University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 501
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS736
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 501
- Title:
- Bifolium from Liber completus in iudiciis stellarum.
- Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- [approximately 1320]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2 leaves : parchment, colored illustration ; 314 x 234 (246 x 170) mm bound to 346 x 260 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Rosenthal, Bernard M
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in England in approximately 1320 (Quaritch).
Decoration: 8-line historiated initial depicting a monk and a woman with an armillary sphere on a gold ground (slightly rubbed) with a bar border in blue, red, and gold with ivy-leaf finials extending through the full left margin and into the upper and lower margins (f. 1r); 2 3-line decorated initials, one a puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork in red and blue (f. 1r) and the other in...
Title supplied by cataloger based on heading for Book 6 (f. 1r).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53 lines; prickings visible.
Script: Written in Gothic textualis script.
Binding: Modern paper over cardboard, with gilt cover label (Ibn Abi 'l-Rijal, Liber in iudiciis stellarum, England, circa 1320, MS 1317 ES).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 November 2013, lot 34, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Bernard M. Rosenthal (note in pencil on letterhead, front flyleaf).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal as part of his private collection to Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books (London), 1987.
Appears in Quaritch's catalog 1147 (Bookhands of the Middle Ages, Part V, 1991), number 107; sold to a private collector in Switzerland.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2014. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9960927563503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p880/manifest
- Holding Institution:
