Today's #ManuscriptOfTheDay is Ms. Codex 761, a collection of four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation, including Plato, Aristotle, Philo, and Cleomedes. The work includes many diagrams, including this one of the spheres on f. 58v #medieval #manuscript #greek #latin #translation #diagram #cosmology #historyofscience #bookstagram #bookhistory #librariesofinstagram
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Today's #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 264, a summary of all knowledge by Gautier of Metz, on the creation of the world and man, geography, and astronomy, written in France ca. 1400. This unusual diagram of people on Earth (terre) is on f. 39v #medieval #manuscript #france #french #astronomy #cosmology #geography #illustration #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
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