Volvelle from BL Harley 941, f. 29v
Volvelle for calculating Easter, other movable feasts, Sunday letters, the Golden Number and the leap year, with a figure (a woman?) in the centre. Image taken from f. 29v of A literary and scientific miscellan... More
Volvelle from BL Sloane 4100, recto
Volvelle Image taken from recto of Volvelle. Written in English. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a physician and naturalist who played a crucial role in the development of British museums and libraries. Sloane... More
Volvelle from BL Eg 848, f. 22 - Public domain medieval manuscript
Volvelle with three moving parts representing the zodiac, the sun, and the moon, and showing their relative positions and the moon's phases, and astronomical diagram. Image taken from f. 22 of Medical miscellan... More
Volvelle from BL Harley 13, f. 5
Text page with volvelle. Image taken from f. 5 of Miscellaneous scientific treatises. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in ... More
Volvelle from BL Sloane 702, ff. 21v-22
A volvelle, a device with a moveable disc rotating with a fixed matrix, with a pointing moveable index of the sun (here painted yellow to represent the sun) which could be set at the sign and degree of the zod... More
Zodiac man; volvelle from BL Eg 2572, ff. 50v-51
On the left, a drawing of zodiac man, with parts of the body linked to their governing zodiac symbols with labels and numerals. On the right is a volvelle, with movable pointer, with depictions of the signs of ... More
Volvelle from BL Sloane 405, f. 4
A volvelle, a device with moveable discs rotating with a fixed matrix, the pointing moveable index of which could be set at the sign and degree of the zodiac for a particular day in order to predict the best ti... More
Volvelle from BL Harley 13, f. 5
Text page with volvelle. Image taken from f. 5 of Miscellaneous scientific treatises. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library in ... More
![[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar year]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE0NzQvMDEvMDEvYS12b2x2ZWxsZS1zaG93aW5nLXRoZS1tb3ZlbWVudC1vZi10aGUtbW9vbi10aHJvdWdob3V0LXRoZS1jYWxlbmRhci15ZWFyLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar year]")
[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar y...
Illus. in: 1st ed. of Regiomontanus' Calendarium, Nuremburg, 1474. See: QJ, Jan. 1965. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cale... More
P.9 a volvella of the moon. A volvella is a moveable device for workin...
This part of the manuscript contains an assortment of texts about astrology and medicine. This combination was common in manuscripts all over Europe by the fifteenth century. To people in the Middle Ages there ... More
MS. Ashmole 370 fol - Public domain dedication image
Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.
Astronomicum Caesareum
A page from Petrus Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum.
Astronomicum Caesareum - Peter Apianus - btv1b550076223 (022 of 114)
Français : Sujet : Astronomie Univers Couverture : Ciel Langue : latin Éditeur : Ioannes Obernburger (Datum in Civitate nostra Imperiali Ratispona)
Astronomicum Caesareum - Peter Apianus - btv1b550076223 (024 of 114)
Français : Sujet : Astronomie Univers Couverture : Ciel Langue : latin Éditeur : Ioannes Obernburger (Datum in Civitate nostra Imperiali Ratispona)
Astronomicum Caesareum - Peter Apianus - btv1b550076223 (066 of 114)
Français : Sujet : Astronomie Univers Couverture : Ciel Langue : latin Éditeur : Ioannes Obernburger (Datum in Civitate nostra Imperiali Ratispona)
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani Mathematici studiose collectus - Pet...
Français : Sujet : Cosmographie Univers Monde Comprend : Sans titre ; Sans titre ; Sans titre ; Coelum empirreum habitaculum Dei & omnium electorum ; Sphaera mundi ; Sans titre ; Sans titre ; Harum rerum hanc ... More
Lyon 3e - Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon Part-Dieu - Dans les marges ...
Français : Figura Henrici IV. Galliarum regis, volvelle du thème astral de la naissance d'Henri IV, s. d.
Äquatorium 01 (cropped)
Deutsch: Johann Schöner: Äquatorium aus Papier zur Darstellung der Planetenbahn des Saturn)
Äquatorium 01 - Public domain dedication image
Deutsch: Johann Schöner: Äquatorium aus Papier zur Darstellung der Planetenbahn des Saturn)
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Français : volvelle terrestre
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Français : volvelle "lunaison" Public domain reproduction of illuminated book or manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
