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This article analyses the relationship between text and image in one of the most important scientific manuscripts commissioned by Alfonso X the Learned, El Libro del Saber de Astrología (Ms. 156 BH Complutense University, Madrid). The main topic deals with the depiction of astrolabes in the four treatises devoted to this instrument in the codex, and the connexion established between the real astrolabes, the depicted ones, and the written sources used by the Alfonsine team.
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This page is a summary of: Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro del saber de astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments, Medieval Encounters, September 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12342249.
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