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Part 1. ff. 1-4v. [Astrological treatise]. Incipit: The first howse ys clepid asscendant and the hirne off the est & it is the howse off liffe & hit signifieth bodies & life. Explicit: to be loked to & be consideret. English. Treatise on the twelve houses of the zodiac, each section consisting of a description of the house and a passage referring to the Book of Geomancy; followed by a short paragraph on a thirteenth house. Part 2. ff. 5-16v. De naturis substancialibus planetarum quas habent ex natura propria. Incipit: Hit is to knowe that ther ben .7. planetts the whiche byn thies in her order. Rubric: De naturis substancialibus planetarum quas habent ex natura propria. English. A treatise on elections of times, with headings and passages in Latin, with prologue that begins,"For as moche as every science or craft ooun art for his utilite, Therfore utilite in astronomye standith not only in knowing of the caurs and moving of heven, But principally in pronosticacions and Elections of tymes, Therfore in this tretise y wil determyn of elections of tymes principally. Title from printed catalog. Support: Paper. Assigned Date: s. XV/XVI. Part I. [Astrological treatise]. Script: Cursive book script. Layout: Frame-ruled in plummet and written with about 35 long lines. Span folios: ff. 1-4v. Other Decoration: 3- and 2-line initials in plain red. Part. 2. De naturis substancialibus planetarum quas habent ex natura propria. Script: Formal Bâtarde script. Layout: Frame-ruled in ink and written with about 32 long lines. Span folios: ff. 5-16v. Other Decoration: Space reserved for 3- and 2-line initials. ff. iii and iv-v (=the contemporary front and back flyleaves) probably belong together, and come from another part of the parent volume, to judge by their patterns of damp-stains. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009. Bound in 1983 or soon after for H. P. Kraus in plain brown calf; until then in "sixteenth-century limp vellum wrappers sewn on 3 thongs". HM 60320. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
The present two texts originally written separately: the parent volume consisted of several parts, mostly concerning astrology (including Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe), of various dates of the second half of the s. XV and of s. XVI. James Alleyn, s. XVI, with his signature on f. iii of the parent volume, according to the 1983 catalog description. The marquises of Bute, of Luton, Bedfordshire, and Eccleston Square, London, by 1872; formerly part of their MS 13 (A. 19); the individual texts of the present volume numbered"X" and"XI" in pencil in the upper left corner of their first rectos; Bute sale at Sotheby's, 13 June 1983, lot 32, bought by Kraus, and dismembered; one part (Kraus no. R2411;"VIII" in upper corner) sold by them to R. Stanitz and now (2008) in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg collection, LJS 191; the present piece (Kraus no. R2428), acquired by the Huntington through the Collector's Council, January 2000.
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