University of Pennsylvania, LJS 463
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS699
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 463
- Title:
- Medical and astrological miscellany.
- Stegmüller, Heinrich
- Place:
- Buchau, Germany
- Date:
- 1443.
- Language:
- German with Latin calendar and colophon
- 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)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Signed in Buchau (near Biberach), northeast of Lake Constance in southern Germany, 1443.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Pressed pigskin with metal clasps.
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).
Layout: Written in 31-34 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink, with ruling in faint ink visible for rubrics in textura.
Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 72 + i (paper); 1-9⁸ 10²; [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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...
Formerly held in the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek (Donaueschingen, Germany; stamps, f. 1r, 74r).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Appears in Jörn Günther's Selection of manuscripts and miniatures (2003), no. 12. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948425633503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h08p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
