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Alfonsine astronomy : the written record / edited by Richard L. Kremer, Matthieu Husson and José Chabás
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Alfonsine Astronomy: Studies and Sources Ser ; v.1Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 Online-Ressource (426 pages) : illustrations (some color)ISBN:- 9782503595214
- 520.917/4927 23/eng/20231120
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Summary: "Compiled between 1262 and 1272 in Toledo under the patronage of Alfonso X, the Castilian Alfonsine Tables were recast in Paris in the 1320s, resulting in what we now call the Parisian Alfonsine Tables. These materials circulated widely and fostered astronomical activities throughout Europe. This resulted in a significant number of new works, of which there are a few hundred, extant in more than 600 manuscript codices and dozens of printed editions. These manuscripts and imprints, broadly contemporary to the works they witness, comprise the written record of Alfonsine astronomy and provide the focus of this volume.00A first series of essays examines individual manuscripts containing Alfonsine works. The authors seek to reconstruct, from the manuscript evidence, the cultural, astronomical and mathematical worlds in which the manuscripts were initially copied, compiled, used and collected. A second series of essays turns from the particular codex to the individual work or author. These contributions ask how particular works have been transmitted in surviving manuscript witnesses and how broader manuscript cultures shaped the diffusion, over two centuries, of Alfonsine astronomy across Europe. A final essay reflects on the challenges and opportunities offered by digital humanities approaches in such collective studies of a large manuscript corpus"--PPN: PPN: 1922680702Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Contexts of practice and diffusion as attested by manuscripts and manuscript collections: -- The libro de las tablas Alfonsíes: new documentary and material sources / Laura Fernández Fernández -- Alfonsine astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Oxford: the case of MS Bodleian Library Digby 176 / Jean-Patrice Boudet, Laurie Miolo -- Exploring a late-fifteenth-century astrologer's toolbox: British Library Add MS 34603 / Richard L. Kremer -- From computus material to preacher's toolbox: manufacturing a bat-book almanac in the fifteenth century / Alexandre Tur -- Bohemian Kind Wenceslas IV's copy of the Alfonsine tables and their place within his astronomical and astrological corpus / Eric Ramírez-Weaver
Authors, texts and their receptions in various milieus: -- Editing the tables of 1322 by John of Lignères / José Chabás, Marie-Madeleine Saby -- John of Lignères's Quia ad inveniendum loca planetarum: an edition and translation / Alen Hadravová, Petr Hadrava -- New texts and tables attributed to John of Lignères: context and analysis / José Chabás -- Work cohesion as a test of manuscript transmission: the case of John of Lignères' Tabule magne / Matthieu Husson -- Retracing the tradition of John of Genoa's Opus astronomicum through extant manuscripts / Laurie Miolo -- All in: fifteenth-century manuscripts devoted to Giovanni Bianchini's astronomy / Glen Van Brummelen -- From documents to data: the digital projects of ALFA / Galla Topalian, Matthieu Husson.
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