Research Guides: Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Astronomy/ Astrology

Overview

Intended as an overview of available sources on astronomy and astrology. Grouped into the following categories:

Almagests
Astrology
Astrology Bibliographies
Astronomy
Computus
Publisher Series

Publisher Series

Studia Copernicana

Astrology Bibliographies

Astrological manuscripts in Italian libraries (other than Rome) by Patrick McGurk
Call Number: Z6611.A8 M3
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Middle English lunaries : a study of the genre by Irma Taavitsainen
Call Number: PB10 .N413 v.47
Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters by Fritz Saxl und Hans Meier
Call Number: Z6611.A8 S3
Continued by the Warburg Institute's Catalogue of astrological and mythological illuminated manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, the first vol. of which has been designated vol. 4.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Scientific writings and astronomical tables in Cracow : a census of manuscript sources (XIVth-XVIth centuries) by Grażyna Rosińska
Call Number: Q155 .R67 1984
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts by S. Page
Call Number: ND3333 .P342 2002

Astrology

On Christian Doctrine by Augustine
Medieval Lunar Astrology by Laurel Means (Editor)
Call Number: BF1723 .M43 1993
ISBN: 0773492992
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts by Sophie Page
Call Number: ND3333 .P342 2002
Illustrated throughout from the collections of the British Library, Dept. of Manuscripts.
The Occult in Early Modern Europe by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart (Editor)
Call Number: BF1429 .O27 1999
The Ash Wednesday supper = La cena de le ceneri by Giordano Bruno; Edward A. Gosselin (Editor); Lawrence S. Lerner (Editor)
Call Number: QB36.C8 B8713 1977
The Zodiac Man in Medieval Medical Astrology by C.W Clarke
Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Colorado 1979

Almagests

Miniatures of Ursa minor (Little Bear) and Ursa major (Great Bear), in tables from Ptolemy's Almagest.

British Library MS Arundel 66, f. 33

Almagest. 1200
Text of Ptolemy's Almagest in Gherardo da Cremona's Latin translation.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2057.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7000
Almagest, ca. 1300
[Claudii Ptolemaei magnae compositionis sive Almagesti libri I-XIII]

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2056.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7141
Almagest. 1460 by Joannes Regiomontanus
[Joannis de Monte Regio Epithome in Almagestum Ptholomei]

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Cod. Barb. lat. 156.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 3449
Almagest. 1480 by George of Trebizond (Translator)
[Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae compositionis sive Almagesti libri I-XIII cum figuris geometricis Georgio Trapezuntio interprete]

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2054.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 7126

Astronomy

Sacrobosco, De Sphaera, Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Lat. 209, fol. 7r

Latin treatises on comets between 1238 and 1368 A. D. by Lynn Thorndike (Editor)
Call Number: QB41 .T4
The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its commentators. by Lynn Thorndike (Editor)
Call Number: QB41.S4 T5
De sphaera
Call Number: ND3399.D48 D46 2010
A collection of essays describing the 15th-century astrological treatise De sphaera and the manuscript in which it is contained (Modena, Biblioteca estense universitaria Alpha X 2.14). The manuscript was illuminated by an artist of the Lombard school (thought to be Cristoforo de Predis) for the court of Milan, then made its way to Ferrara and the court of the Este family.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Sphaera mundi. 1456.
Text of Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 1706.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL BAV MSS MICROFILM 8926
Christophori Clavii ... In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, Commentarivs. 1593 by Christoph Clavius
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books ; list 10, no. 14.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MICROFILM 1192.6 Nearby on shelf
G. J. Rheticus' Treatise on Holy Scripture and the Motion of the Earth by R. Hooykaas
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus
Call Number: QB41 .C76 1965
De revolutionibus orbium caelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus
Call Number: QB41 .C76 1543a
Reprint of 1543 ed.

Located in Pius Spec Coll Rare Bks O'size
An Annotated Census of Copernicus' de Revolutionibus by Owen Gingerich
Call Number: QB41.C78 G55 2002
On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus; Alistair M. Duncan (Editor)
Call Number: QB41 .C7613 1976
Tychonis Brahe Dani Opera Omnia by I.L.E. Dreyer (Editor)
Call Number: QB41 .B72
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke by Max Caspar, Walther von Dyck, Franz Hammer, and Volker Bialas (Editors)
Call Number: QB3 .K3 1937
Le opere di Galileo Galilei by Antonio Garbasso and Giorgio Abetti (Editors)
Call Number: QB3 .G313
Galileo and His Sources by William A. Wallace
Call Number: QB36.G2 W35 1984
[Otto lettere originali] by Galileo Galilei
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 4593
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Barb. lat. 6479.

Located in the VFL.
A Defense of Galileo, the Mathematician from Florence by Tommaso Campanella
Call Number: QB36.G2 C3213 1994
I documenti vaticani del processo di Galileo Galilei (1611-1741) by Sergio Pagano
Call Number: QB36.G2 D63 2009
De Sphaera : sphaerae coelestis et planetarum descriptio : conservato alla Biblioteca estense universitaria di Modena : manoscritto Lat. 209 = [alpha].X.2.14.
Call Number: ND3399 .D48 2008
"The De Sphaera is unanimously regarded as the most beautiful astrological book of the Italian Renaissance."--Bookseller's description.

Computus

The Munich Computus: Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times by Immo Warntjes
Call Number: CE57 .W375 2010
The Kalendarium of John Somer by John Somer; Linne R. Mooney (Editor)
Call Number: PR1912 .S65 1998
Computus lunaris. 1410 by Bonus de Lucca
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 275
Publication Date: http://libcat.slu.edu/record=b2298112~S5
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 2665.

Located in VFL
The reckoning of time by Faith Wallis (Translator); Bede Venerabilis Staff
Call Number: QB213 .B43 1999
Byrhtferth's Manual (A.D. 1011) now edited for the first time from ms. Ashmole 328 in the Bodleian library by S.J. Crawford (Translator)
Call Number: PR1119 .A2 no.177
Hypomnēma eis ta Meteōrologika. Latin
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 2525
Text of several commentaries on Aristotle, and scientific and philosophical works by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Jacobus de Duaco, Walter Burley, Giles of Rome, Siger of Brabant, and others.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Ott. lat. 2165.
Oxford. St. John's College Ms. 17
Created in the first decade of the 12th century at Thorney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Cambridgeshire. St John's 17 is a compilation of texts, tables, maps and diagrams. It is organized around the central theme of time-reckoning and calendar construction.
Abu Shaker's "Chronography" by O. Neugebauer(Translator); Abu Shaker
Call Number: CE57 .N48 1988
A treatise of the 13th century on chronological, calendrical, and astronomical matters, written by a Christian Arab, preserved in Ethiopic.
[Nicolai Germani Tabulae astronomicae]. 1465
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 6992
Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 3107.

Located in VFL