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An Irish corpus astronomiae; being Manus O'Donnell's seventeenth century version of the Lunario of Geronymo Cortès

Cortés, Jerónimo, d. 1615?, ÓDomhnaill, Maghnus, fl. 1694-1706, O'Connell, F. W. (Frederick William), 1876-1929, Henry, Robert Mitchell, 1873-1950 · 1915 · London : D. Nutt · 6 pictures

A 1915 scholarly edition printed by David Nutt in London, in which F. W. O'Connell and R. M. Henry publish Manus Ó Domhnaill's late seventeenth-century Irish rendering of Jerónimo Cortés's Spanish Lunario, for Celticists and historians of astrology. The plates are line redrawings of manuscript diagrams: a labelled wind and climate-zone wheel with Latin banners, a quartered circle with tick-marked rim and scattered star glyphs, and ruled tables of numbered days with letter abbreviations.

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