Boston Public Library, MS q Med.80

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3546

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.80

Title:

Astronomical miscellany : in Latin].

Place:

Austria?]

Austria TGN

Date:

1319.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 98 leaves : parchment ; 258 x 185 (185 x 135) mm bound to 26 cm, in box 29 cm

Former Owner(s):

Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, Austria)

Gilhofer & Ranschburg. Lucerne, Suisse WIKIDATA

Stift Admont. Bibliothek

Admont Abbey Library WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...agricles. Piscium...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 98 ; 1-28 34 412 5-88 910 108 1110 128−2 (final two leaves cancelled). An unknown number of leaves apparently lacking after fol. 32 and 56, since those texts end imperfectly ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
Layout: 2 columns, 38-48 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light plummet, upper and lower writing lines full-length to edges.
Script: Written in several early gothic bookhands in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two- to four-line red epigraphic capitals throughout, red paragraph markers throughout in differing styles.
Binding: Contemporary (?) deerskin over boards, blind-fillet design on covers, small head- and tail-flaps over endbands; 14th-century manuscript waste pastedowns inner front and back. 14th-century label on spine reads "Astrologi/ca"; 14th-century title handwritten on cover reads, "Albumasar de med[i]tat[i]o[n]ib[us]". Housed in a clamshell box.
Origin: Written in Austria in 1319, possibly at the Benedictine abbey in Admont; the manuscript was at the abbey by 1380, as it is described in the library catalog compiled that year: "Albumasar de meditacionibus cordis. Incipit. In disponendis. In eodem. Liber absconditorum messahale. Et. Liber convinctionis vel receptionis messahale. Et. Liber alchabicii introductorii iudiciorum astronomie...
Provenance: Number 481 in the abbey library through the 19th century, with the abbey label on its spine and a 19th-century purple ownership stamp on fol. 1. Several 14th-century annotations on fol. 1 concerning Golden Numbers. Unidentified manuscript used as binding material on front and rear pastedown.
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL in 1939 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, cat. 265, no. 2.
Call number: MS q Med.80.
Former call number: MS 1488.
Bibliography: L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, Mass.: 1963); P. J. Wichner, "Zwei Bücherverzeichnisse des 14. Jahrh. in der Admonter Stiftsbibliothek," Beihefte zum Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen I (1888): 497-531; E. Zinner, Verzeichnis der astronomischen Handschriften des deutschen Kulturgebietes (Munich, 1925).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Wooden boards

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444913

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bc38b216j/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library