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Title

Astronomy lecture notes

Call number

LJS 397
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951607923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122418412
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5160792

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1550

Place

Wittenberg

Summary

Student lecture notes for the second level of instruction in astronomy at the university at Wittenberg during Philipp Melanchthon's tenure on the theology faculty there, including discussion of spherical astronomy, atmospheric refraction, conversion of degrees into miles, and the use of astronomical tables. Some marginal notes with loss due to trimming.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 199 x 147 mm. bound to 205 x 155 mm

Collation

Paper, 40; 1-5⁸ (f. 1, 9-14, 31, 40 blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Later marbled paper.

Decoration

8 diagrams (f. 8r, 19v, 20v, 22v, 23v, 26r, 29r, 30r) involving circles, radii, and latitude, in black ink, black ink with red letters, or red ink; 4 small mathematical diagrams (f. 32r, 32v, 33v); rubrication in red in second part of manuscript (f. 15r-38v).

Script

Written in italic script, either by multiple hands or in varying degrees of formality (f. 2r-8v, 15r-39r).

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Reiss & Sohn (Königstein im Taunus), 4 Nov. 1998, lot 4.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), cat. 215 (Dec. 2000), no. 254, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Germany--History--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Diagrams
• Collection of Sermons
• Astronomy
• History
• Germany
• German

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 33v — Diagram, f. 33v