![ASTROLOGY – Nicolo BONSIGNORE. Astrological manual, c.1579, apparently an authorial manuscript. Rubrics and certain astrological symbols in red ink, c.72 pages featuring astrological tables, and 8 subject diagrams including horoscopes. In Italian and Latin, 134 written leaves, folio (265 x 180mm), (stain to the margin of f.53). Contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties (stained, worn at edges). Provenance: above a poem introducing the manuscript on f.1 is inscribed ‘Nicolo Bonsig[no]re M.P. 1579’; at the base of f.2 ‘Jo Bap.[tis]ta Bonsignorius’.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0251_000(astrology_nicolo_bonsignore_astrological_manual_c1579_apparently_an_au054837).jpg?w=1)
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ASTROLOGY – Nicolo BONSIGNORE. Astrological manual, c.1579, apparently an authorial manuscript. Rubrics and certain astrological symbols in red ink, c.72 pages featuring astrological tables, and 8 subject diagrams including horoscopes. In Italian and Latin, 134 written leaves, folio (265 x 180mm), (stain to the margin of f.53). Contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties (stained, worn at edges). Provenance: above a poem introducing the manuscript on f.1 is inscribed ‘Nicolo Bonsig[no]re M.P. 1579’; at the base of f.2 ‘Jo Bap.[tis]ta Bonsignorius’.
An elegantly-written astrological manual, a detailed display of 16th-century subject knowledge. The otherwise unrecorded author brings together all the necessary information a contemporary might need to read the planets and the stars, most important in the calculation of horoscopes. Astrological tables are found throughout the manuscript, with the corresponding texts they treat – amongst many topics – the determination of the golden number of moveable feasts, the cycles of the sun and the moon, friend and enemy planets, the effect the planets have on the human body (on the pain in specific body parts), the movement of the ascending lunar node from 1562 to1590, astrological houses by latitude, and which countries and cities of the world are ruled by which zodiac signs (England, Naples and Florence come under the influence of Aries, for example).
An elegantly-written astrological manual, a detailed display of 16th-century subject knowledge. The otherwise unrecorded author brings together all the necessary information a contemporary might need to read the planets and the stars, most important in the calculation of horoscopes. Astrological tables are found throughout the manuscript, with the corresponding texts they treat – amongst many topics – the determination of the golden number of moveable feasts, the cycles of the sun and the moon, friend and enemy planets, the effect the planets have on the human body (on the pain in specific body parts), the movement of the ascending lunar node from 1562 to1590, astrological houses by latitude, and which countries and cities of the world are ruled by which zodiac signs (England, Naples and Florence come under the influence of Aries, for example).
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