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Title

Tractatus de horologiis solaribus anno 1690

Authors

• Baldigiani, Antonio, 1647-1711
• Aquino, Carlo d', 1654-1737

Other related names

• Trasius, Tarquinius, transcriber

Call number

Ms. Codex 1015
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3820530
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3820530

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with some examples in Italian in the second treatise

Origin

Date

1690, 1697

Place

Rome

Summary

Two treatises based on academic lectures. The first, on sundials, includes discussions of history, equinoxes, and meridians, and concludes with several diagrams; the second, on rhetoric, includes examples from Horace, Lucan, Martial, and Petronius, as well as examples in Italian from Petrarch.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Titles based on individual title pages for the treatises (f. 4r, 52r).
   

Extent

75 leaves : 190 x 128 (160 x 104) mm. bound to 195 x 135 mm

Foliation

Paper, 75; [1-75]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords lower right corner in second work.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary limp parchment, tears across spine, minor staining (Gaskell).

Decoration

24 geometric/astronomical diagrams at the end of the first treatise.

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Horology--Early works to 1800
• Sundials--Early works to 1800
• Latin language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Italian language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Rhetoric--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Lecture notes
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — Tractatus de horologiis solaribus, f. 4r
• fol. 52r — Tractatus de stylo arguto, f. 52r

Decorations

• fol. 39r — Diagram, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Diagram, f. 40r
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 42v — Diagram, f. 42v
• fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 44r — Diagram, f. 44r
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Diagram, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Diagram, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Diagram, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Diagram, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Diagram, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Diagram, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Diagram, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Diagram, f. 50v