Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Rossetti, Donato, 1633-1688?

Other related names

• Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner
• Honeyman, Robert B, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5848812
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5848812

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

ca. 1680

Place

Italy

Summary

Diagrams representing the Ptolemaic (referred to as Aristotelian in the title) and Copernican theories of the universe, with a final diagram representing the theory of Tycho Brahe.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Decoration

46 diagrams in ink or pen and wash; in diagrams including the sun, the sun is drawn more elaborately, with a face; title written in gold, surrounded by a cartouche in pen and wash (f. 3r). The diagrams are numbered, restarting at the beginning of the Copernican section (f. 14r), but the Copernican diagrams are not all in numerical order.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginori Conti, (bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1129.
   
• Handled by Laurence Witten.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 6.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — Sistema Tolemaico, f. 4r
• fol. 14r — Sistema Copernicano, f. 14r
• fol. 21v — Sistema Ticonico, f. 21v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 3r — Illuminated title page, f. 3r