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Title

Tractatum de spera ... etc.

Authors

• Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Honeyman, Robert B, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 216
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948124823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/784995508
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs216.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4812482 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3133g http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333029

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1256 and 1270

Place

Paris?, France

Summary

Collection of three scientific works, nearly contemporary with the life of the author: one work on cosmology and astronomy, one on arithmetic, and one on the division of time according to the movements of the sun and moon. The first work originally followed the second and third, and the beginning of the second work is missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• 3. f.29r-58r: [Computus lunaris, or De computo ecclesiastico]
   
• 2. f.20r-28v: [Algorismus, or Tractatus de arte numerandi, beginning missing]
   
• 1. f.1r-19v: [Sphaera mundi]
   

Extent

58 leaves : 165 x 110 (97 x 59) mm bound to 171 x 120 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 58 + i (modern parchment); 1⁸(-1) 2¹² 3⁸(-2) 4⁸(-1) 5⁸(-1) 6⁶ 7⁸ 8⁶(-1); contemporary foliation in ink, [59], 60-77, 3-44, [45], upper right recto, many trimmed; modern foliation in pencil, [1-45, 45-57], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Gatherings 3-7 have framed horizontal catchwords, lower right verso (f. 25v, 32v leading to a missing leaf, 39v, 45v, 52v).

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern velvet.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in lead with double bounding lines (2 double bounding lines in outer margins).

Decoration

3 8-line historiated initials related stylistically to those of the Bari workshop showing the author teaching astronomy to 2 students, all tonsured (f. 1r, 29r, 43v); 7 illustrations including a diagram of the zones of the earth (painted, f. 16v); diagrams of the movements of the sun and moon around the earth and lunar and solar eclipses (colored drawings, f. 18r, 19r, 19v); a circular image of a serpent biting its tail (painted, f. 36r); a table of solar conjunctions (painted, f. 40r); and an image of circles surrounding a flower (painted, f. 55v); first lines next to historiated initials in ornamented display uncials (f. 1r, 29r); 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork infilling and marginal extensions in red and blue; rubrics in red gothic script or black chancery script; paragraph marks in red or blue.

Script

Written in Gothic book script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1089.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ms. Astron. 11/Ms. 56.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 47.
   
• Handled by Maggs Bros.; appeared in a Sam Fogg Ltd. catalog (Autumn/Winter 1995).
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Time measurements--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Medieval
• Cosmology--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• illuminations
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• treatises

Keywords

• 13th century
• Illumination
• Diagrams
• French
• France
• Science
• Mathematics

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sphaera mundi, f. 1r
• fol. 20r — Algorismus, f. 20r
• fol. 29r — Computus lunaris, f. 29r
• fol. 43v — Historiated initial, Initial C, Sacro Bosco teaching astronomy to students, f. 43v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Historiated initial, Initial T, Sacro Bosco teaching astronomy to students, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 1v
• fol. 4v — Decorated capital, Capital M, Dog, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Decorated capital, Capital M, Pig, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Decorated capital, Capital M, Rabbit[?], f. 17r
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 5r
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 10r
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 13r
• fol. 16r — Decorated initial, Initial Y, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Illuminated diagram, Zones of the earth, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Decorated capital, Capital M, Dog, f. 17r
• fol. 17r — Decorated capital, Capital M, Pig, f. 17r
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 18r
• fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Diagram, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 20v
• fol. 21r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 21r
• fol. 21v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 21v
• fol. 23v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 23v
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 25r
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 27r
• fol. 29r — Historiated initial, Initial C, Sacro Bosco teaching astronomy to students, f. 29r
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Decorated capital, Capital M, Dog, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 31v
• fol. 35v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Illustration, Orobouros, f. 36r
• fol. 36r — Decorated capital, Capital M, Pig, f. 36r
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 36r
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 37v
• fol. 38r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 38r
• fol. 38v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 39r
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 40r
• fol. 40r — Table, Solar conjunctions, f. 40r
• fol. 41v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 41v