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Title

Ars brevis; Ars abbreviata praedicanda

Authors

• Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142616)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Othmer MS 4
(Philadelphia, Science History Institute, Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History)

Publisher

Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Southern Netherlands
Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains two works by Raymond Llull, one on demonstrating the truth of Catholic faith and the other a treatise on preaching.

Notes

• Fol. 22, mostly torn out, fol. 11, with small tear in outer margin, slight staining throughout, with no loss of text, darker on the opening leaves, inner margin in the first quire, bottom margin, fol. 1, and top and outer margins, fols. 18-23v, fol. 24, darkened and stained in the margin, fols. 24v-31, with light staining; Quire 3 leaf 8 has been canceled; Quire 4 begins on fol. 24
   

Watermark

Hand or glove, with a cuff, above a flower with six petals, similar to Piccard 155973, Neuenbürg, 1494, Piccard 155968, Bartenstein, 1517, Piccard 155971, Johannisburg, 1517, Piccard 155966, Marienburg, 1520, Piccard 155967, Morungen, 1518, and Piccard 155969, Marinburg, 1517, no similar marks found in Briquet (Work 2)

Extent

Ii+35+ii; 198 x 133 mm bound to 203 x 142 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corner recto, 1-35; earlier incomplete modern foliation, lower outer corner recto, 1-24; early foliation in Roman numerals, upper outer corner, i-xii (fols. 24-35)

Collation

1-2 (8), 3 (8, -8), 4 (12)

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern light brown morocco, spine with four slightly raised bands, and "1307," in gilt, turn-ins tooled in gold, marbled endpapers

Layout

Thirty-seven to thirty-nine long lines, frame-ruled in ink and crayon; written area: 150 x 90 mm

Thirty-four to thirty-eight long lines; written area: 162 x 100 mm

Decoration

Diagrams and tables in green, yellow and red; red paragraph marks; three-line red initial (fol. 1r); two-line initials in red or green

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Clipping from Sotheby sale, 12 July 1971, lot 44 laid in; front flyleaf, fol. iv, in blue pencil, "1307," and in pencil, "(36)," and "SE/-/"; front flyleaf, fol. ii, in blue pencil, "31," front flyleaf, fol. iiv, "Rol xii"; back flyleaf, fol. ii, "SC, 19935."
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Netherlands
• Germany
• Christian
• Theology
• Diagrams
• Tables
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ars breuis siue artificum magistri Raymundi Lullii; incipit: Ratio quare facimus istam artem breuem … magister doceat scolares de predictis.
• fol. 24r — Ars abbreviata praedicandi

Decorations

• fol. 1v — A small table, with the letters B-K, with their associated meanings, in chart form
• fol. 2r — Prima figura is a circle with "A" in the center, and with letters representing the nine fundamental principles of the Art inscribed around the circumference; B, goodness, C, greatness, D, eternity or duration, E, power or authority, F, wisdom, or instinct, G, will or appetite, H, virtue, I, truth, K, glory; in text ink and light brown, with green lines connecting points on circle
• fol. 3v — Secunda figura, is a circle, with "T" in the center of three interlocking triangles in red, green and yellow, arranged in a circle; it represents three triads of concepts
• fol. 4r — Third figure, triangle with "compartments" or pairs of all the possible binary combinations without repetitions of the concepts from the first two figures, in text ink, with green
• fol. 4v — A small circular diagram, in brown and green, with the letters b-k, inscribed in the outer ring, and with a small thread extant in the middle (missing are two smaller circles, with the same letters, that would have rotated around their common center, and thus generated "compartments" of three letters)
• fol. 7r — A large table, with combinations of letters