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

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "legal1@xxxxxxxxx" <legal1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In re: Askham's translation of Sacro Bosco's 'De
> sphaera' (again MS337,
> Beinecke), the Beinecke catalog entry mentions this
> curious sub-item

 [...]

> 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."

The same description notes that this MS is written
on paper in an English secretarial hand.
Are any MSs from this time frame, from the UK, 
written on parchment?

> 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

The interesting bit about the second one is that
the usual starting point Aries is not near the
top of the figure. Also, the artist has clearly
never seen a lion, a picture of a lion,
or a good picture of Leo.

Cheers ,Rene

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