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Title

Calendarium and ephemerides

Authors

• Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Festetics von Tolna, Gabor, Graf, former owner
• Ludwig, Irene, former owner
• Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996, former owner
• Horblit, Harrison D, former owner
• Benediktinerstift Lambach, former owner
• J. Paul Getty Museum, former owner

Call number

LJS 300
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949184223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792741409
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs300.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338711 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36t0gx4z http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4918422 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1500

Place

Lambach?, Austria

Summary

Manuscript copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. Also includes a table of time corrections (f. 11v) for cities in reference to a longitude of approximately 10 degrees east (thus making no correction for Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Ulm, or Milan). The Ephemerides, consisting only of tables updated to begin in 1480 and ending in 1506, provides positions for the sun, moon, and planets for each day of each year. The beginning of each year is marked with a finding tab of leather or parchment dyed pink. A liturgical calendar at the beginning of the manuscript (lacking November) includes additions to the printed version which customize the calendar for a Benedictine monastery (Saint Maurus, 15 Jan.; commemoration of Adalbero, 6 Oct.) in southern Germany or Austria (Valentinus, bishop of Passau, 7 Jan.; Rupert, bishop of Salzburg, 27 Mar.; Ulrich of Augsburg, 4 July; Koloman, patron saint of Austria, 13 Oct.), and more specifically the Benedictine abbey in Lambach, Austria (feast and translation of Kilian, patron saint of the abbey, 7 and 14 Jul.).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 3. f.22r-377r: Almanach [Ephemerides]
   
• 2. f.12r-20r: [Calendarium]
   
• 1. f.1r-11v: [Liturgical calendar]
   

Watermark

Briquet Balance 2450 and/or Piccard, Group IV (170-206) and Group V (299-300), in use in Austria and southern Germany, 1467-1475.

Extent

377 leaves : 162 x 120 (123 x 92) mm. bound to 173 x 148 mm

Collation

Paper and parchment, 377 + v; 1¹⁰ 2¹²⁻¹ 3¹⁴ 4-5¹⁴⁻¹ 6-8¹⁴ 9-11¹⁴⁻¹ 12¹⁶⁻² 13¹⁴ 14-24¹⁴⁻¹ 25¹⁴⁻² 26-29¹⁴⁻¹; 3 parchment bifolia (f. 54-55, 68-69, 240-241); [1-237, 237-376], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper and parchment

Binding

Original leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped with cornerpieces, bosses, and 2 clasps; bound at the Benedictine abbey in Lambach (K. Holter, Die Buchbinderwerksatt des Stiftes Lambach); spine restored.

Layout

Written in 35 lines, in varying numbers of columns; ruled in faint ink, with vertical bounding lines; pricking visible on 3 sides of leaves throughout.

Decoration

Illustrations of eclipses in brown and yellow, 6 per page (f. 12r-16v), and 1 or 2 illustrations of eclipses on the opening page of most years in the Ephemerides, (for example, 37r, 49r, 63r, and 103r); rubrication in red; tables in black and red throughout.

Script

Written in Gothic script.

Provenance

• Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.), 1983.
   
• Formerly owned by Duke Gabor Festetics von Tolna (Keszthely, Hungary; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover; stamp, "Bibliotheca in Keszthely," f. 1r).
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany; bookplates by Hans Erni inside lower cover; ms. XII.9).
   
• Appears in V. A. Heck's cat. IV (Vienna, ca. 1922).
   
• Appears in Jörn Günther's catalog 5 (1997), no. 29; also his Recent Acquisitions (with Bruce Ferrini, Autumn 1997), p. 23.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, April 1999.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Originally owned by the Benedictine abbey of Lambach.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten to Harrison D. Horblit, 1957.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Tables
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Ephemerides--Early works to 1800
• Monastic libraries--Austria--Lambach (Upper Austria)

Genres

• devotional calendars
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Almanacs
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Tables (Data)
• Finding tabs
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Ephemerides

Keywords

• Almanac
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Austrian
• Austria
• Paper
• Astronomy
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liturgical calendar, f. 1r
• fol. 12r — Calendarium, f. 12r
• fol. 22r — Almanach [Ephemerides], f. 22r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r
• fol. 11v — Table, Time corrections, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Illustration, Eclipses, f. 16v
• fol. 22r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 22r
• fol. 22r — Finding tab, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Finding tab, f. 22v
• fol. 37r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 37r
• fol. 37r — Finding tab, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Finding tab, f. 37v
• fol. 49r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 49r
• fol. 49r — Finding tab, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Finding tab, f. 49v
• fol. 63r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 63r
• fol. 63r — Finding tab, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Finding tab, f. 63v
• fol. 77r — Finding tab, f. 77r
• fol. 77v — Finding tab, f. 77v
• fol. 91r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 91r
• fol. 91r — Finding tab, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Finding tab, f. 91v
• fol. 104r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 104r
• fol. 104r — Finding tab, f. 104r
• fol. 104v — Finding tab, f. 104v
• fol. 117r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 117r
• fol. 130r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 130r
• fol. 130r — Finding tab, f. 130r
• fol. 130v — Finding tab, f. 130v
• fol. 143r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 143r
• fol. 143r — Finding tab, f. 143r
• fol. 143v — Finding tab, f. 143v
• fol. 157r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 157r
• fol. 157r — Finding tab, f. 157r
• fol. 157v — Finding tab, f. 157v
• fol. 171r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 171r
• fol. 171r — Finding tab, f. 171r
• fol. 171v — Finding tab, f. 171v
• fol. 197r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 197r
• fol. 197r — Finding tab, f. 197r
• fol. 197v — Finding tab, f. 197v
• fol. 204v — Decorated descender, Face, f. 204v
• fol. 210r — Illustration, Eclipse, f. 210r
• fol. 210r — Finding tab, f. 210r
• fol. 210v — Finding tab, f. 210v
• fol. 223r — Finding tab, f. 223r
• fol. 223v — Finding tab, f. 223v
• fol. 236r — Finding tab, f. 236r
• fol. 236v — Finding tab, f. 236v
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Inside back cover