University of Pennsylvania, LJS 188
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS119
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 188
- Title:
- Ynstruction of the ephimeredes
- Author:
- Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- circa 1540
- Language:
- Middle English
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 20 leaves : paper ; 188 x 142 (146-156 x 107) mm bound to 196 x 152 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Alleyn, James
Stanitz, John D
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, ii (modern) + ii + 20 + i + ii (modern); 112 25 34(-1); [1-20], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Text pages written in 24-31 long lines; 6 tables are in various arrangements of rows and columns.
Script: Written in a secretary script.
Decoration: Tables in brown and red ink; 6-line initial on red and silver ground with red flourishes (f. 1r); 3-line initials in red, or on a ground of red or brown penwork, or on red ground, or simply outlined in ink (some spaces for initials left blank with guide letters visible); initials touched with red throughout, some underlining in red; 2 pages frame-ruled in red ink (f. 1v-2r).
Binding: Modern calf (after Sotheby's sale in 1983).
Origin: Written in England, circa 1540 (f. 17r).
The first part of Bute MS 13 (f. 1r-46v), including a copy of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe, was purchased after 1988 by Shozo Asahata (Nara, Japan); current location unknown (Kurtz and Voigts).
Formerly owned by James Alleyn (signature in another part of parent manuscript).
Parent manuscript formerly held in the library of the Marquesses of Bute, Ms. 13.
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Bute collection, 13 June 1983, lot 32 (part 6).
Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 180 (1988), no. 134, and cat. 186 (1991), no. 35.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 19.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950289983503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3m05g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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