University of Pennsylvania, LJS 300

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS612

Shelfmark:

LJS 300

Title:

Calendarium and ephemerides.

Author:

Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476

Regiomontanus WIKIDATA

Place:

Lambach?, Austria

Lambach TGN

Date:

[circa 1500]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

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:

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.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
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.
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.
Script: Written in Gothic script.
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.
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.
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).
Appears in V. A. Heck's cat. IV (Vienna, ca. 1922).
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.
Originally owned by the Benedictine abbey of Lambach.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Formerly owned by Duke Gabor Festetics von Tolna (Keszthely, Hungary; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover; stamp, "Bibliotheca in Keszthely," f. 1r).
Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.), 1983.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

devotional calendars

Finding tabs

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Almanacs

Tables (Data)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Ephemerides

Manuscripts, Latin--16th century

Astronomy

Austria--Lambach (Upper Austria)

Monastic libraries

Astronomy--Tables

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949184223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36t0gx4z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania