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John Farley (d. 1464) and the Finessing of MS 281
Issue number
(2021): 15
New College, Oxford, MS 281 contains a copy of Ptolemy’s Almagesta in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, written in a steady gothic bookhand, for which a date around the third quarter of the thirteenth century may be suggested. Both text and decoration have distinct interest.
New College Library, Oxford, MS 281, f. 170v