VMs: Anthony Askham's zodiacal volvelles and similar Irish volvelles

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In re: Askham's translation of Sacro Bosco's 'De sphaera' (again MS337,
Beinecke), the Beinecke catalog entry mentions this curious sub-item
(another part of the entry has been previously quoted by GC in a reply to
Jim Gillogly (archive 26.1.03):

"4.  ff. 83r-105rCalendar for the years 1529-35.  For each of the twelve
months there is a table, Latin quotation, and a volvelle with sign of the
zodiac (volvelles for January, February, June, July, August, and September
are defective).  On f. 105r is a brief explanation of how to use the
calendar:  "for the declaration off this kalender ye shall vnderstand that
the goldyng nowmbre is set in the hyghest circle...Also th^^e whitte
colore stand for the change and the blake for the fulle.  here endythe the
kalender composid by the sayd Anthony Askham."

source:
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/beinflat/pre1600.MS337.htm

Description of MS337 notes that "All drawings are carefully drawn in brown
ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled
in red or brown ink."
     
Are there pictures of said Askham 'kalender' online? I don't remember any
calendar being mentioned in the Strong's 1945 article published in Science.

Also of interest and maybe in the same context, these images are from an
Irish early sixteenth century MS 129 in the library of Corpus Christi
College, Oxford (still not in the Bodleian online catalog) - the scribe's
name was An Giolla Glas O Cassaide:

http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/cat/b/b2-10-1a.jpg
http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/cat/b/b2-10-1b.jpg

Source is the School of Celtic Studies, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in
the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries:
http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/cat/b/b2-10.html

Luis

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