University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 922

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DS ID:

DS1727

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 922

Title:

Monocordium.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1450?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with two recipes in Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 16 leaves : paper ; 208 x 148 (170 x 100) mm

Note:

Ms. gathering.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1450.
Title from f. 1r.
Decoration: Illustration on f. 5r: conventional rudimentary diagram of a monochord, showing divisions of music intervals.
Script: Written in a secretary cursive script with a humanistic script on f.15v-16v.
Layout: Written 24-26 lines per page; frame-ruled in lead.
Collation: Paper, 16; 1¹⁶; 109-124; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.

Keyword:

recipes

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Handbooks and manuals

manuals (instructional materials)

poems

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Encheiridion harmonikēs (Nicomachus, of Gerasa)

Monochord

Ink

Pigments

De institutione musica (Boethius)

Poetics (Aristotle)

Music theory

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Early works

Pigments--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942279563503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k54h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania