University of Pennsylvania, LJS 397
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS648
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 397
- Title:
- Astronomy lecture notes
- Place:
- Wittenberg
- Date:
- circa 1550
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 40 leaves : paper ; 199 x 147 mm bound to 205 x 155 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Origin: Written in Wittenberg (f. 29v), ca. 1550 (after the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus in 1543).
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.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9951607923503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3p053/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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