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Aratea

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Manuscript Information

Title of manuscript: Aratea
MS call number (and folio selected): Ms. Voss. lat. Q. 79, 28v-29r
Current location: University Library at Leiden, Holland
Place of creation: Aachen, Germany
Date of creation: Early ninth century 

Codicology and Paleography

Language(s) of text: Latin 
Script: rustic capitals 
Textual corrections
            Later: rewritten in gothic script

Provenance

Marks of ownership: Manuscript was rebound in 1989 after being taken apart for the development of facsimiles
Previous owners: Jacob Susius, Hugo Grotius, Christina of Sweden, and Isaac Vossius

Mise en page

Columns: no columns just blocks 
Lines per column: the lines vary, this page has four lines from the original text and four more from the adage.  

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: Yes
Small ink initials: Yes
Miniatures: Yes
Full page illustration: Yes

Other Information

The Aratea was made for Louis the Pious, Charlemagne's son and successor. This manuscript presents Germanicus Phaenomena, a poem about astronomy and the stories of different figures from mythology. There are 39 full-page illustrations, all located in verso pages, which depict these figures from Antiquity. 

Further readings

Christopher De Hamel's Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Marion Dolan's Astronomical Knowledge Transmission from the Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
Ranee Katsenstein and Emilie Savage-Smith's The Leiden Aratea: Ancient Constellations in a Medieval Manuscript

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