Purchased at the Aldenham Library Sale, 1937, through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund MS M.800, fol. 1370, Illuminated by Niccolò da Bologna (Niccolò di Giacomo ca. The border features the twelve signs of the zodiac. Earth is shown at the center of the universe, orbited by the sun, moon, and other planets. A full-page miniature enhances this German translation of the Latin work. It also describes the heavens as observed from various points on the earth’s curved surface. Sacrobosco’s text covers the spherical nature of the universe, as well as planetary motion and eclipses. His fame rests on this widely read astronomical treatise, which incorporates findings of earlier astronomers, including Islamic scholars, leaders in the field. People in the Middle Ages understood that the world was round, as explained in De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World) by Johannes de Sacrobosco, who taught mathematics at the University of Paris. Shown here are examples of the Morgan’s objects currently featured in the East Room and Rotunda. These selections, which rotate three times a year, provide an opportunity for Morgan curators to spotlight individual items in different ways-to consider their historical and aesthetic contexts, artistic techniques, and some of the stories behind these artifacts and their creators. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.
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