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

Title

Authors

• Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063

Other related names

• Thebaldis, Aegidius de, active 15th century, translator
• Regio, Petrus de, translator
• Rosenthal, Bernard M, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960927563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/868902802
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6092756

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

approximately 1320

Place

England

Summary

Bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript copied in England of the mid-13th-century Latin translation by Aegidius de Thebaldis (assisted by Petrus de Regio) of the Old Castilian translation of an 11th-century Arabic treatise on astrology. The text on the bifolium is from Book 5 and Book 6 of the work, which are in the section concerning nativities. The bifolium has been bound in reverse so that the leaf with the end of Book 5 and the beginning of Book 6 (and the historiated initial marking the division) are on the first leaf, followed by the originally earlier leaf containing material from Chapter 14 of Book 5. Two marginal section headings (f. 2r) in the same hand as the text; a few brief marginal annotations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on heading for Book 6 (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

8-line historiated initial depicting a monk and a woman with an armillary sphere on a gold ground (slightly rubbed) with a bar border in blue, red, and gold with ivy-leaf finials extending through the full left margin and into the upper and lower margins (f. 1r); 2 3-line decorated initials, one a puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork in red and blue (f. 1r) and the other in red with blue penwork (f. 1v); alternating red and blue paragraph marks.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Bernard M. Rosenthal (note in pencil on letterhead, front flyleaf).
   
• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal as part of his private collection to Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books (London), 1987.
   
• Appears in Quaritch's catalog 1147 (Bookhands of the Middle Ages, Part V, 1991), number 107; sold to a private collector in Switzerland.
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 November 2013, lot 34, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Illumination
• Treatise
• Astronomy
• England
• English
• Arabic
• Astrology

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial, Initial I, Woman and monk holding armillary sphere, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1v