University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 97

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DS ID:

DS748

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 97

Title:

Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma.

Author:

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305

Porphyry WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain or Italy

Spain TGN

Date:

[between 1560 and 1580?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 242 leaves : paper ; 291 x 196 (213 x 95) mm bound to 294 x 210 mm

Former Owner(s):

Speyr Passavant, J. H. de

Johann Heinrich von Speyr-Passavant WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Paper, i + 242; 1-11¹⁰ 12⁴ 13-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22-27⁸ 28⁸(-2); [1-242]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 1-12; gatherings 13-28 signed 16-31 in Greek numerals, lower center of first recto.
Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, probably between 1560 and 1580, under the direction of the 16th-century scribe and dealer Andreas Darmarios (inscription, inside upper cover) but not in his hand.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Binding: Contemporary 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards; rebacked with old spine laid down.
Decoration: 8 diagrams in brown or brown and red ink (f. 223v-241r); rubrics, decorative initials, and occasional words in red.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1997, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly in the collection of The Garden Ltd.; sold at auction as part of that collection at Sotheby's (New York), 9 Nov. 1989, lot 65.
Formerly owned by J. H. de Speyr-Passavant (Basel); perhaps his no. 5 (label on upper cover, inscription inside upper cover); probably sold at auction as part of his collection at R. E. Evans, 27 Apr. 1836.
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 3877 (spine label, later inscription in pencil inside upper cover); sold at auction as part of his collection at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 1975, lot 3404.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Greek

diagrams

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Music theory

Harmonics (Ptolemy)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949560243503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3z892g0z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania