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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947331613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759121362
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4733161

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

ca. 1480

Place

Italy?

Summary

Liturgical calendar with some astronomical notes, such as indications of when the sun enters signs of the zodiac, and a circular diagram with 19 divisions around the circumference, corresponding to the 19 Julian years of the Metonic cycle (f. 1r). The calendar is followed by a few tables concerning the golden numbers and the dates of Septuagesima and Easter (f. 7r-7v), a hand-shaped diagram and table concerning the moon and the signs of the zodiac (f. 8r), and a list of combinations of planets (f. 8v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Decoration

2 diagrams in red and black ink (circle, f. 1r; hand with numbers at joints, f. 8r); 4 tables in red and black ink (f. 7r-8r); red ink used for headings and feast days in calendar (f. 1r-6v).

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Easter--Early works to 1800
• Perpetual calendars--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Devotional calendars
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 7r — Tables concerning the golden numbers and the dates of Septuagesima and Easter, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Diagram and table concerning the moon and the signs of the zodiac, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — List of combinations of planets, f. 8v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Diagram, Metonic cycle, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Manicule, f. 1r
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Table, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Table, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, Hand, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Table, f. 8r