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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. 1rThe firste parte
conteynythe the ynformation of the Ephemirides
Ffyrst consider the dysposition
and order of the Ephemirides
Ca 1.
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f. 2vTo serche the Golden nowmber the Letter
domynycall, Indictio & movable feastes Ca. 2
To notifie the rarest[?] of planetts sygnes
and asspects Ca. 3
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f. 4rThe 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
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f. 4vThe 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
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f. 5rTo Gather lernydlye the hower movynge
of Euery planett you wyll. Ca. 6
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f. 6rHow to fynde otherwyse that whyche
ys tawght afore Ca. 7
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f. 6vTo fynde owt the trewe and equate
argumentis of the latytude of the moone Ca. 8
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f. 7rTo shewe the very trewe latytude of
the moone every momente. Ca. 9
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f. 8rTo determinate the
latytude of the 5 planets
in certayne dayes & howers
Ca. 10
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f. 10rTo 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.
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f. 11rTo shewe the taryinge of the wholl bodye
if the moone hyddin under darknes. Ca. 16
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f. 11vTo 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
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f. 13rTo 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.
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f. 13vTo set owt a fygure of the hevyn artyficially
to what momentis you will. / Ca. 19.
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f. 15rTo sett in their placys of the sygnne of hevyn the
planetts and fyxyd sterrys maysterlyk / Ca. 20.
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f. 16rThe 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
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f. 18rTo 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.
On the other side folowythe the table of
the fixt sterrys &their rysyng & goynge
downe and the mediation of the hevyn recty //
fyed to the yeare of our Lorde 1540 complete.
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