Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI
Ms. Codex 761 Cosmographies
Title
CosmographiesAuthors
- Plato
- Calcidius
- Aristotle
- Argyropoulos, Iōannēs, d. 1486
- Aristotle
- Philo, of Alexandria
- Cleomedes
Other related names
- Tifernas, Lilius, 1417 or 18-1486, translator
- Valgulius, Carolus, d. 1498, translator
Call number
Ms. Codex 761(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9924875023503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212086402
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487502
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
LatinOrigin
Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Date
- ca. 1500
- Place
-
Italy
Summary
Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
- 2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
- 4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.
Extent
341 leaves : 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm. bound to 214 x 146 mmFoliation
Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.Support
PaperBinding
Contemporary tooled calf.Layout
Decoration
Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; diagrams throughout.
Script
Provenance
- Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
Subjects topical
- Cosmography--Early works to 1800
- Astronomy, Greek
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Diagrams
- Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
- Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- 15th century
- 16th century
- Diagrams
- Astronomy
- Italy
- Italian
- Paper
- Cosmology
Licenses
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- URL
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Decorations
- fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
- fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
- fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
- fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
- fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
- fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
- fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
- fol. 36v — Manicule, f. 36v
- fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
- fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
- fol. 52r — Diagram, f. 52r
- fol. 55r — Diagram, f. 55r
- fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
- fol. 61v — Diagram, f. 61v
- fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
- fol. 65v — Diagram, f. 65v
- fol. 68r — Diagram, f. 68r
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- fol. 69v — Diagram, f. 69v
- fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
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- fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
- fol. 81r — Diagram, f. 81r
- fol. 81v — Diagram, f. 81v
- fol. 83v — Diagram, f. 83v
- fol. 93v — Manicule, f. 93v
- fol. 110r — Manicule, f. 110r
- fol. 116v — Manicule, f. 116v
- fol. 132v — Manicule, f. 132v
- fol. 153r — Manicule, f. 153r
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- fol. 165v — Manicule, f. 165v
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- fol. 208v — Manicule, f. 208v
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- fol. 316r — Diagram, f. 316r
- fol. 323r — Diagram, f. 323r
- fol. 333r — Diagram, f. 333r
- fol. 335r — Diagram, f. 335r
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