University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 64

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS747

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 64

Title:

Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach's Novae theoricae planetarum.

Place:

Padua?, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

[between 1525 and 1575]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 45 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 288 x 214 mm bound to 298 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Rolandi, Francesco

Francesco Rolandi WIKIDATA

Cattochii, Pietro Giuseppe Ignati Mattei

Pietro Giuseppe Ignati Mattei Cattochii WIKIDATA

Honeyman, Robert B

Robert Brodhead Honeyman WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, probably Padua, in the mid-16th century.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 45; 1⁴ (first leaf pastedown) 2⁴(+1) 3-5⁴ 6⁶ 7-10⁴ 11⁴ (last leaf pastedown); modern pagination in pencil, [vii, 2-57, i, 58-65, 67-73, 75-78, vi], upper outer corners. The numbers used as pagination in this record are in fact numbers assigned to diagrams, which are usually one per page, except for the second page of the double-page diagram beginning on p. 57; p. 65, which...
Script: Written in italic script in brown and red ink.
Decoration: 73 full-page diagrams, 1 double-page diagram (p. 57 and facing page), and 4 half-page diagrams in black, red, and brown ink with yellow washes depicting planetary motion. 25 have volvelles or other moving parts attached with thread.
Binding: Contemporary morocco tooled in silver gilt.
Formerly owned by Francesco Rolandi of Turin, teacher of mathematics (inscription dated 1655, inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1112.
Appeared in Laurence Witten's cat. 10 (1979), no. 65.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 26 June 1991, lot 43.
Appeared in Sam Fogg's cat. 15 (London, 1992), no. 48.
Sold by William Patrick Watson Antiquarian Books (London), cat. 7 (1996), no. 79, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Libreria antiquaria Hoepli through Zeitlin & Ver Brugge (Los Angeles) to Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ms. Astron. 4/Ms. 9, 1956.
Formerly owned by Pietro Giuseppe (latinized in inscription as Petrus Joseph) Ignati Mattei Cattochii of Vicus Lancesium (Viù, near Turin; inscriptions dated 1708-1709, inside upper cover and first flyleaf recto).
Appeared in Libreria antiquaria Hoepli's catalog Livres, manuscrits et imprimé (Milan, 1954), no. 24.

Keyword:

volvelles

diagrams

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Planetary theory

Astronomy

Planets--Orbits

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948093793503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dh18/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania