University of Pennsylvania, LJS 300

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS612

Shelfmark:

LJS 300

Title:

Calendarium and ephemerides

Calendar

Ephemerides

Author:

Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476

Regiomontanus WIKIDATA

Place:

Lambach?, Austria

Lambach TGN

Austria TGN

Date:

circa 1500

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper and parchment, color illustrations

Paper AAT

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 377 leaves : paper and parchment, color illustrations ; 162 x 120 (123 x 92) mm bound to 173 x 148 mm

Former Owner(s):

Festetics von Tolna, Gabor, Graf

Gabor Fastetics von Tolna WIKIDATA

Horblit, Harrison D

Harrison Horblit WIKIDATA

Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996

Peter Ludwig WIKIDATA

Ludwig, Irene

Irene Ludwig WIKIDATA

Benediktinerstift Lambach

Lambach Abbey WIKIDATA

J. Paul Getty Museum

J. Paul Getty Museum WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper and parchment, 377 + v; 110 212−1 314 4-514−1 6-814 9-1114−1 1216−2 1314 14-2414−1 2514−2 26-2914−1; 3 parchment bifolia (f. 54-55, 68-69, 240-241); [1-237, 237-376], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 35 lines, in varying numbers of columns; ruled in faint ink, with vertical bounding lines; pricking visible on 3 sides of leaves throughout.
Script: Written in Gothic script.
Decoration: Illustrations of eclipses in brown and yellow, 6 per page (f. 12r-16v), and 1 or 2 illustrations of eclipses on the opening page of most years in the Ephemerides, (for example, 37r, 49r, 63r, and 103r); rubrication in red; tables in black and red throughout.
Watermark: Briquet Balance 2450 and/or Piccard, Group IV (170-206) and Group V (299-300), in use in Austria and southern Germany, 1467-1475.
Binding: Original leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped with cornerpieces, bosses, and 2 clasps; bound at the Benedictine abbey in Lambach (K. Holter, Die Buchbinderwerksatt des Stiftes Lambach); spine restored.
Origin: Written in Upper Austria, probably Lambach, ca. 1500.
Originally owned by the Benedictine abbey of Lambach.
Formerly owned by Duke Gabor Festetics von Tolna (Keszthely, Hungary; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover; stamp, "Bibliotheca in Keszthely," f. 1r).
Appears in V. A. Heck's cat. IV (Vienna, ca. 1922).
Sold by Laurence Witten to Harrison D. Horblit, 1957.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany; bookplates by Hans Erni inside lower cover; ms. XII.9).
Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.), 1983.
Appears in Jörn Günther's catalog 5 (1997), no. 29; also his Recent Acquisitions (with Bruce Ferrini, Autumn 1997), p. 23.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, April 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Almanacs

Manuscripts, Latin

Sixteenth century

codices (bound manuscripts)

Fifteenth century

Finding tabs

Tables (Data)

Ephemerides

devotional calendars

Astronomy

Tables

Monastic libraries

Austria--Lambach (Upper Austria)

Astronomy--Tables

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949184223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p36t0gx4z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania