The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 65

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9867

Shelfmark:

mssHM 65

Title:

Almagest

Author:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Ptolemy WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1279

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 271 : parchment ; 226 x 319 mm

Former Owner(s):

Pierleone, da Spoleto, -1492

Pierleone Leoni WIKIDATA

Gunsaulus, Frank W. 1856-1921

Frank W. Gunsaulus WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Littera textualis.
Layout: 1-1712 1814(through f. 218) 1912 2012(-11 after f. 240, with no loss of text) 21-2212 238(-7, 8). Quires signed in arabic numerals on last verso bottom center and occasionally on the first recto. 34 long lines, ruled in fine lead with wide lower margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-271v.
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, f. 1, 6-line, depicts the prince Abu 'l-Wafâ' holding an armillary sphere and discoursing with a scholar.
Other Decoration: 5- or 4-line initials, after f. 2 set outside the written space, in white-patterned pink or blue on ground of the other color, infilled with colored trilobe leaves or biting animal heads, with cusped bar border inhabited by drolleries (rabbit and hound; lion; bird). Numerous geometrical projections in the margins in red, green, black, and yellow ink.
Copied in Southern France in 1279 according to the date on f. 184 (part of the explicit of Book 11).
Assigned Date: s. XIII4/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/10/2012.
Erased inscriptions at the top of ff. ii, 1. Belonged to Pier Leoni (d. 1492), physician to Lorenzo de' Medici; n. 111 in the inventory of his books compiled in 1582 and published by L. Dorez, "Recherches sur la bibliothèque de Pier Leoni, médecin de Laurent de Médicis," Revue des Bibliothèques 7 (1897) 81-106. Identified by J. Ruysschaert, "Nouvelles recherches au sujet de la bibliothèque de...

Keyword:

historiated initials

marginalia (annotations)

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Astronomy

Mathematics, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862098

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52698/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens