University of Pennsylvania, LJS 462

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS698

Shelfmark:

LJS 462

Title:

Algorismus ... etc..

Author:

Alexander, de Villa Dei

Alexander of Villedieu WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

[between 1300 and 1350]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment ; 230 x 149 (158 x 93) mm bound to 236 x 159 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, W. 1675-1749

William Jones WIKIDATA

Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, approximately 1697-1764

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Spain in the first half of the 14th century.
Title for manuscript from incipit (f. 1r) and closing rubric (f. 8r) of predominant work.
Decoration: 16 2-line initials, alternating between red with purple flourishing and blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue; rubrication in red; first initial of each line touched in red.
Script: Written in Iberian Gothic script, with notes added at the end in a later English hand, ca. 1500.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card) + 14 + iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card); [1-14], modern foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines. Prickings visible on most leaves.
Binding: 18th-century English parchment spine and marbled paper over boards; spine title in ink, Algorithm & memorial verses MS.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, 22 June 2004, lot 586, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned as part of a larger manuscript and then separated and rebound by W. Jones, English mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society; a note written by Jones in which he attributes the Algorismus to Joannes de Sacro Bosco is laid in the manuscript.
Formerly owned by George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, student of W. Jones, and housed in the library of Shirburn Castle (the seat of the Earls of Macclesfield in Oxfordshire, England).

Keyword:

poems

Didactic poetry, Latin

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Mathematics

Astronomy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958074143503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3t01t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania