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Tractatum de spera ... [etc.]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3133g
Title: Tractatum de spera ... [etc.]
Alt Title: Tractatus de sphaera
Name: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Date: 1256
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices (bound manuscripts), Diagrams, Illuminations, Treatises, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Collection of three scientific works, nearly contemporary with the life of the author: one work on cosmology and astronomy, one on arithmetic, and one on the division of time according to the movements of the sun and moon. The first work originally followed the second and third, and the beginning of the second work is missing.
Extent: 58 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 165 x 110 (97 x 59) mm bound to 171 x 120 mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works to 1800, Early works to 1900
Note: Ms. codex., Title from incipit (f. 1r)., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-19v: [Sphaera mundi], Table of contents: 2. f.20r-28v: [Algorismus, or Tractatus de arte numerandi, beginning missing], Table of contents: 3. f.29r-58r: [Computus lunaris, or De computo ecclesiastico], Foliation: Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 58 + i (modern parchment); 1⁸(-1) 2¹² 3⁸(-2) 4⁸(-1) 5⁸(-1) 6⁶ 7⁸ 8⁶(-1); contemporary foliation in ink, [59], 60-77, 3-44, [45], upper right recto, many trimmed; modern foliation in pencil, [1-45, 45-57], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Gatherings 3-7 have framed horizontal catchwords, lower right verso (f. 25v, 32v leading to a missing leaf, 39v, 45v, 52v)., Layout: Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in lead with double bounding lines (2 double bounding lines in outer margins)., Script: Written in Gothic book script by a single hand., Decoration: 3 8-line historiated initials related stylistically to those of the Bari workshop showing the author teaching astronomy to 2 students, all tonsured (f. 1r, 29r, 43v); 7 illustrations including a diagram of the zones of the earth (painted, f. 16v); diagrams of the movements of the sun and moon around the earth and lunar and solar eclipses (colored drawings, f. 18r, 19r, 19v); a circular image of a serpent biting its tail (painted, f. 36r); a table of solar conjunctions (painted, f. 40r); and an image of circles surrounding a flower (painted, f. 55v); first lines next to historiated initials in ornamented display uncials (f. 1r, 29r); 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork infilling and marginal extensions in red and blue; rubrics in red gothic script or black chancery script; paragraph marks in red or blue., Binding: Modern velvet., Origin: Probably written in Paris between 1256 and 1270., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Latin.
Relation: Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333029, The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3133g, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs216.html
Subject: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900, Arithmetic, Astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmology -- Early works to 1800, Cosmology, Time measurements -- Early works to 1800, Time measurements
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 216
Provenance: Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ms. Astron. 11/Ms. 56., Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1089., Handled by Maggs Bros.; appeared in a Sam Fogg Ltd. catalog (Autumn/Winter 1995)., Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 47., Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Honeyman, Robert B., former owner., Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948124823503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3133g/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:: DS136
Shelfmark:: LJS 216
Title:: Tractatum de spera ... [etc.

Sphaera mundi
Author:: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230

Johannes de Sacrobosco WIKIDATA
Place:: Paris?, France

Paris TGN

France TGN
Date:: between 1256 and 1270

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Latin

Latin WIKIDATA
Material:: parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT
Physical Description:: Extent: 58 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 165 x 110 (97 x 59) mm bound to 171 x 120 mm
Former Owner(s):: Honeyman, Robert B

Robert Brodhead Honeyman WIKIDATA
Stanitz, John D

John D. Stanitz WIKIDATA
Note:: Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 58 + i (modern parchment); 18(-1) 212 38(-2) 48(-1) 58(-1) 66 78 86(-1); contemporary foliation in ink, [59], 60-77, 3-44, [45], upper right recto, many trimmed; modern foliation in pencil, [1-45, 45-57], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Gatherings 3-7 have framed horizontal catchwords, lower right verso (f. 25v...
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in lead with double bounding lines (2 double bounding lines in outer margins).
Script: Written in Gothic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: 3 8-line historiated initials related stylistically to those of the Bari workshop showing the author teaching astronomy to 2 students, all tonsured (f. 1r, 29r, 43v); 7 illustrations including a diagram of the zones of the earth (painted, f. 16v); diagrams of the movements of the sun and moon around the earth and lunar and solar eclipses (colored drawings, f. 18r, 19r, 19v); a...
Binding: Modern velvet.
Origin: Probably written in Paris between 1256 and 1270.
Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ms. Astron. 11/Ms. 56.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1089.
Handled by Maggs Bros.; appeared in a Sam Fogg Ltd. catalog (Autumn/Winter 1995).
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 47.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Keyword:: codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Latin

Thirteenth century

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Cosmology

Time measurements

Astronomy, Medieval

Early works

Astronomy

Arithmetic
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948124823503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3133g/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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