University of Pennsylvania, LJS 384

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS637

Shelfmark:

LJS 384

Title:

De philosophia mundi] ... [etc.

Philosophia mundi

Author:

William, of Conches, 1080-approximately 1150

William of Conches WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

circa 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 21 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 206 x 146 (165 x 120) mm bound to 208 x 152 mm

Former Owner(s):

Singer, Charles, 1876-1960

Charles Singer WIKIDATA

Foyle, William A. 1885-1963

William Foyle WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger based on predominant work.
Foliation: Parchment, 21 ; [1-21] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34-38 lines; ruled in drypoint; prickings visible at outer edges.
Script: Written in German transitional script (or protogothic script) with archaic forms by 3 hands (f. 1r-19v column B line 25, 19v column B line 26-20r, 20v-21r; Erik Kwakkel, Leiden University).
Decoration: 16 maps and diagrams (f. 8v-9r, 10v-11r, 13r-13v, 15r); 6 2- or 3-line initials in red (f. 1r, 2v, 6r, 11v, 14v).
Binding: Modern parchment.
Origin: Written in Germany, circa 1150 (Kwakkel).
Sold by Hirsch to E. P. Goldschmidt, 1928 (Goldschmidt stock books, Grolier Club); appears in Goldschmidt cat. 18 (no. 47), cat. 21 (no. 10), cat. 23 (no. 97), cat. 25 (no. 84), 1929-1930.
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt to Charles Joseph Singer, 1932.
Formerly owned by William A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey, Essex; leather bookplate inside upper cover).
Sold at auction as part of Foyle's collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of David McKnight, Director, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Penn Libraries, 2013.

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

maps (documents)

Manuscripts, Medieval

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin

Twelfth century

Geography

Early works

Meteorology

Medicine

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9946262693503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania