University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 761
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1659
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 761
- Title:
- Cosmographies.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [circa 1500]
- Language:
- Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 341 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm bound to 214 x 146 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); 1-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31-34¹⁰ 35⁶; [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.
3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.
Decoration: Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works.
Binding: Original tooled calf.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family (early ownership inscription in ink, f. 340v). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875023503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h98zj30/manifest
- Holding Institution:
