Normand medieval book on astrology4/11/2024 ![]() ![]() Also Thorndike’s many articles, usually describing particular MSS. Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ![]() Watson, The manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969). James, ‘Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr John Dee’, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society Supplement 1 (1921). Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A list of surviving books, 2nd ed. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Combining the evidence provided both by surviving books and contemporary library catalogues as to the age, provenance and overall distribution of books on astrology, their owners, donors and readers, it is possible to build up a topography, albeit a partial view, of the evolution of a class of English astrologers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ![]() I have made the assumption that the best way to find English astrologers and their clients is to look for their books. In the Middle Ages, astrology was a literary and scholarly activity, dependent on the authority of written words and supposedly ancient authors, and on books. Who were the astrologers of medieval England, and where did they come from? What books did they read and where did they find them? Providing answers to these questions is the work of this chapter. ![]()
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