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Title

De natura rerum

Authors

• Thomas, de Cantimpré, ca. 1200-ca. 1270

Other related names

• Gorman, Pierre Patrick, 1924-, former owner

Call number

LJS 23
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947469813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733057445
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4746981

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1275

Place

France or Flanders

Summary

Gatherings from Books VII-XX of Thomas's general introduction to science, including parts of his sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. One of the earliest known copies of this text. Notes in a modern German hand on front flyleaves and occasionally in margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Transcription, in same modern German hand as notes on front flyleaves and bound in same modern paper binding, boxed with manuscript.
   

Extent

56 leaves : 184 x 132 (138 x 105) mm. bound to 185 x 138 mm

Collation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 56 + iii (modern paper) leaves; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁰(-1) 5¹² 6¹⁰(-9); [1-112] ; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. A few catchwords are visible (p. 16, 70); most have been cropped.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern paper.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 31 lines; ruled in faint ink; prickings visible on many leaves.

Decoration

8-line inhabited initial with dragon and marginal extensions (p. 95); 8-line and 9-line inhabited initial with dragons (p. 56, 80); 8-line and 9-line initial in red, brown, pink, green, and blue (p. 39, 60); 3- and 4-line initials alternating between red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and running headings in red; capitals touched with red in most of the manuscript (p. 1-75, 95).

Script

Written in Gothic book and Gothic cursive script, by several hands.

Provenance

• Formerly in a private collection in Iceland; formerly owned by Pierre Patrick Gorman and sold in 1994.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg, cat. 16 (1995), no. 57, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Natural history--Pre-Linnean works

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• History
• Philosophy
• France
• Flanders
• French
• Flemish

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — De piscibus, p.1
• 17 — De vermibus, p. 17
• 25 — De arboribus communibus, p. 25
• 33 — De septem regionibus aeris, p. 33
• 39 — De septem planetis, p. 39
• 53 — De herbis aromaticis, p. 53
• 56 — De fontibus, p. 56
• 59 — De lapidibus preciosis, p. 59
• 71 — De passionibus aeris, p. 71
• 80 — De quatuor elementis, p. 80
• 95 — De ornatu celi et eclipsibus solis et lune, p. 95

Decorations

• 39 — Decorated initial, Initial G, p. 39
• 56 — Inhabited initial, Initial G, Dragon, p. 56
• 60 — Decorated initial, Initial G, p. 60
• 80 — Inhabited initial, Initial G, Dragon, p. 80
• 95 — Inhabited initial, Initial P, Dragon, p. 95