University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 69
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1603
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 69
- Title:
- Miscellany of scientific treatises.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 123 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 207 x 140 (148 x 85) mm bound to 215 x 145 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833
Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854
Strong, George Templeton, 1820-1875
- Note:
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in a single hand, with a second, slightly later hand beginning on f. 120v.
Origin: Written in Germany, in the third quarter of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: Diagram of alchemical devices (f. 22v); sketches in ink of crowns (f. 9v, 23r); 4-line and 5-line puzzle initials in red and green (f. 2r, 47r), alternating green or red initials and paragraph marks throughout; red underlining throughout; various chemical and alchemical symbols used in the text and marginalia.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 26-29 long lines; ruled in lead.
Collation: Paper, i + 123 + i; 1¹², 2-7¹⁰, 8¹⁰(+1), 9-12¹⁰; 1-75, [i], 76-122; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Gatherings signed a-i, k-m, lower right recto of leaves in first half of each gathering.
Title supplied by cataloger; title written in Latin on upper cover is too abraded to be read easily.
Binding: Contemporary boards with remains of bronze clasp; rebacked with 19th-century morocco; spine is worn, particularly at the hinges. Title (abraded) written on upper cover. The second and last quires and the front endleaf are pulling loose. A few leaves are torn.
Watermark: Piccard XIII. iii. 1638 (ca. 1483); also, cf. Piccard IV. xii. 252 and 253 (ca. 1487 and 1488).
Formerly owned by George T. Strong (signature, dated 1839, f. [i] recto); sold at auction at Bangs & Co., 4 Nov. 1878, lot 1061.
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (signature, dated 1878, f. [i] recto; bookplate inside lower cover).
Passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
Possibly formerly owned by Richard Heber (inscription referring to Heber's sale, f. [i] recto).
Formerly owned by Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss (Frankfurt am Main); sold at auction at Sotheby's to Rodd, 7 May 1835, lot 4567. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915455713503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h36z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
