University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 47

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS716

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 47

Title:

De institutione musica.

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

France, ca. 1490

France TGN

Date:

1490

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 52 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 281 x 204 (206 x 142) mm bound to 291 x 211 mm

Note:

Collation: Paper, 52; 1¹²(missing first 2 leaves) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6⁴; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1490.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Early 18th-century (?) parchment over pasteboard with parchment-cord clasps and pastedowns and endleaves with the watermark S. Bartolomeo Delle Fabbriche; Boeci De Music Ms. written on spine in ink.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39-41 lines; ruled in lead, with little of the ruling now visible.
Script: Written in semi-humanistic script.
Decoration: Diagrams and tables throughout in various combinations of red, blue, and brown ink; 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red or blue; headings, roman numerals in text, and a few marginal notes in red; capitals touched with red.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Soleil, 13977 (Fleurus and Namur, 1487-1491) and 13979 (variants made in France and used in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Rhineland, 1512-1540).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by J & J Lubrano to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1997.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

diagrams

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Music, Greek and Roman

History

500-1400

Early works

Music theory

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948510003503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pw86/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania