Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Medical and astronomical texts
Germany, between 1450 and 1475
MS B.27 fol. 31v

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Pythagoras, name inscribed on scroll PITAGORAS, as half-figure, wearing hooded tunic, raising right hand and with left hand indicating one of six scrolls issuing from mouth, all inscribed with numerical equations.
Two other scrolls inscribed in German.