Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro del saber de astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments

This article analyses the relationship between text and image in one of the most important scientific manuscripts commissioned by Alfonso x the Learned, El Libro del saber de astrologia (Ms. 156 bh Complutense University, Madrid). The main topic deals with the depiction of astrolabes in the four tre...

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Auteur principal: Fernández, Laura Fernández (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Medieval encounters
Année: 2017, Volume: 23, Numéro: 1/5, Pages: 287-310
Sujets non-standardisés:B ALFONSO X Libro del Saber de Astrologia medieval astrolabes scientific illuminated manuscripts
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article analyses the relationship between text and image in one of the most important scientific manuscripts commissioned by Alfonso x the Learned, El Libro del saber de astrologia (Ms. 156 bh Complutense University, Madrid). The main topic deals with the depiction of astrolabes in the four treatises devoted to this instrument in the codex, and the connexion established between the real astrolabes, the depicted ones, and the written sources used by the Alfonsine team.
ISSN:1570-0674
Contient:In: Medieval encounters
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12342249