University of Pennsylvania, LJS 429

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS670

Shelfmark:

LJS 429

Title:

De philosophia naturali.

Place:

Mainz?, Germany

Mainz TGN

Date:

[between 1485 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 138 (135-150 x 90-99) mm

Note:

Origin: Written in western Germany, probably Mainz, in the late 15th century.
Decoration: 9 watercolor illustrations and diagrams, 8 full-page (female figure in aristocratic dress, p. 1; male figure in armor, fold-out, p.9; diagram of the head, fold-out, p. [i]; diagram of celestial spheres, fold-out, p. 10; diagram of head with faculties and senses, fold-out, p. 11; diagrams of elements and temperaments, p. 25; diagram including head of Christ with crown of thorns, p...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 14; 1¹⁴; modern pagination in pencil, [1-9, i, 10-27], upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 24-29 long lines; vertical bounding lines and very occasional horizontal bounding lines ruled in brown or red ink.
Script: Written in semi-cursive script with some calligraphic broken-letter headings.
Ms. gathering.
Sold at auction at Reiss & Sohn (Königstein), 2002, no. 123, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

watercolors (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Natural history

Nicolas d'Orbelles

Brulefer, Etienne, -approximately 1499

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948274463503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bw7q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania