{"id":3186,"date":"2018-07-24T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:03:16","slug":"adventures-of-our-2018-interns-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2018\/07\/24\/adventures-of-our-2018-interns-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures of our 2018 interns part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to our series of blog posts summarising some of the more eye-catching, fascinating and curious items found in our Maddison Collection<\/a>, which is being carefully looked-after and researched this summer by our fantastic interns Philip and Janee.<\/p>\n

Today, let’s take a look at one of the older items in the Maddison Collection: 1D1, which is a series of small astrological books bound together:<\/p>\n

\"Starry<\/a>

Starry fish in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lunar<\/a>

Lunar charts in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More hand-painted lunar charts in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Drawing<\/a>

Drawing of a heliocentric universe in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Illustrations<\/a>

Illustrations of Roman gods in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Even<\/a>

Even more hand-painted lunar charts in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Manuscript<\/a>

Manuscript annotations in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A dog on a ship in ‘Nouicijs adolescetib’: ad astronomica remp: capessenda aditu impenetratib’ by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, 1482, Venice (Maddison Collection, 1D1)<\/p><\/div>\n

Like what you see here? Books from the Maddison Collection can be requested through LibrarySearch<\/a> (for internal University of Kent members only) or by contacting us (for everyone).<\/p>\n

This blog post is part two of an ongoing summer series exploring our Maddison Collection; more in depth posts will be coming soon. For part one, please see here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n