University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1217

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30271

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1217

Title:

Astronomia; pars mathematicae /

Author:

Appenzeller, Johann, d. 1603

Johannes Appenzeller WIKIDATA

Place:

Ingolstadt, Germany

Ingolstadt TGN

Germany TGN

Date:

1599-1604?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 162 leaves : paper ; 197 x 159 mm bound to 27 x 165 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit (Work 1): Astronomia agit de corpore simplici, circa centrum mobili, quas tuor praecipuas habet partes... (f. i recto); Explicit (Work 1): ...iri qualium diameter continet in universum duodecim atq[ue] h[?]s de theoria et reliquis Astronomiae p[ar]tib[us] (f. 113v).
Incipit (Work 2): Cum ars doctrina teste Ar[istot]le... (f. 116r); Explicit (2): ...[de] signo [pro]posito multis [?] (f. 161r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 161 + i (modern paper); 1-24, 24-26, 29, 2, 31, 28, 32, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, [1-161], upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 19-34 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Table of eclipses at the latitude of the University of Ingolstadt (f. i verso); table of astrolabe measurements of stars (f. 82r); marginal notes.
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Ingolstadt, Germany, ca. 1599-1604.
Gift of Orville H. Bullitt (sold by Tenner), 1970.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

lecture notes

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, European

Solar system

Astronomy

Early works

Ethics

Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9943245903503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania