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Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (2022)

Chabás, José (Editor)
Husson, Matthieu (Editor)
Kremer, Richard L. (Editor)

Brepols Publishers
Volume: 1
Pages: 426

ISBN: 9782503595207

URL: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.ALFA-EB.5.124044

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Astronomy Manuscripts Transmission of texts Astrology Digital humanities Medieval Europe Alfonso X, King of Léon and Castile

Compiled between 1262 and 1272 in Toledo under the patronage of Alfonso X, the Castilian Alfonsine Tables were recast in Paris in the 1320s, resulting in what we now call the Parisian Alfonsine Tables. These materials circulated widely and fostered astronomical activities throughout Europe. This resulted in a significant number of new works, of which there are a few hundred, extant in more than 600 manuscript codices and dozens of printed editions. These manuscripts and imprints, broadly contemporary to the works they witness, comprise the written record of Alfonsine astronomy and provide the focus of this volume.A first series of essays examines individual manuscripts containing Alfonsine works. The authors seek to reconstruct, from the manuscript evidence, the cultural, astronomical and mathematical worlds in which the manuscripts were initially copied, compiled, used and collected. A second series of essays turns from the particular codex to the individual work or author. These contributions ask how particular works have been transmitted in surviving manuscript witnesses and how broader manuscript cultures shaped the diffusion, over two centuries, of Alfonsine astronomy across Europe. A final essay reflects on the challenges and opportunities offered by digital humanities approaches in such collective studies of a large manuscript corpus.

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Review C. Philipp E. Nothaft (2023) Review of "Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 113-118). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Glen Van Brummelen (2022) All In: Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts Devoted to Giovanni Bianchini's Astronomy. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 381-400). unapi

Chapter Alena Hadravová; Petr Hadrava (2022) John of Lignères's Quia ad inveniendum loca planetarum: An Edition and Translation. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 257-302). unapi

Chapter Matthieu Husson (2022) Work Cohesion as a Test of Manuscript Transmission: The Case of John of Lignères' Tabule magne. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 317-342). unapi

Chapter Laura Fernández Fernández (2022) The Libro de las tablas alfonsíes: New Documentary and Material Sources. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 21-55). unapi

Chapter José Chabás; Marie-Madeleine Saby (2022) Editing the Tables of 1322 by John of Lignères. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 243-255). unapi

Chapter Richard L. Kremer; Matthieu Husson; José Chabás (2022) Introduction. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 7-17). unapi

Chapter Galla Topalian; Matthieu Husson (2022) From Documents to Data: The Digital Projects of ALFA. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 403-426). unapi

Chapter Eric Ramírez-Weaver (2022) Bohemian King Wenceslas IV's Copy of the Alfonsine Tables and Their Place Within his Astronomical and Astrological Corpus. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 199-240). unapi

Chapter Richard L. Kremer (2022) Exploring a Late-Fifteenth-Century Astrologer's Toolbox: British Library Add MS 34603. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 107-141). unapi

Chapter Laure Miolo (2022) Retracing the Tradition of John of Genoa's Opus astronomicum Through Extant Manuscripts. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 343-380). unapi

Chapter José Chabás (2022) New Texts and Tables Attributed to John of Lignères: Context and Analysis. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 303-316). unapi

Chapter Alexandre Tur (2022) From Computus Material to Preacher's Toolbox: Manufacturing a Bat-Book Almanac in the Fifteenth Century. In: Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record (pp. 143-198). unapi

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