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[Monocordium]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k54h
Title: [Monocordium]
Alt Title: De monocordio et de atramento
Date: 1450
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Poems, Recipes, Treatises, Manuals (instructional materials), Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Handbooks and manuals, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Collection of works, including a treatise on music theory focusing on tonality as illustrated by the Pythagorean monochord and philosophers like Aristotle, Nicomachus, and Boethius; recipes and instructions for making various types of ink, stain removers, toothache remedies; a love poem in a later hand; two recipes in Italian.
Extent: 16 leaves : paper ; 208 x 148 (170 x 100) mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. gathering., Title from f. 1r., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-6v: Monocordium., Table of contents: 2. f.6v-15r: De atramento., Table of contents: 3. 15v-16r: [Poem in Latin], Table of contents: 4. 16v: [Recipes in Italian], Collation: Paper, 16; 1¹⁶; 109-124; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto., Layout: Written 24-26 lines per page; frame-ruled in lead., Script: Written in a secretary cursive script with a humanistic script on f.15v-16v., Decoration: Illustration on f. 5r: conventional rudimentary diagram of a monochord, showing divisions of music intervals., Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1450., Latin, with two recipes in Italian.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k54h
Subject: Aristotle. Poetics Early works to 1800, Boethius, -524. De institutione musica, Nicomachus, of Gerasa. Encheiridion harmonikēs, Pythagoras and Pythagorean school -- Early works to 1800, Monochord -- Early works to 1800, Music theory -- Early works to 1800, Music theory, Ink, Pigments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Pigments, Monochord, Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 922
Provenance: Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9942279563503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3k54h/manifest

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