20.364 the Evangelium Longum & the Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona unpuzzled

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         Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:34:32 +0000
         From: Gerhard Brey <gerhard.brey_at_KCL.AC.UK>
         Subject: Re: 20.358 puzzled by the Evangelium Longum & by
the Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona

The Astronomical Clock is supposed to be a Horologium Nocturnum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_(instrument)

There is an article by Joachim Wiesenbach about this clock and
this illustration in:

Butzer, P.L.; Lohrmann, D. (Eds.): Science in Western and Eastern
Civilization in Carolingian Times. Basel, Boston, Berlin:
Birkhaeuser Verlag, 1993. Pp. 605. ISBN 3-7643-2863-0

In the manuscript the area of the circle was cut out after the
text on this page and the verso was written.

Gerhard

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On Mon December 18 2006 06:08, Humanist Discussion Group (by way
of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
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  >          Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:03:21 +0000
  >          From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
  >           > Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona
  >
  > After spending an inordinate amount of time looking at the
  > Codices Electronici Sangallenses recommended by Dr McCarty, I
  > have two questions that are going to be the end of me.
  >
  > The first regards the cover of the Evangelium Longum. Out of
  > all the encrusted stones, one is different, it appears to me
  > to be an intaglio. Why? I can't believe because it was close
  > by and some fellow simply picked it up.
  >
  > The second involves the illustration of the Astronomical Clock
  > of Pacificus of Verona...what is that instrument in his hand?
  >
  > Thank you,
  >
  > Jean
  >
  >
  >
  > J. M. Shepherd
  > Charlotte, North Carolina
  >
  >
  > Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre
  > for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
  > http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.