University of Pennsylvania, LJS 216
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS136
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 216
- Title:
- Tractatum de spera ... [etc.
- Author:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Place:
- Paris?, France
- Date:
- between 1256 and 1270
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations
- 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
Stanitz, John D
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948124823503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3133g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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