University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 449

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DS ID:

DS687

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 449

Title:

Medical and astronomical miscellany.

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[circa 1446]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and German (lower Alemannic with middle German idioms)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 36 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 294 x 210 (205 x 132-142) mm bound to 300 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Labbey-de-Billy, Nicolas-Antoine, 1753-1825

Nicolas Antoine Labbey de Billy WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in southwestern Germany, ca. 1446.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: 36 miniatures in ink with colored washes, 8 to 30 lines in height, including calendar miniatures of the labors of the months (f. 2r-7v), astrological images (f. 12r-21v), and medical illustrations (f. 23v, 26v-28r); 13 circular diagrams (f. 1r-1v, 9r-11v), some with color; 1 7-line initial in red ink with flourishing in green (f. 12r); rubrics and paragraph marks in red, initials...
Script: Written in bâtarde script.
Layout: Written in 36-42 long lines (f. 2r-23v, 26v-28r) or lines in 2 columns (f. 24r-26r, 28v-36v); frame-ruled in faint ink.
Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 36 + i (later paper); [1-36]; 1¹²(-12) 2-3¹² 4²(-2); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, restored.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14964 (1444) and 15054 (1441).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 June 1982, lot 61.
Sold at auction at Ader, Picard, Tajan, 19 May 1976, lot 44.
Appeared in Jörn Günther's cat. 5 (1997), no. 21.
Appeared in the catalog Illumination and the word, issued by Roth Horowitz, Ferrini & Biondi in cooperation with Jörn Günther, Jul. 26-Aug. 23, 2002, no. 6.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Formerly owned by Nicolas-Antoine Labbey-de-Billy (1753-1825, stamp, Ex bibliotheca Billiana, f. 1r); sold as part of that collection in Besançon, 1 May 1826.
Appeared in the catalog Princely magnificence: an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 16th century, issued by Ursus Books Ltd. (New York) in cooperation with Jörn Günther, 1997, no. 12.
Appeared in Sam Fogg's catalog, 30 Apr. 2003; sold to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 2003.

Keyword:

diagrams

almanacs

tables (documents)

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

pen and wash drawings

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

calendars (documents)

Medical astrology

Urine--Analysis

Wine--Therapeutic use

Astrology

Precious stones

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948381663503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ss83/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania