1490. (Note in another hand: The cited drawings are clearly ... after the Ratdolt editions (of Albumasar, De magnis coninctionibus) or other publications going back to wooden models of his Hygines, Venice 1482). - 426 astrologic schemata, 74 pages of astronomic tables, a calendar, and 1 large astrologic table \| 555 colored pen drawings \| Numerous colored pen and ink drawings and many diagrams. Large decorated initials in red. In some places in the Text (e.g., 1ar, 2r, 51r & v, 263v), space has been provided for initials, but they were not inserted
Printed catalogs	Faye, C.U./Bond, W.H.: Supplement to the Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York 1962), 333
Publ. descriptions	Kroll, Skutsch: I, 97-237, II, 3-27
Other notes	Provenance: According to the dealer's description, "the dialect is that of the Middle-Rhine provinces, which agrees with the names of the places given in later entrances of places of 1559-1560, l.147". Purchased for Spencer from H.P. Kraus, New York and accesioned in 1946, Dec. 5
Source	Faye/Bond (1962) \| Public Library, "JHK" (1976) \| STR, Transcript of Krause, H.P., catalog description
Type of source	cat. \| ts. pvt. notes

Work 1	Title (standard)	De coloribus notabilia pulchra \| Tractatus de coloribus
	Language	German
	Additional remarks	Work on the colours, their manufacture, dyeing of various materials, gem-carving and smelting. Book-printing was already known to the author, although as a new invention (17v). The dialect is that of the Middle-Rhine provinces, which agrees with the names of places given in later entrances of places of 1559-1560 (147)
	Folio no.	1ar-21r
	Additional texts	(1v) list of names and notes in German
	Scribbles	(1v): list of names (?) and notes in German
	Blank leaves	(i-vii, 21v, 22v-26v) blank, (22r): blank except for short note in German
Work 2	Author (ms.)	Leupoldus ducatus Austrie filius
	Author standard	Hieronymus Paulus de Lymppurg \| Leopold of Austria
	Title (standard)	Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austrie filii De Astrorum scientia \| Introductiones ad astrologiam
	Incipit	(27r) Incipit compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austrie filii De Astrorum scientia
	Language	Latin
	Subject 1	Astrologie
	Printed copies	Copied from 1489 Ratdolt edition
	Folio no.	27r-114v
	Colophon	(114v) Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austriae filii De Astrorum scientia finit feliciter. Per hieronimu(m) pauli de lymppurg.
	Blank leaves	115
Work 3	Author standard	Abraham ibn Ezra \| Hieronymus Paulus de Lymppurg
	Title (standard)	De nativitatibus
	Language	Latin
	Printed copies	Copied from 1489 Ratdolt edition
	Folio no.	116r-130v
	Rubric	Incipit liber Abraham Iudei de nati(vi)tatibus.
	Colophon	Per me hieronimu(m) pauli de limp(pur)g.
Work 4	Author (ms.)	Hanricus bate
	Author standard	H. Bate \| Heinricus bate
	Additional names	Guillelmus de Moerbeka
	Title (standard)	Compositio astrolabii
	Incipit	(131r) Magistral(is) compositio astrolabii henrici bate ad petitione(m) fratres Uuilhelmi de morbeka ordinis predicatoru(m) d(omi)ni pape penite(n)tiarii et Capellani
	Language	Latin
	Subject 1	Astronomie
	Printed copies	Copied from 1489 Ratdolt edition
	Additional remarks	(137r) note: stating that the essay of Henry Bate was finished at Mechlin in 1274
	Folio no.	131r-137v
	Explicit	(139v) Finit felicit(er) opusculu(m) Abrahe iudei de nativitatibus cum exemplaribus figuris singulis domibus antepositis. Et magistralis compositio Astrolabii hanrici bate
	Additional texts	(137v-139v) additional text
Work 5	Title (standard)	Tables
	Folio no.	139v-142v
	Tables	Tables
	Blank leaves	(143r-144r, 145v-147r) blank, (145r) blank except for two line prayer
Work 6	Title (standard)	German place names
	Precise date	1560
	Folio no.	147v
Work 7	Title (standard)	Astrolabium planum in tabulis
	Subject 1	Astronomie
	Folio no.	148r-149v
	Math. drawings	Astrolabiu(m) planu(m) in tabulis
	Blank leaves	(150r) blank except for a word and a doodle
Work 8	Title (standard)	Explanatory text
	Folio no.	150v-165r
	Tables	Tables
Work 9	Title (standard)	Diagrams
	Folio no.	166r-201v
	Math. drawings	Diagrams
	Blank leaves	202
Work 10	Title (standard)	Explanatory text (203r, 203v)
	Folio no.	203r-205v
	Tables	Tables (203v-205v)
Work 11	Title (standard)	Significatio Sat(ur)ni in signis
Work 11	Folio no.	206r
Work 12	Author standard	Julius Firmicus Maternus
	Title (standard)	Matheseos Libri VIII (frag.)
