University of Pennsylvania, LJS 497

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS731

Shelfmark:

LJS 497

Title:

Canones vel operationes in operando quadrante.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[circa 1502]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 207 x 145 (155 x 100) mm bound to 207 x 152 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 25-29 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Origin: Written in southern Italy, ca. 1502. The geographical location is supported by textual references to the island of Diomedes (now Isole Tremiti), in Puglia, the binding from an earlier southern Italian manuscript, and the watermark similar to one used in Naples later, but some tables in the text give astronomical information for the 45th latitude, which passes through northern Italy...
Title from explicit (f. 25v).
Collation: Paper, 28; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3⁸(-2); [1-28], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Bifolium from a 12th-century southern Italian manuscript of Augustine's In Iohannis evangelium tractatus (text in 2 columns, in the Bari type of Beneventan script, with majuscule initials highlighted in red or red and green).
Decoration: 2 detailed pen-and-wash drawings of the astrolabe quadrant in black and red ink (use of quadrant to locate a star, including position of astronomer's head, f. 4v-5r; back of quadrant, f. 5v); 2 small drawings of towers illustrating measurement of height (f. 21v, 23v); a square diagram in black and red ink and wash illustrating the computation of the 12 houses of the horoscope for...
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 93 (Florence and Naples, 1529).
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 2010.

Keyword:

Tables (Data)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

pen and wash drawings

Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)

Astronomy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949151873503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34s7t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania