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Title

Algorismus ;

Authors

• Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
• Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230

Call number

LJS 26
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946463483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759865434
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4646348

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1225 and 1275

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on the fundamentals of arithmetic (Algorismus), followed by a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth divided into climactic zones at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe. The second treatise has marginal notes in the same ink and possibly hand as the text, as well as notes in a later cursive hand in faint ink and a bifolium written in this later hand bound in (f. 23-24).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from caption title of first work and incipit of second work (f. 1r, 9v); second work is also known as Sphaera mundi.
   

Extent

30 leaves : 182 x 128-130 (128 x 85) mm. bound to 188 x 138 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 30; [1-30] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

20th-century morocco with gilt (rebound in 1997).

Layout

Written in 25-26 lines; prickings visible on many leaves.

Decoration

7 astronomical diagrams in black and red ink (f. 10r, 12r, 12v, 25v, 28r, 28v, 29r), 2 astronomical diagrams in black ink (f. 29v, 30r), and 2 illustrations in red and black ink (f. 13r), all in second work; 2-line initial in red and blue with faded penwork extensions (f. 1r); 5-line divided initial in red (f. 9v); caption title (f. 1r) and marginal rubrics in first work (f. 1r-9v) in red, 2-line initials and paragraph marks throughout in red.

Script

Written in Gothic script.

Provenance

• Possible ownership inscription: Brother Pietro di Santo Giovanni (Frater Petrus de Sancto Joanne), Florence (?), 1399 (inscription, f. 9v).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Dec. 1986, lot 35, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Medieval
• Cosmography--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Astronomy
• Treatise
• Cosmology
• Diagrams

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Algorismus, f. 1r
• fol. 9v — Tractatus de sphaera, f. 9v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 1r
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 9v — Owner signature, f. 9v
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 28v — Diagram, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r