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LJS 482 Commentaries on De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica
Title
Commentaries on De generatione et corruptione and MeteorologicaAuthors
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Other related names
- Franchini, Giuseppe, former owner
Call number
LJS 482(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 4741544
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4741544
Publisher
The University of Pennsylvania LibrariesLanguage
LatinOrigin
- Date
- between 1275 and 1299
- Place
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Toulouse?, France
Summary
Commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus. The second work is preceded by a table of contents listing chapter headings (f. 25r-26v). Medieval annotations in side margins.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger; titles for component works from explicits (f. 23v, 103r).
- Most leaves have damage at the upper edge and have been repaired with modern parchment.
Extent
104 leaves : 301 x 223 (211 x 140) mm. bound to 330 x 244 mmFoliation
Parchment, 104 ; [1-104] ; modern foliation in pencil, right margin recto.Support
ParchmentBinding
Parchment spine and paper boards.Layout
Decoration
Historiated initial I showing a Dominican friar, probably meant to be Albertus Magnus (f. 27r); 2-line initials in red with blue flourishing throughout first work (f. 1r-23v); 2-line and 3-line initials alternating between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing throughout second work (f. 25r-103r); occasional red or blue paragraph marks in second work (f. 28r-99r); rubrication and chapter numbers in side margins in red throughout; small sketch of face (f. 81r). The running headings with L[ibris] top center verso and a roman numeral for the book number top center recto, all in red, are only occasionally visible at the damaged upper edge of leaves.
Script
Provenance
- Formerly owned by Giuseppe Franchini (ownership stamp, Prof. Giuseppe Franchini, back flyleaf verso).
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 56, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Subjects topical
- Meteorology--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Commentaries
- Annotations
- Illuminations (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
- Manuscripts, Medieval
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
- All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
- URL
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Decorations
- fol. 27r — Historiated initial, Initial I, Albertus Magnus[?], f. 27r
- fol. 81r — Drawing, Face, f. 81r
- fol. 82r — Manicule, f. 82r
- fol. 83v — Manicule, f. 83v
- fol. 86v — Manicule, f. 86v
- fol. 87v — Manicule, f. 87v
- fol. 88r — Manicule, f. 88r
- fol. 88v — Manicule, f. 88v
- fol. 89v — Drawing, Face, f. 89v
- fol. 89v — Manicule, f. 89v
- fol. 90r — Drawing, Face, f. 90r
- fol. 91r — Drawing, Face, f. 91r
- fol. 91v — Drawing, Face, f. 91v
- fol. 92r — Drawing, Face, f. 92r
- fol. 92r — Manicule, f. 92r
- fol. 94v — Manicule, f. 94v
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