Sample IMAGES

Most illustrated manuscripts of La sfera share a standard set of diagrams and maps; with over 160 manuscripts to keep track of, it can be hard to remember which is which. This page provides thumbnails of the 2-page map of the Eastern Mediterranean that normally accompanies Book 3, stanzas 16–21, for the 52 illustrated manuscripts for which we currently have digital images. (It doesn't include unillustrated manuscripts, illustrated manuscripts that have no maps, or manuscripts for which we have no digital images.) This array will give general viewers a sense of how the manuscripts are visually similar and/or different from one another, while at the same time providing project team members with an aide-memoire or visual index to particular manuscripts.

Boston Public Library
MS f.Med 125
ff. 12v-13r

Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library (Harvard)
MS Typ 155
ff. 22v-23r

Chicago, Newberry Library
MS Ayer Map 1
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
Conventi Soppressi MS 109
ff. 66v-67r

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
MS Med.-Pal. 88
folia uncertain

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
MS Med.-Pal. 90
folia uncertain (from microfilm)

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
MS Plut. 40.51
f. 92r-v

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
MS Plut. 41.39
ff. 53v-54r

Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana
MS Plut. 91.sup.103
ff. 107v-108r

Florence, BNCF (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale)
MS II.II.62
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, BNCF
MS II.II.83
ff. 205v-206r

Florence, BNCF
MS II.IX.137
ff. 60v-61r

Florence, BNCF
MS Pal. 340
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 1774
ff. 95v-96r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2254
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2255
ff. 14v-15r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2257
ff. 12v-13r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2258
ff. 16r-v

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2259
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2261
ff. 17v-18r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 2262
ff. 15v-16r

Florence, Bib. Riccardiana
MS 3927
ff. 14v-15r

Helsinki, National Library of Finland
Mscr. 1
ff. 71v-72r

Helsinki, National Library
Mscr. 2
ff. 15v-16r

Helsinki, National Library
Mscr. 3
ff. 17v-18r

Lawrence (KS), Spencer Research Library
Pryce MS P4
ff. 16v-17r

London, British Library
Add. MS 22329
ff. 17v-18r

London, British Library
Add. MS 24942
ff. 19v-20r (from microfilm)

London, Wellcome Library
MS 230
ff. 22v-23r

Lucca, Bib. Statale
MS 1274
ff. 15v-16r

Lucca, Bib. Statale
MS 1343
ff. 24v-25r

New Haven (CT), Beinecke Library
MS 328
ff. 15v-16r

New Haven (CT), Beinecke Library
MS 1030
ff. 39v-40r

New York, Morgan Library
MS M.721
ff. 15v-16r

New York Public Library
MS MA 109
ff. 15v-16r

New York Public Library
MS MA 110
ff. 15v-16r

New York Public Library
Spencer MS 198
ff. 15v-16r

Oxford, Bodleian Library
MS Canon. Ital. 74
ff. 64v-65r

Paris, Bib. nat. de France
Bib. de l'Arsenal MS 8536
ff. 69v-70r

Paris, Bib. nat. de France
MS 1076
ff. 16v-17r (from microfilm)

Paris, Bib. nat. de France
MS 1078
ff. 15v-16r (from microfilm)

Siena, Bib. Comunale degli Intronati
MS I.IX.23
ff. 15v-16r

Vatican City, BAV (Vatican Library)
MS Barb. Lat. 4048
ff. 16v-17r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Cappon. 56
ff. 15v-16r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Chigi M. VII.146
ff. 14v-15r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Urb. Lat. 752
ff. 17v-18r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Urb. Lat. 1754
ff. 113v-114r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Vat. Lat. 6802
ff. 12v-13r

Vatican City, BAV
MS Vat. Lat. 7612
ff. 15v-16r

Washington (DC), Library of Congress
Incun. 77411
ff. 22v-23r

These last two images come from auction catalogues, and contain images from copies of La sfera that we know of, but have lost track of. Anyone with information as to the current whereabouts of these manuscripts is encouraged to email Carrie Beneš at benes [at] ncf.edu.

Image from the Lier & Co. sale catalogue of 1924. MS last known as Tall Tree Library MS 1, owned by G.H. Beans of Jenkintown (PA), per de Ricci 1937.

Paper MS ca. 1470). 32 ff. (28 X 20 cm). The last five pages have been used for transcribing a portion of a herbal in Italian, with drawings of medicinal plants.

Note also the idiosyncratic map label of "Nesopotania" for "Mesopotamia."

Image from the Sotheby's catalogue of 1971. MS was formerly in the possession of Boies Penrose of Devon (PA), per Faye/Bond 1962.

Paper MS ca. 1450. 24 ff. (28 x 20 cm). Bound in old vellum.

This MS would be recognizable by its unusually rounded humanistic hand, a product of the same scribe as Morgan MS M.721.

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