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Title

Phisicae particularis cursus /

Authors

• Caranza, Emmanuel, 1691-1734
• Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide

Call number

Ms. Codex 1803
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967787723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967516302
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35d8nh66

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1730

Place

Rome

Summary

Student lecture notes from the science course taught by Emmanuel Caranza, including astronomy (concluding in favor of the Tychonian model of the solar system, f. 53r-54r), geography (including discussion of the Americas, f. 165v-167r), minerals, plants, animals, medicine, and the soul.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. v recto).
   

Extent

420 leaves : 185 x 130 (160-165 x 95) mm bound to 200 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, 420 leaves; [i-vi], 1-146, [i], 147-332, 332-383, [385-413 (blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) vellum; mottled edges (Cadogan).

Layout

Written in 24-27 long lines. Sporadic use of catchwords.

Decoration

Full illustrated border in color and gilt including an armillary sphere and a globe arranged to display the Mediterranean (f. iv recto); full-page illustrations in ink of an armillary sphere (f. ii recto) and a compass rose (f. 164v); 20 cosmological and astronomical diagrams in the sections of text on the solar system and celestial bodies (f. 34r, 35v, 36v, 37r, 44v, 45r, 45v, 46r, 47v, 49r, 51r, 52v, 67r, 68r, 68v, 75v, 77r, 78r, 79r, 80r).

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy
• Science--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Science
• Cosmology--Early works to 1800
• Cosmology
• Geography
• Geography--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, European
• Drawings (visual works)
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Diagrams

Keywords

• Lecture notes
• 18th century
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Paper
• Italy
• Astronomy
• Geography

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 34r — Cosmological diagram, f. 34r
• fol. 35v — Geometric diagram, f. 35v
• fol. 36v — Geometric diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Cosmological diagram, f. 37r
• fol. 41r — Astrological symbols, f. 41r
• fol. 44v — Cosmological diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Cosmological diagram, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Cosmological diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Cosmological diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 47v — Cosmological diagram, f. 47v
• fol. 49r — Solar system diagram, f. 49r
• fol. 51r — Solar system diagram, f. 51r
• fol. 52v — Solar system diagram, f. 52v
• fol. 67r — Optics diagram, f. 67r
• fol. 68r — Optics diagram, f. 68r
• fol. 68v — Optics diagram, f. 68v
• fol. 75v — Astronomical diagram, f. 75v
• fol. 77r — Astronomical diagram, f. 77r
• fol. 78r — Astronomical diagram, f. 78r
• fol. 79r — Astronomical diagram, f. 79r
• fol. 80r — Astronomical diagram, f. 80r
• fol. 164v — Drawing, Compass rose, f. 164v