Volvelle
Information About This Item
Title
Volvelle
Date
1485 - 1499
Description
Contents: Possibly intended as sundial.
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.
Condition: Volvelle removed from its page; possibly intended to represent a sundial?
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.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 201
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta201_45
Format
Paper - Hand with star from middle finger - 122 x 122 mm - Circle with 122 mm diameter
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England