Indiana University Bloomington, Medieval and Renaissance 34

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DS ID:

DS580

Shelfmark:

Medieval and Renaissance 34

Title:

Registrum aplphabeticum super octo libros Ptolomei
Registrum Alphabeticum super octo libros Ptolomei Incipit feliciter
De locis et mirabilibus mundi
Incipit Registrum super Tractactum de tribus orbis partibus, ac variis naturis hominum: portentorum, Transformatorum, Necnon de diversis fluminibus aquarum, Insularum et montium,
Tabula Moderna

Author:

Johann Reger

Johann Reger WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

s. XV(ex); 1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in modern dark green morocco; in a brown marbled slipcase.
Script, ff. 129: Cursive Book Hand.
Layout, ff. 129: Collation: i–x#^12#, xi#^8+1# [last added to complete the text]; mostly without ruling (ink ruling from fol. 122v onwards) or with faint bounding lines only, 32–33 lines, written space approximately 200 mm. by 150 mm.; written in brown ink, blank spaces left for initials.
Watermarks, ff. 129: Briquet 2511, similar to. Pair of scales within a circle.

Former Owner(s):

Bernardo Mendel (1895-1967); given to the Lilly Library with the Mendel Collection of travel books, 1964.

Bernardo Mendel WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Ptolemy

Ptolemy WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Other manuscript copies of the text are in El Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, d.III.5, and Ghent, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS 13, the latter made for Raphael de Marcatellis (1437-1508), who preferred manuscripts to printed books anyway (Derolez 1972, p.272).
Bibliography: Byrd 1964, p. 46, no. 77.
ff. 129: Latin.
f. 1r: Note of the circumference of the earth as 252,000 stadia.
f. 2r-76r: On fol. 23v where the text lists the Bavarian village of Kemnath (“Chemmat”), Johann Reger indicates his birthplace, and that in 1486, in his thirty-second year, he “composuit hoc registrum in Ulma”. a concordance of places in the known world, with reference to the Ptolemy maps, usuallyin the form such as “li[ber] 5, ca[pitulum] 16, ta[bula] 4”, or whatever, together with notes...
Explicit, f. 2r-76r: Albion insula, nunc vero anglia dicitur.
f. 76v-79v: A few pages of further notes on places, including the vernacular translations of their Latin names.
Incipit, f. 76v-79v: gallica lingua vocatur Gand; finis est.
ff. 80r-122r: on the three known continents of the world, Europe, Africa and Asia, describing their geographical features, geology, marvels and monsters, exotic animals, wildmen and human hybrids, languages, weather, volcanoes, and other eye-catching information.
Incipit, ff. 80r-122r: finem numque habiturus est.
Explicit, ff. 80r-122r: De tribus partibus orbis.
F. 122v-129r.: Tabula modernaof place names not mentioned by Ptolemy.
Incipit, F. 122v-129r.: Mons seyr, 11.2.

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Indiana University Bloomington