	Language	Latin
	Printed copies	Edition Kroll, Skutsch: I, 97-237, II, 3-27
	Folio no.	206v-244v
	Explicit	(244v) Finit tertia pars hui(us) libri una cu(m) t(ra)ctatu Iulii firmici.
Work 13	Author standard	Julius Firmicus Maternus
	Title (standard)	Matheseos Libri VIII (frag.)
	Incipit	Quarta pars libri hui(us). Tabula(m) horar(um) et cqliu(m) noctiu(m)q(ue) pro nostro septimo themate co(n)tinet
	Language	Latin
	Folio no.	245r-257r
Work 14	Author standard	Engel, Johannes \| Johannes Angulus
	Title (standard)	Significationes horarum planetarum
	Incipit	Significationes horar(um) planetarum
	Language	Latin
	Folio no.	257v-258r
	Colophon	(258r) Explicit opus Astrolabii plani in tabulis a Iohanne Angli a novo elaboratum explicit feliciter.
Work 15	Title (standard)	Prognostica et Isagogica in astronomiam
	Incipit	Prognostica in tacuinos ex prolixis in compendiu(m) redacta. Isagogica in astronomia(m) iudiciaria(m)
	Language	Latin
	Folio no.	263v-271r
Work 16	Title (standard)	Diagram
	Folio no.	272r
	Math. drawings	Diagram
	Blank leaves	272v-275
Work 17	Author (ms.)	Johannes de Monte Regio
	Author standard	Johannes Müller \| Johannes Regiomontanus
	Title (standard)	Disputationu(m) Iohannis de monte regio. Contra Cremone(n)sia in planetar(um) theoricas deliramenta p(rae)fatio
	Incipit	Disputationu(m) Iohannis de monte regio. Contra Cremone(n)sia in planetar(um) theoricas deliramenta p(rae)fatio
	Language	Latin
	Subject 1	Astronomie
	Folio no.	276r-284v
	Explicit	(284v) Finit disputatio(n)es Ioa(n)nis de mo(n)te regio con(tra) cremone(n)sia deliramenta in pl(anet)ar(um) theoricas
Work 18	Author (ms.)	Georg Purbacher \| Purbacher
	Author standard	Georg Peurbach
	Title (standard)	Theorice novae planetar(um) Georgii purbachii Astronomi celebratissimi
	Incipit	Theorice novae planetar(um) Georgii purbachii Astronomi celebratissimi
	Language	Latin
	Subject 1	Astronomie
	Folio no.	285r-301r
	Explicit	(301r) Finit Theorice novae planetar(um) Georgii purbachii
Work 19	Title (standard)	Theorica planetarum
	Incipit	Incipit Theorica pl(anet)ar(um)
	Language	Latin
	Subject 1	Astronomie
	Folio no.	301v-305v
	Explicit	Explicit Theorica planetar(um)
	Scribbles	(305v): scribbles
	Blank leaves	viii-xiv