Horologium Amicorum : Emmanuel Poulle : L'astrarium de Giovanni Dondi Padoue, Bibliothèque capitulaire, ms D. 39.

Includes Amici Addendi slip.

"Ce fac-similé de l'astralarium de Giovanni Dondi a été publié hors comment aux frais des amis d'Emmanuel Poulle a l'occasion de son élection a l'académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres."

In French.

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This is a high resolution, color facsimile edition of the circa 1364 illustrated latin manuscript in the Padua Library of 66 leaves called "Tractatus Astrarium" by the Padua physician Giovanni de Dondi dall'orologgio . (Original is BHM 7014) There are two slightly different original contrmporary texts by de Dondi describing the same artifact. [The other one -original in Venice- was transcribed into English by Baillie, Lloyd and Ward and published by AHS as BHM 2897] The one reproduced here is at the Biblioteca Capitolar in Padua (Italy) under Catalog Number "ms D 39". [15th or 16th century copies of the Padua manuscript exist in the Ambrosiana 9C.139), and the Museo Civico of Padua (CM 631): This facsimile edition was produced to honor the election of emmanuel Poule (scholar of medival scientific instruments) to the l'academie des inscriptions et belles lettres by his friends.