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Fragmenta Manuscripta 201: Volvelle

Information About This Item

Title

Fragmenta Manuscripta 201: Volvelle

Date

1485 - 1499

Description

Contents: Possibly intended as sundial.
Condition: Volvelle removed from its page; possibly intended to represent a sundial?
Paper: Hand with star from middle finger.
Notes: See Fragmenta Manuscripta 206 (of German origin) for similar watermark.
Decoration: Diagram

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Is Referenced By

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10274

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 201

Provenance

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Format

122 x 122 mm

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England