St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 827

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St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
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  • Cod. Sang. 827
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Date
  • 15th century
  • 1425/28
Language
  • Latin
  • German
Title
  • Late Medieval Composite Manuscript of Computistic and Astronomical Content
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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.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Lake Constance area
    Original form
    • Lake Constance region
    Other form
    • Bodenseegebiet
    • Lake of Constance Region
    • Lac de Constance (région)
    • Llac de Constança (regió)
    • Lago Constanza (región)
    • Meer van Konstanz (omgeving)
    • Bodenmeer (omgeving)
    • Bodensee (omgeving)
    • Region of Lake Constance
    • Lake Constance area
    • Area of Lake Constance
    • Area of Lake Constance
    • Bodenseegebiet (Reichenau?)
    • Bodenseegebiet (St. Gallen?)
    • Bodenseegebiet, Ostfrankreich
    • Bodenseegebiet, St. Gallen?
    • Bodenseeraum
    • Bodensee
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