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Title

Liber de astronomia

Authors

• Jābir ibn Aflah, Abū Muhammad, 12th cent

Other related names

• Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 1828-1897, former owner
• Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 14-1187, translator
• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 826
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931800413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155861976
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3180041

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1300

Place

France?

Summary

7 of the usual 9 books of this astronomical work (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue) translated by Gherardo da Cremona.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (front flyleaf recto).
   
• Incipit: Scientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam fidei.
   
• Explicit: ... i[n] duo media s[ed] q[uod] e[st] i[n] figura prima.
   
• Contemporary and near-contemporary marginal notes in several hands throughout.
   
• Illegible note with the date 1440 (f. 63v).
   

Extent

64 leaves : 261 x 198 (193 x 128) mm. bound to 270 x 203 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii + 64 + i; [1-64]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

Decorated initial in red and blue (f. 1r); decorative ascenders and descenders added by a later hand beginning at the end of Book 5 (f. 31v), some with red ink (f. 33v-34r); trigonometric and spherical trigonometric diagrams throughout, most commonly in the margins; occasionally the text is shaped to accommodate a larger diagram (for example, f. 23v).

Script

Written in a Gothic script by several hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Don A. Canovas del Castillo (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1920 (Thomas R. Adams).
   
• Purchased, 1949.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Trigonometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Diagrams
• Astronomy
• Science
• Mathematics
• Arabic
• France

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Book 1, f. 1r
• fol. 7r — Book 2, f. 7r
• fol. 15r — Book 3, f. 15r
• fol. 18r — Book 4, f. 18r
• fol. 25r — Book 5, f. 25r
• fol. 35v — Book 6, f. 35v
• fol. 54v — Book 7, f. 54v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Penwork initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 31v — Decorated descenders, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 32v
• fol. 33r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 33r
• fol. 33v — Rubricated ascenders and descenders, f. 33v
• fol. 34r — Rubricated ascenders and descenders, f. 34r
• fol. 34v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 34v
• fol. 35r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 36r
• fol. 36v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 37v
• fol. 38r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 38r
• fol. 38v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 40r
• fol. 40v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 40v
• fol. 41r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 41v
• fol. 42v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 42v
• fol. 43r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 43v
• fol. 44r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 44r
• fol. 44v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Decorated ascenders, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Decorated ascenders, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Decorated ascenders, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Decorated descenders, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 52r
• fol. 52v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Decorated ascenders, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Decorated ascenders and descenders, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Decorated ascenders, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Decorated ascenders, f. 55v
• fol. 56r — Decorated ascenders, f. 56r