University of Pennsylvania, LJS 397

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS648

Shelfmark:

LJS 397

Title:

Astronomy lecture notes.

Place:

Wittenberg

Wittenberg TGN

Date:

[circa 1550]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 40 leaves : paper ; 199 x 147 mm bound to 205 x 155 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Wittenberg (f. 29v), ca. 1550 (after the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus in 1543).
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 40; 1-5⁸ (f. 1, 9-14, 31, 40 blank).
Script: Written in italic script, either by multiple hands or in varying degrees of formality (f. 2r-8v, 15r-39r).
Decoration: 8 diagrams (f. 8r, 19v, 20v, 22v, 23v, 26r, 29r, 30r) involving circles, radii, and latitude, in black ink, black ink with red letters, or red ink; 4 small mathematical diagrams (f. 32r, 32v, 33v); rubrication in red in second part of manuscript (f. 15r-38v).
Binding: Later marbled paper.
Sold at auction at Reiss & Sohn (Königstein im Taunus), 4 Nov. 1998, lot 4.
Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), cat. 215 (Dec. 2000), no. 254, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

diagrams

lecture notes

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

History

Astronomy

Sixteenth century

Early works

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951607923503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p053/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania