University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 826

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1678

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 826

Title:

Liber de astronomia.

De astronomia

Author:

Jābir ibn Aflah, Abū Muhammad, 12th cent

Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥ WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1300?]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 261 x 198 (193 x 128) mm bound to 270 x 203 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 1828-1897

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo WIKIDATA

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930

Wilfrid Voynich WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Written in 50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Illegible note with the date 1440 (f. 63v).
Title from title page (front flyleaf recto).
Foliation: Parchment, ii + 64 + i; [1-64]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Gothic script by several hands.
Decoration: Decorated initial in red and blue (f. 1r); decorative ascenders and descenders added by a later hand beginning at the end of Book 5 (f. 31v), some with red ink (f. 33v-34r); trigonometric and spherical trigonometric diagrams throughout, most commonly in the margins; occasionally the text is shaped to accommodate a larger diagram (for example, f. 23v); replacement strips for...
Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in France, but possibly written in Spain, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue) or ca. 1250-1300 (Thomas R. Adams).
Incipit: Scientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam fidei.
Contemporary and near-contemporary marginal notes in several hands throughout.
Explicit: ... i[n] duo media s[ed] q[uod] e[st] i[n] figura prima.
Purchased, 1949.
Formerly owned by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1920 (Thomas R. Adams).
Formerly owned by Don A. Canovas del Castillo (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Astronomy

Early works

Trigonometry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931800413503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xg9fb7v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania