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Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Ptolemy / King Alfonso / Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ludwig XII.7, ff. 1-6 (olim Kew, Collection Sir S. Cockerell)
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Northern hemisphere / Ursa Maior / Single figure
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Northern hemisphere / Ursa Minor / Single figure

Further details

see Sotheby's catalogue, 3rd April 1957, Lot 11 with indication on provenance (entries added to the calendar in a fifteenth-century hand point to an early Gloucester owner; two owners' names are written in fifteenth-century hands: Radulphus Moulder, f. 1, and Thomas Gloucester, f. 49)

Artist or creator

English

Date

1400 (circa)

Location

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ludwig XII. 7

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Constellation cycle derived from Alfonso X of Castile, Libros del saber de astronomia. Folio: 1r.

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