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Title

Ynstruction of the ephimeredes

Authors

• Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Alleyn, James, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 188
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950289983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545131
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5028998 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333434 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3m05g https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs188.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle English

Origin

Date

circa 1540

Place

England

Summary

Copy of the first of the six texts in Opusculum astrologicum, ex diversorum libris, summa cura pro studiosorum utilitate collectum, in a 16th-century English translation. Instructions in 22 chapters for the use of the Ephemerides of Regiomontanus, astronomical tables giving the positions of planets, the sun, and the moon. Includes tables for the latitude of the moon, hourly motion of planets, duration of lunar eclipses, and lunar motion. A table for the risings and settings of fixed stars is "rectyfyed to the yere of our Lorde 1540 complete" (f. 17r). This manuscript was part of Bute MS 13 (formerly f. 101r-120v), followed by another section (formerly f. 124r-141v), now LJS 191, University of Pennsylvania.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
   
• The first part of Bute MS 13 (f. 1r-46v), including a copy of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe, was purchased after 1988 by Shozo Asahata (Nara, Japan); current location unknown (Kurtz and Voigts).
   

Extent

20 leaves : 188 x 142 (146-156 x 107) mm. bound to 196 x 152 mm

Collation

Paper, ii (modern) + ii + 20 + i + ii (modern); 1¹² 2⁵ 3⁴(-1); [1-20], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern calf (after Sotheby's sale in 1983).

Layout

Text pages written in 24-31 long lines; 6 tables are in various arrangements of rows and columns.

Decoration

Tables in brown and red ink; 6-line initial on red and silver ground with red flourishes (f. 1r); 3-line initials in red, or on a ground of red or brown penwork, or on red ground, or simply outlined in ink (some spaces for initials left blank with guide letters visible); initials touched with red throughout, some underlining in red; 2 pages frame-ruled in red ink (f. 1v-2r).

Script

Written in a secretary script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by James Alleyn (signature in another part of parent manuscript).
   
• Parent manuscript formerly held in the library of the Marquesses of Bute, Ms. 13.
   
• Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Bute collection, 13 June 1983, lot 32 (part 6).
   
• Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 180 (1988), no. 134, and cat. 186 (1991), no. 35.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 19.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Ephemerides--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• manuals (instructional materials)
• tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, English--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• English
• England
• Tables
• Paper
• Astronomy
• Instructional materials

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Table, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Table, f. 8r
• fol. 11v — Table, f. 11v
• fol. 17r — Table, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Table, f. 17v
• fol. 19v — Table, f. 19v