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Title

Authors

• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636, attributed name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948274463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792950246
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4827446 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bw7q https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs429.html

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1485 and 1499

Place

Mainz?, Germany

Summary

Illustrated introduction to natural philosophy, supposedly according to the principles of Isidore of Seville, but in fact representing later Aristotelian and Thomist thought and opposing the followers of Duns Scotus, including the 15th-century theologians Nicolas d'Orbelles (referred to in the manuscript as Dorbellus) and Etienne Brulefer (in the manuscript as Brulifer). Includes discussion of the proofs of existence of God; the use of the principle of deduction; the celestial spheres and compass points; and the elements, temperaments, and humors.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Layout

Decoration

9 watercolor illustrations and diagrams, 8 full-page (female figure in aristocratic dress, p. 1; male figure in armor, fold-out, p.9; diagram of the head, fold-out, p. [i]; diagram of celestial spheres, fold-out, p. 10; diagram of head with faculties and senses, fold-out, p. 11; diagrams of elements and temperaments, p. 25; diagram including head of Christ with crown of thorns, p. 26; tree of human nature, p. 27) and 1 half-page (diagram of compass points, p. 15); 2 4-line decorated initials (p. 16, 24) and 3 2-line decorated initials (p. 4, 12, 23) in red; rubrics and significant words, underlining, and line-fillers in red; initials touched with red.

Script

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Reiss & Sohn (Königstein), 2002, no. 123, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Brulefer, Etienne,--d. ca. 1499
• Nicolas d'Orbelles
• Natural history--Pre-Linnean works

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Watercolors
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Diagrams
• Philosophy

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• 1 — Illustration, Woman in aristocratic dress holding banner, p. 1
• 4 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 4
• 9 — Illustration, Man in armor, p. 9
• 10 — Diagram, Celestial spheres, p. 10
• 11 — Diagram, Head with faculties and senses, p. 11
• 12 — Decorated initial, Initial T, p. 12
• 15 — Diagram, Compass points, p. 15
• 16 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 16
• 23 — Decorated initial, Initial Q, p. 23
• 24 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 24
• 25 — Diagram, Elements and temperaments, p. 25
• 26 — Diagram, Head of Christ, p. 26
• 27 — Diagram, Tree of human nature, p. 27