The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 17862a
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9991
- Shelfmark:
- 17862a
- Title:
- Geometrical propositions
- Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560
- Scribe:
- Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560
- Place:
- Wittenberg
- Date:
- 1553
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 12 : paper ; 210 x 302 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Barrett, Oliver R. 1873-1950
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862224
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53014/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
