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Title

Tabulae directionum et profectionum

Authors

• Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Kuppferberg, Johannes de, scribe
• Vitéz, János, ca. 1408-1472, dedicatee
• Horblit, Harrison D, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 172
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958778333503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823519147
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs172.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1502731 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5877833 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s17st1w

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1476

Place

Austria or Hungary

Summary

Astronomical tables of declinations and ascensions and a table of sines, copied not long after their completion by Regiomontanus in 1467.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger from first printed edition.
   
• 4. p.168-185: [Tabella sinus recti]
   
• 1. p.1-2: [Dedicatory letter to János Vitéz, Archbishop (1465-1472) of Esztergom, Hungary]
   
• 3. p.35-150: [Tabulae directionum et profectionum]
   
• 2. p.2-33: [Introduction]
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Balance 2454 (Wiener Neustadt, 1476).

Extent

95 leaves : 214 x 142 mm bound to 220 x 152 (170 x 98) mm

Collation

Paper with 2 parchment bifolia, 95; 1¹²(-1) 2-8¹²; inner and outer bifolia of first gathering parchment, with first leaf now missing; [1-190 (151-167 blank)], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners 1-55, upper right recto 57-185; modern signatures in pencil, 1-8, lower left first recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

Modern mottled calf with paste paper endpapers, marbled edges, and 19th-century gilt spine laid down.

Layout

Written in 48 long lines, with vertical bounding lines in ink (text); most tables in landscape orientation, with 18 columns, with double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines.

Decoration

Tables in black and red ink (p. 35-150, 168-185); rubrication, underlining, and paragraph numbers in text in red ink, with spaces left for initials 3 to 6 lines in height (p. 1-33).

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script by Johannes de Kuppferberg (p. 33).

Provenance

• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 3.
   
• Sold by a French dealer before 1957 (catalog description, inside upper cover).
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten to Harrison D. Horblit, 1957.
   
• Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 16.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Tables

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• tables (documents)

Keywords

• 15th century
• Tables
• Astronomy
• Paper
• Austria
• Hungary
• Austrian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Dedicatory letter to Ja?nos Vite?z, p. 1
• 2 — Introduction, p. 2
• 35 — Tabulae directionum et profectionum, p. 35
• 168 — Tabella sinus recti, p. 168

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover