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Metadata

DS ID:

DS748

Shelfmark:

LJS 97

Title:

Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma

Commentarius in Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonica

Author:

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305

Porphyry WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain or Italy

Spain TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1560 and 1580?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

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

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
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. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: 8 diagrams in brown or brown and red ink (f. 223v-241r); rubrics, decorative initials, and occasional words in red.
Binding: Contemporary 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards; rebacked with old spine laid down.
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.
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.
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.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1997, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Greek

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Early works

Music theory

Harmonics (Ptolemy)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949560243503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania