Historic Maps. Checklist of Western Medieval, Byzantine, and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library Now Online | RBSC Manuscripts Division News. Click to open or download PDF: “Checklist of Western Medieval, Byzantine, and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library and the Scheide Library.” The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has very significant holdings of western medieval, Byzantine, and Renaissance manuscripts, ranging in date from the 8th to 16th centuries. Most of them are in the Manuscripts Division, in the collections of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897; Robert Taylor, Class of 1930; Grenville Kane; and the growing Princeton Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
This checklist is not a catalogue, but rather a listing of more than 500 manuscrits in the Princeton University Library and the Scheide Library by holding unit, collection, and manuscript number or shelfmark. Links are given for well over 2,000 digital images of miniatures, illustrations, and selected diagrams and decoration in the manuscripts, about a third of which are illuminated. The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth Century Byzantium - Steven Runciman. Indiana University Digital Library Program | Home. Contributor.author: title.none: Magdalino, L'Orthodoxie des astrologues (Daryn Lehoux) identifier.other: baj9928.0709.012 07.09.12 identifier.issn: 1096-746X description.statementofresponsibility: Daryn Lehoux, University of Manchester, daryn.lehoux@manchester.ac.uk publisher.none: . date.issued: 2007 identifier.citation: Magdalino, Paul. Type.none: Review relation.ispartof: The Medieval Review From the point of view of the history of the sciences, this is a story not often told.
This book moves seamlessly between the worlds of politics, theology, and science, and it is here that astrology shows itself to be such a most judicious choice of subject. Magdalino's focus is specifically on astrology and its relationship to Orthodox Christianity. Magdalino looks primarily at authors in and surrounding the imperial court. Indiana University Digital Library Program | Home. Byzantine Court Culture from 829 To 1204. Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the ...
Byzantine Astrology: Anna Comnena, Niketas Choniates, Manuel Comnenus. Introduction to Byzantine Astrology During the 5th and 6th centuries AD, Byzantium (the Eastern Roman Empire) boasted a host of astrologers: Hephaestion, Julian of Laodicea, "Proclus," Rhetorius, and John Lydus. Though their works are singularly unoriginal compilations, they remain the major sources for an understanding of earlier Hellenistic astrology. By the end of the 6th century, however, the general decline of the Byzantine Empire's intellectual life and the strong opposition of the church had combined to virtually obliterate astrology, though some practice of reading celestial omens survived in Byzantium as it did in western Europe.
The science was revived only in the late 8th century and the 9th century under the impact of translations from Syriac and Arabic. The period from about 800 to 1200 was the most propitious for Byzantine astrology, though nothing was essentially added to astrological theories or techniques. Anna Comnena's Comments on Astrology. Byzantine Astrology during the Reign of Manuel I Komnenos | Blogs | Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science. Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/10 at 10:33 PM Anne-Laurence Caudano’s talk on Byzantine astrology—“Controversies and scientific activities of the Byzantine clergy in the reign of Manuel I Komnenos (1143‐1180)—surveyed two letters that, she claimed, reveal the ways astronomy was purged of astrological influence and how, more broadly, science had to conform to orthodoxy. She opened by summarizing Manuel I’s defense of astrology. His defense rested on three pillars: proper astrology could be distinguished from demonic magic, the stars were not efficient causes, Biblical examples and quotations from Church fathers who did not condemn astrology.
Manuel I’s defense was, according to Caudano, simple and easily refuted. He had, for example, misused or misquoted most of his Biblical and patristic sources. Manuel I Komnenos—a supporter of astrology (Source: from the wikipedia entry) Caudano’s paper raises some questions. Tags: astrology, byzantine astrology, byzantine science Permalink. The Origin Of The Zodiac. Occidental Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period The Entry of Arabic Star Names into Europe by Gary D. Thompson Copyright © 2001-2014 by Gary D. Thompson Return To Site Contents Page The Entry of Arabic Star Names into Europe Introduction Richard Allen in his highly influential book Star-Names and Their Meanings (1899) stated that European star names came chiefly from the Arabs. Present-day Western constellation names (and some star names) originated from a number of Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures. Note: To avoid misunderstandings the term Arab-Islamic needs to be defined.
The leading expert on star names in Arab-Islamic astronomy, the German historian Paul Kunitzsch, has identified two traditions of star names in Muslim heritage. A large amount of Arab-Islamic star nomenclature found its way into the Latin (European) astronomy of the Middle Ages. The transmission of Arab-Islamic star names to Western Europe was accomplished in 3 distinct phases. Arab-Islamic World. History of Constellation and Star Names. The illustrations on this page have been compiled from a variety of sources. If advised that copyright has been infringed I will immediately remove the particular illustration(s). Return To Section Index Page G: Greek Constellations 14: Sphaera Barbarica and Sphaera Graecanica Zodiac of Cairo' or the 'Daressy Zodiac.' It dates from the Roman Imperial Period. 'Zodiac of Cairo' or the 'Daressy Zodiac' Roman-period Greek zodiac that is loosely called the 'Zodiac of Cairo' or the 'Daressy Zodiac.' The dodekaoros was a system of 36 "decans" according to which 3 "paranatellonta" were attached to each sign of the zodiac.
Depicted on the Daressy Zodiac are the Greek zodiacal signs and associated animals according to a doctrine called "Dodekaoros. " The pairs pictorially depicted (juxtapositioned) on the Daressy Zodiac are: Aries (ram (with belt): cat (sitting), Taurus (bull): dog, (or jackal) Gemini (twins (man and woman): serpent, Cancer (crab): scarabaeus/crab, Leo (lion): donkey/ass, TheOccultSciencesinByzantium. Byzantine Science | Darin Hayton. Appended to a seventeenth-century translation of Marcus Manilius’s Astronomica is a canonical list of astronomers and astrologers since antiquity.
Included in this canon was the fourteenth-century Byzantine polymath Nikephoros Gregoras. When I first read this it surprised me. Gregoras was one of the most important intellectuals of the late Byzantine period who enjoyed access to the highest echelons of political power in Constantinople. He is best known for his history of the late Byzantine Empire as well as a handful of commentaries on classical texts, but he is not typically associated with important works on astronomy or astrology.
Here, however, he was remembered for his work on that quintessential medieval astronomical instrument, the astrolabe.