Sancto Ludovico, Medardus à

Tabulae septem planetarum. Preceded by a printed 'Speculum astrologicum' ... Per I.H.H. Prague: G. Labaun. 1723. Followed by transcripts of: Morin (J. B.) Tabulae Rudolphinae [1650]. La Hire (P. de) Tabulae astronomicae [1702]. (1) H. (I.H.) Speculum astrologicum, exhibens singulorum aspectuum planetarum proprietates, virtutem, efficaciam, in tempestate aeris mutatione: in phlebotomia et medicamentorum usu: in nativitatibus et genituris hominum: in actionibus humanis et oeconomicis quotidianis ... collectum (8 ll.). (2) Sancto Ludovico (M. à) Tabulae (ff. 1-95). (3) Morin (J. B.) Tabulae Rudolphinae (ff. 97-121). (4) La Hire (P. de) Tabulae astronomicae (ff. 122-145). At the end of No. 3 (fol. 121v) is a note by the transcriber: 'Reductio Tabularum de la Hire ad meridianum Pragensem fit per 42' 20". Huic si esset reducenda Epocha 1741 completo 1a Januarii in meridie (civili nempe 1742), tunc ergo motus [Gold] aut alterius Planetae conveniens 42' 20'' fiet subtrahens ...' On the fly-leaf: 'Ex libris P. Medardi à S. Ludovico Scholae Piarum'. 'Bibliotheca Pragense Scholae Piarum' is inscribed on the title-page of the first work. Produced in Prague.

1742

1 volume 8 ll. + 145 ff. 4to. 21 × 16 cm. Original calf binding: both tape ties wanting. Some leaves are wanting at the end.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).