University of Pennsylvania, LJS 361
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS629
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 361
- Title:
- Astronomical and astrological tables.
- Place:
- Naples
- Date:
- 1327.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 46 leaves : parchment ; 218 x 150 (158 x 110) mm bound to 218 x 155 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Segre Amar, Sion, 1910-
- Note:
- Layout: Text pages written in 2 columns of 52 lines; table pages in various configurations of rows and columns.
Origin: Written in Naples in 1327 by a Dominican brother at the Dominican convent in Naples while a university student (inscription inside upper cover; rubric, f. 47r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 46; 1⁴(-1, first leaf is pastedown) 2⁸(-2) 3-5¹² 6²(-1, second leaf is pastedown); gatherings 3-6 are signed 11-14, lower center of first recto.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Original 14th-century reversed leather over boards; remains of 1 strap on upper cover and 2 pins for catches on lower cover; leather lacking from spine and lower cover.
Decoration: Tables in red and brown ink; diagrams with red numbers or text; rubrics and paragraph marks in red.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 2000.
Lent to Dominican friar Umilis of Gubbio (14th-century inscription, inside lower cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 Dec. 1998, lot 76, to Sam Fogg Ltd. (London).
Purchased by Sion Segre-Amar in 1975 for his Comites Latentes collection, on deposit at the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva, ms. 174.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Dec. 1975, lot 60, to book dealer C. E. King & Co. (London). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951500353503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ww2s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
