Newberry Library, VAULT Ayer MS 740

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17810

Shelfmark:

VAULT Ayer MS 740

Title:

Cosmographia

Cosmographia

Author:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Ptolemy WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 159 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 300 x 315 (195 x 145) mm

Former Owner(s):

Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927

Edward E. Ayer WIKIDATA

Stevens, Henry, Jr., 1819-1886

Henry Stevens WIKIDATA

Stevens, Henry Newton, 1855-1930

Stevens Henry Newton WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper (watermarks of monts and licorne, not in Briquet), fol. 159; 14 2-1210 1310(8-10 missing) 144(+1) 15-168 178 (unidentified leaf missing) 186 194; leaves signed in at least three sequences; catchwords for text 1 within rectangular decoration, sometimes touched with violet.
Layout: fol. 5r-116v written in 35 lines two columns; fol. 122r-122v written in 40 lines, this and following portion only beginning on the first ruled line; fol. 129r-130r written in 44 lines in two columns; fol. 135-141 written in 44 long lines; fol. 150r-155v written in about 35 long lines; ruled in hard point, lead point, and pen.
Script: fol. 5r-116v written in Italian hybrida media; fol. 122r-122v: written in Italian hybrida media; fol. 129r-130r written in Italian hybrida currens; fol. 135r-141r written in Italian hybrida media with trailing terminal "s"; fol. 150r-155v written in Italian hybrida media; fol. 5r-16r, 122r-122v, and 158r-156r all by one scribe, in brown in now eating into the paper; all other texts...
Origin: Written in Italy in the middle of the 15th century.
Provenance: Fol. 5, "Yhesus Maria," written below a hollow pen cross, touched with violet; fol. 1, "Cosmographia Claudii Tholomei," written by an Italian hand, 17-18th century; below, a circular white sticker, partially removed, with "038" (?) written in black ink; "CHJ" written in black in in the lower inner corner on the verso of the last leaf.
Formerly in the Ptolemy Collection of Henry Stevens.
Bookplate: Edward E. Ayer.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Keyword:

bastarda

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Astronomy

Charts, diagrams, etc.

Geography, Ancient

Tides

Cosmography

Early works

Geography

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998749078805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQXA9CR

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library