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Title

Canones vel operationes in operando quadrante

Authors

• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

LJS 497
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949151873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785431332
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs497.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4915187 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34s7t

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1502

Place

Italy

Summary

Illustrated treatise on the use of the astrolabe quadrant, including locating and predicting the positions of stars; computing the 12 houses of the horoscope; and measuring altitude, latitude, and time.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 25v).
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Aigle 93 (Florence and Naples, 1529).

Extent

28 leaves : 207 x 145 (155 x 100) mm. bound to 207 x 152 mm

Collation

Paper, 28; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3⁸(-2); [1-28], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bifolium from a 12th-century southern Italian manuscript of Augustine's In Iohannis evangelium tractatus (text in 2 columns, in the Bari type of Beneventan script, with majuscule initials highlighted in red or red and green).

Layout

Written in 25-29 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

2 detailed pen-and-wash drawings of the astrolabe quadrant in black and red ink (use of quadrant to locate a star, including position of astronomer's head, f. 4v-5r; back of quadrant, f. 5v); 2 small drawings of towers illustrating measurement of height (f. 21v, 23v); a square diagram in black and red ink and wash illustrating the computation of the 12 houses of the horoscope for 14 Nov. 1501 (f. 16v); 1 large geometric diagram (f. 2v), 7 small geometric diagrams in margins with measurements marked in red (f. 24v-25r); and 5 semicircular diagrams concerned with calculating time (f. 26r-26v). 9 tables in red and black (symbols and names for planets and zodiac signs, f. 4r; ascension of zodiac signs, f. 5r; fixed stars, f. 5r; position of the sun, f. 6r; hours of day and night, f. 9v; hours of night at the 45th latitude, f. 10r; general ascension of zodiac signs, f. 13v; ascension of zodiac signs at the 45th latitude, f. 14r-14v; sunrise and sunset at the 45th latitude, f. 15r-15v). 8-line red initial on a square ground partially infilled with penwork (f. 2r); 2-line red initial on pen-and-wash square ground (f. 13v); 1-line red initials in text for references to diagrams; rubrication and marginal chapter numerals and notes in red. Spaces left open for 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each chapter rubric.

Script

Written in humanistic cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 2010.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• diagrams
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• pen-and-wash drawings
• treatises
• Tables (Data)
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Astronomy
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Drawing

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Front cover
• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Table, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Table, f. 6r
• fol. 9v — Table, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Table, f. 10r
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 13v
• fol. 13v — Table, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Table, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Table, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Table, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside back cover
• Back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Back cover