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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9991

Shelfmark:

17862a

Title:

Geometrical propositions

Geometry text

Author:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560

Philipp Melanchthon WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560

Philipp Melanchthon WIKIDATA

Place:

Wittenberg

Wittenberg TGN

Date:

1553

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 12 : paper ; 210 x 302 mm

Former Owner(s):

Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854

Georg Kloss WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Barrett, Oliver R. 1873-1950

Oliver R. Barrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Text on geometrical propositions written by Philip Melancthon at Wittenberg in 1553; place and date in the upper right corner of f. 1 in the same hand as the text. Bound after John Peckham. Perspectiva communis. [Milan: Petrus de Corneno, 1482/1483?
ff. 1-12v. Paper. Layout: 112. Catchwords at the lower right corner of the text on each page. Number of lines varies; unruled. Watermark(s): Similar to Piccard, Ochsenkopf XVI, 123, Ansbach, Nürnberg, etc., 1480-82. Written in one vigorous cursie hand.
Other Decoration: Headings in red rustic capitals or in red cursive. Rough compass diagrams, ff. 6r-v, 8, 11r-v.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/25/2012.
Bookplate on inside of front cover: Georgius Kloss M.D. Francofurt ad Moenum; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4635 to Thorpe. Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1836; his n. 9028 on the first leaf of the printed book and on the small paper label on the spine; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 868. Belonged to the collector of Lincolniana, Oliver R. Barrett; sale of a "notable...

Keyword:

diagrams

Germany

Sixteenth century

manuscripts (documents)

Geometry

Early works

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862224

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens