University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1264

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS998

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1264

Title:

Seals of the planets.

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1575 and 1599?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German, with Latin and Hebrew

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 9 leaves : paper ; 200 x 162 mm bound to 204 x 170 mm

Note:

Origin: Written in Germany, in the late 16th century (Les Enluminures).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Modern boards.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 9; [1-9]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a German cursive script.
Decoration: Small ink drawings of divinities associated with planets: Luna (f. 2r), Mars (f. 3r), Mercury (f. 4r), Jove (f. 5r), the Sun (f. 6v), Saturn (f. 9r), and Venus (f. 9r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.

Keyword:

treatises

Manuscripts, German

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

Astrology

Talismans

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Magic

Magic squares

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944013933503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3w55p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania