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Title

Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma

Authors

• Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305

Other related names

• Darmarios, Andreas, associated name
• Speyr Passavant, J. H. de, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 97
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949560243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122638166
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4956024

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Greek

Origin

Date

between 1560 and 1580?

Place

Spain or Italy

Summary

Porphyry's commentary on about half of Ptolemy's treatise Harmonics, focusing on harmonics and acoustics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

242 leaves : 291 x 196 (213 x 95) mm. bound to 294 x 210 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 242; 1-11¹⁰ 12⁴ 13-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22-27⁸ 28⁸(-2); [1-242]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 1-12; gatherings 13-28 signed 16-31 in Greek numerals, lower center of first recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards; rebacked with old spine laid down.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines.

Decoration

8 diagrams in brown or brown and red ink (f. 223v-241r); rubrics, decorative initials, and occasional words in red.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. H. de Speyr-Passavant (Basel); perhaps his no. 5 (label on upper cover, inscription inside upper cover); probably sold at auction as part of his collection at R. E. Evans, 27 Apr. 1836.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 3877 (spine label, later inscription in pencil inside upper cover); sold at auction as part of his collection at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 1975, lot 3404.
   
• Formerly in the collection of The Garden Ltd.; sold at auction as part of that collection at Sotheby's (New York), 9 Nov. 1989, lot 65.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1997, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Music theory--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Greek--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Commentary
• Diagrams
• Science
• Paper

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Decorations

• fol. 223v — Diagram, f. 223v
• fol. 225r — Diagram, f. 225r
• fol. 226v — Diagram, f. 226v
• fol. 233v — Diagram, f. 233v
• fol. 235r — Diagram, f. 235r
• fol. 238r — Diagram, f. 238r
• fol. 239v — Diagram, f. 239v
• fol. 241r — Diagram, f. 241r