After coming across a familiar-looking diagram of the planets in a 10th-century manuscript a few months ago, I asked my colleagues here at the British Library how cosmology was represented in some of the manuscripts on which they are currently working. The manuscripts they recommended offered a diverse array of...
We're returning to our Guess the Manuscript roots (which stretch all the way back to April of this year) for this latest instalment of everyone's favourite game: it's a diagram! Same rules as always: the manuscript this comes from is part of the British Library collections and can be found...
After coming across a familiar-looking diagram of the planets in a 10th-century manuscript a few months ago, I asked my colleagues here at the British Library how cosmology was represented in some of the manuscripts on which they are currently working. The manuscripts they recommended offered a diverse array of...
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В продолжении темы "зеро-сфeры-шифра". Иллюстрация из средневековой "армянской"? рукописи. В круге, посредине рисунка, "десятиричный счёт" с точками, причём каждый десяток обозначен иной буквой... или это "пре-арабские" числительные, только счёт идёт против часовой стрелки! Medieval Armenian…
I scanned the Armillary Sphere again (oops), and this time decided to publish the illustration moer or less as it came off the scanner, as a picture from an old book. Copies of this book are
Fra Mauro, an Italian cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice, was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael where he maintained a
Even today, the 1863 edition of the "Dictionnaire Infernal" is the stuff of nightmares.
