Tratado de astronomia

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

212 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 155 x 110 mm bound to 159 x 109 mm; Binding: Contemporary boards. Upper cover detached; lower cover nearly detached.; Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams, tables, symbols of the zodiac, calendars, and pen and ink drawings.; Foliation: Paper, 212 + i; [i], 1-37, 1-25, 1-10, [lxxvi], 1-49, [i], 1-10, 13, [ii], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-212], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Possibly written in Mexico, circa 1692-1750.; Overall title taken from spine.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Several items are attributed to Manuel Valades y Leon in headings.; Spanish.; Table of contents: Libro primero de las reglas de astroloxia sacadas y añadidas muchas tablas nuebas y curiosas, 1714. -- Libro segundo reglas para la nautíca y sus tablas nesesarias. -- Libro de barias cosas. -- Tratado de los vientos [with material on perpetual calendars]. -- Lunario perpetuo y pronotico ... de Valencia, 1725. -- Libro de varias cosas. -- Esplicasion de el quadrant e de reducion, 1692.; Two printed items laid in, a bookmark and a holy card depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary.