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Nicole Oresme and Pèlerin de Prusse, Astronomical tracts translated for Charles V of France

by Nicole Oresme & active 14th century Pèlerin de Prusse

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  • 14th century
  • Languages: French, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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MS 164 contains various texts including Nicole Oresme’s Traité sur l’espère, featuring elaborate diagrams and drawings. It also features horoscopes for Charles V and some of his children. This manuscript was produced in France (possibly Paris) in the fourteenth century. Nicole Oresme and Pèlerin de Prusse, Astronomical tracts translated for Charles V of France

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  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “horoscope”.

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Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 322 digitized image(s); ff. iv + 148 + i + 4 + i.; Shelfmark: St John's College MS 164

Between 1365 × 1377—French, Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: St John's College MS 164
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: St John's College, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: France (Paris?)
  • Record origin: Ralph Hanna, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
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