University of Pennsylvania, LJS 463

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DS ID:

DS699

Shelfmark:

LJS 463

Title:

Medical and astrological miscellany

Medical texts

Astrological texts

Author:

Stegmüller, Heinrich

Heinrich Stegmüller WIKIDATA

Place:

Buchau, Germany

Buchau TGN

Germany TGN

Date:

1443.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German with Latin calendar and colophon

German WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 72 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 230 x 163 (160 x 110) mm bound to 240 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek (Donaueschingen, Germany)

Donaueschingen court library WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 72 + i (paper); 1-98 102; [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 31-34 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink, with ruling in faint ink visible for rubrics in textura.
Script: Written in Gothic textura (calendar and rubrics) and cursive script in the hand of Heinrich Stegmüller, followed by later notes in 2 different hands (f. 73r-74r).
Decoration: 53 pen-and-wash illustrations, mostly in medallions, including the signs of the zodiac and labors of the months (f. 1r-18v); another set of the signs of the zodiac (f. 19r-28v); male and female figures representing the planets, sun, and moon (Saturn, f. 30r; Jupiter, f. 32r; Mars, f. 33r; the Sun, f. 34v; Venus, f. 35v; Mercury, f. 36v; the Moon, f. 37v); a scene of two men reading...
Binding: Pressed pigskin with metal clasps.
Origin: Signed in Buchau (near Biberach), northeast of Lake Constance in southern Germany, 1443.
Formerly held in the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek (Donaueschingen, Germany; stamps, f. 1r, 74r).
Appears in Jörn Günther's Selection of manuscripts and miniatures (2003), no. 12.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

calendars (documents)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

treatises

Manuscripts, German

pen and wash drawings

Zodiac in art

Traditional medicine

Early works

Four temperaments in art

Astrology

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948425633503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3h08p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania