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

Title

De philosophia mundi ... etc.

Authors

• William, of Conches, 1080-approximately 1150
• Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141

Other related names

• Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960, former owner
• Foyle, William A. 1885-1963, former owner

Call number

LJS 384
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946262693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802433121
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4626269

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1150

Place

Germany

Summary

Treatise in 4 books on astronomy, geography, meteorology, and medicine, followed by a work on Gospels attributed to Hugh of Saint-Victor.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on predominant work.
   

Extent

21 leaves : 206 x 146 (165 x 120) mm. bound to 208 x 152 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 21 ; [1-21] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern parchment.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 34-38 lines; ruled in drypoint; prickings visible at outer edges.

Decoration

16 maps and diagrams (f. 8v-9r, 10v-11r, 13r-13v, 15r); 6 2- or 3-line initials in red (f. 1r, 2v, 6r, 11v, 14v).

Script

Written in German protogothic book script with archaic forms by 3 hands (f. 1r-19v column B line 25, 19v column B line 26-20r, 20v-21r; Erik Kwakkel, Leiden University).

Provenance

• Sold by Hirsch to E. P. Goldschmidt, 1928 (Goldschmidt stock books, Grolier Club); appears in Goldschmidt cat. 18 (no. 47), cat. 21 (no. 10), cat. 23 (no. 97), cat. 25 (no. 84), 1929-1930.
   
• Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt to Charles Joseph Singer, 1932.
   
• Formerly owned by William A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey, Essex; leather bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction as part of Foyle's collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of David McKnight, Director, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Penn Libraries, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Geography--Early works to 1800
• Meteorology--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Maps
• Manuscripts, Latin--12th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 12th century
• German
• Diagrams
• Germany
• Astronomy
• Geography
• Science -- Medicine
• Maps
• Meteorology

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Diagram, f. 9r
• fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Cross out, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Cross out, f. 16r