This page is referenced by:

• 1 2016-07-12T11:47:44-07:00 What is it? 33 plain 302919 2016-07-14T19:01:17-07:00

  Text

  The text deals with how to calculate daily positions of the planets and stars and provides various charts and tables to aid in calculation.

  Chapter Headings

  f. 1r​
  The firste parte
  conteynythe the ynformation of the Ephemirides
  Ffyrst consider the dysposition
  and order of the Ephemirides
  Ca 1.

  -----

  f. 2v
  To serche the Golden nowmber the Letter
  domynycall, Indictio & movable feastes Ca. 2
  
  To notifie the rarest[?] of planetts sygnes
  and asspects Ca. 3

  -----

  f. 4r
  The trewe movynge of the Sonne and
  the moone and of the 5 planetts, of the
  hedde & the tayle of the dragon of the moone
  to take or fynde owt name of every daye Ca. 4

  -----

  f. 4v
  The trewe place of the sonne and the moone
  and of the 5 planetts of the heade & of the tayle
  of the Dragon of the moone to fynde owt for
  every hower & momente of the daye Ca. 5

  -----

  f. 5r
  To Gather lernydlye the hower movynge
  of Euery planett you wyll. Ca. 6

  -----

  f. 6r
  How to fynde otherwyse that whyche
  ys tawght afore Ca. 7

  -----

  f. 6v
  To fynde owt the trewe and equate 
  argumentis of the latytude of the moone Ca. 8

  -----

  f. 7r
  To shewe the very trewe latytude of
  the moone every momente. Ca. 9

  -----

  f. 8r
  
  To determinate the 
  latytude of the 5 planets
  in certayne dayes & howers
  Ca. 10

  -----

  f. 10r
  To investigate whether the Eclypse shall be
  alongst the hed or the tayle of the Dragon
  callyd Caput & Cauda Draconis, and 
  whether it shall be wholl or partyculer / and
  yf yt be partyculer whether yt shall be Septe //
  tryonall et ys north or meridyonall which
  ys South Ca. 14
  
  To counte the thre tymys, et ys the begynyng
  the mydyll and the ende c[?]he the wholl con //
  tynnamine of every Eclypse. Ca. 15.

  -----

  f. 11r
  To shewe the taryinge of the wholl bodye 
  if the moone hyddin under darknes. Ca. 16

  -----

  f. 11v
  To know at any tyme the lengthe of the
  daye and of the nyght, and the tyme of the
  rysyng and goynge downe of the Son. Ca. 17

  -----

  f. 13r
  To forme the astronomicall howers takyn from
  the myddaye into howers takyn yn theyr begynnyng
  at the rysyng of the Son or goynge downe or 
  from mydnyght. Ca. 18.

  -----

  f. 13v
  To set owt a fygure of the hevyn artyficially
  to what momentis you will. / Ca. 19.

  -----

  f. 15r
  To sett in their placys of the sygnne of hevyn the
  planetts and fyxyd sterrys maysterlyk / Ca. 20.

  -----

  f. 16r
  The conjunctions[?] and aspectys of the Son &
  the moone and planetts accordynge to the 
  affections[?] of the fixt sterrys, [myght?] to the
  which they happen other[?] & other[?] efforts to 
  declare Ca. 21 

  -----

  f. 17r
  On the other side folowythe the table of 
  the fixt sterrys &their rysyng & goynge 
  downe and the mediation of the hevyn verfy //
  fyed to the yeare of our Lorde 1540 complete.

  -----

  f. 18r
  To know the change of the wither. Ca. 22.
   

  Provenance

  This manuscript is a fragment of a larger work, originally 160 folios, that has been referred to as Bute 13, because it was once owned by John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.  It was broken into four parts by Kraus in the late twentieth century and sold separately.  Three of the four parts are now in institutional collections: LJS 188 (part II of IV), LJS 191 (part III) and Huntington mssHM 60320 (part IV). I could not discover the whereabouts of part I. 
  
  Kurtz and Voigts note that the parts of Bute 13 were all written at different times, ranging in date from the late fifteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century.  They also suggest that the parts were written and circulated as booklets before they were bound.