Johannes, de Erfordia (1250-1320)
This composite manuscript brings together assorted treatises, mainly computistical and astronomical works (by Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, Johannes Münzinger, Johannes de Sacrobosco and others). It was written between 1388 and 1394 in Strassburg and in Rottweil on the Neckar (Wurttemberg) by Konrad Justinger and by Werner Mardersberger. One of the scribes, Werner Mardersberger was later director of the Solothurn Abbey School. The volume was acquired by the Solothurn Abbey Library in 1504.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Johann, von Limburg (Author) | Johannes, de Erfordia (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Johannes, Petri de Dacia (Author) | Müntzinger, Johannes (Author) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Author) | Rüdl, Petrus Ignatius Dominicus (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Johann, von Limburg (Author) | Johannes, de Erfordia (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Johannes, Petri de Dacia (Author) | Müntzinger, Johannes (Author) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Author) | Rüdl, Petrus Ignatius Dominicus (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Additional description
This composite volume, written between 1425 and 1425 in the Lake Constance regions, though not at the Abbey of St. Gall, contains Latin versions of a great many computistic/astronomical/cosmographical treatises, including the widely disseminated work De sphaera mundi by John of Sacrobosco and his arithmetical foundation work Tractatus de algorismo. The manuscript, organized according to the calendar, also contains illustrations: the twelve signs of the zodiac, a map of the winds, sketches of the ecliptics of the sun and moon, planets and constellations, a diagrammatic guide for bloodletting, a set of early medieval Terra Orbis-type world maps, and (on pages 265 and 266) twelve simple illustrations for the months with brief rhyming proverbs in German derived from the nature- and landscape-dominated everyday life of the people of the late middle ages.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Johannes, de Erfordia (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Erfordia (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Author) Found in: Additional description