De Sphaera - Facsimile Editions and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

#AntiqueScientific"The De Sphaera is nowadays considered as the most beautifully decorated astrology book of the Renaissance.
This masterpiece, crafted around 1470 by the famous illuminator Cristoforo de Predis, shows a particularly complex structure.
It appears to be composed of two very distinct parts — the first is characterized by Latin descriptions narrating astronomical events such as eclipses and tides, and the latter, written in vernacular, deals with the symbolic meaning of planets and zodiac signs."