*NEW Sept. 2019:* Digital Edition of UPenn LJS 445This anthology exemplifies the fluid boundaries between manuscript and print traditions in the late fifteenth century. It contains material from three printed books:
Johannes Lichtenberger’s Prognosticatio (Heidelberg, 1488; a book of astrological predictions about the Church and the Holy Roman Empire) and two editions of Regiomontanus’s calendar (Nuremberg, 1474; Venice, 1478).These pages are part of a treatise on the constellations based on descriptions by Michael Scotus (1174-c. 1232), court astrologer to Frederick II. A prominent mathematician, philosopher, and translator, Scotus developed a much-copied list of constellations in his
Liber introductorius, including two (Tarabellum and Vexillum, or the Drill and Standard) that he invented. The miniatures on display show Piscis Austrinus, Ara/Puteus (the Altar), Centaurus, and Corvus perched on Hydra; Corvus has been damaged by a reader cutting out Canis Minor on the verso.