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Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso the Wise Facsimile Edition

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The Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso the Wise is a stunningly beautiful manuscript catalog of constellations attributed to Alfonso X, "the wise," King of Castile and Leon. Created in northern Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century, the manuscript presents the forty-eight Ptolemaic constellations in forty-six unframed miniatures showing the defining celestial bodies as eight-pointed gold and silver stars on prominent red and blue dots. A Latin-language list of the stars describing their placement within the figure and according to declination ("latitude") and right ascension ("longitude") accompanies each painting.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso the Wise": Tablas de las Constelaciones de Alfonso X el Sabio facsimile edition, published by Patrimonio Ediciones, 2006

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Manuscript book description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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Tablas de las Constelaciones de Alfonso X el Sabio

Valencia: Patrimonio Ediciones, 2006

  • Commentary (English, German, Spanish) by Domínguez Rodríguez, Ana; Treviño Gajardo, Pilar; Martinez Gázquez, José
  • Limited Edition: 999 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Book of Fixed Stars of Alfonso the Wise: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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Leather over wooden boards.

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