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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3546

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.80

Title:

Astronomical miscellany; in Latin

Astronomical texts

Place:

Austria?

Austria TGN

Date:

1319.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

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 (see colophon on fol. 54r). 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...
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:

Wooden boards

Gothic scripts

Marginalia

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Austria

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444913

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library