Manuscript Description Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 359B part 7 | |
| Title: | Miscellany containing Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Signs of zodiac; four elements; planets; sphere; geomancy; astrolabe; astrology |
| Language: | English |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | Early fifteenth century |
| Material: | Paper for Astrolabe |
| No of Folios: | 171 of which ff68r-91r are the Astrolabe |
| Pagination: | Foliation 1-24 may be seen in the middle at the top of each folio in a light brown ink. Looks later than the manuscript itself. |
| Quiring: | 2 x 12 |
| Signatures: | Original signatures 1-6 may be seen in the bottom right corner of the second quire. |
| Catchwords: | None |
| Page Size: | 207 x 142 (now mounted on paper guards) |
| Frame: | No frame; no ruling |
| Writing Space: | Not margined or ruled and text and diagrams fill the space. |
| Incipits and Explicits: | In red ink fitted around diagrams or at the top of the folio. |
| Marginal Headings: | In red ink around diagrams |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red |
| Further Information: | 'Treatises and notes on the signs of the zodiac, the four elements, the planets, the sphere, geomancy, the astrolabe, astrology etc. Part of the manuscript is written in cryptic writing'. [NLW Handlist, Vol. 1] |