Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 172: Tabulae directionum et profectionum University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 172: Tabulae directionum et profectionum are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger from first printed edition. 4. p.168-185: [Tabella sinus recti] 1. p.1-2: [Dedicatory letter to János Vitéz, Archbishop (1465-1472) of Esztergom, Hungary] 3. p.35-150: [Tabulae directionum et profectionum] 2. p.2-33: [Introduction] 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 172 9958778333503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823519147 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs172.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1502731 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5877833 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s17st1w Astronomical tables of declinations and ascensions and a table of sines, copied not long after their completion by Regiomontanus in 1467. Latin Tabulae directionum et profectionum Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476 Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) scribe Kuppferberg, Johannes de dedicatee Vitéz, János, ca. 1408-1472 former owner Horblit, Harrison D former owner Stanitz, John D 1 Dedicatory letter to Ja?nos Vite?z, p. 1 2 Introduction, p. 2 35 Tabulae directionum et profectionum, p. 35 168 Tabella sinus recti, p. 168

parchment and paper

Similar to Briquet Balance 2454 (Wiener Neustadt, 1476). 95 leaves : 214 x 142 mm bound to 220 x 152 (170 x 98) mm

Paper with 2 parchment bifolia, 95; 1¹²(-1) 2-8¹²; inner and outer bifolia of first gathering parchment, with first leaf now missing; [1-190 (151-167 blank)], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners 1-55, upper right recto 57-185; modern signatures in pencil, 1-8, lower left first recto.

 Written in 48 long lines, with vertical bounding lines in ink (text); most tables in landscape orientation, with 18 columns, with double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines. Written in Gothic cursive script by Johannes de Kuppferberg (p. 33). Tables in black and red ink (p. 35-150, 168-185); rubrication, underlining, and paragraph numbers in text in red ink, with spaces left for initials 3 to 6 lines in height (p. 1-33). Seller's description, Inside front cover

Modern mottled calf with paste paper endpapers, marbled edges, and 19th-century gilt spine laid down.

Written in Austria or Hungary, circa 1476 (based on watermark).

circa 1476 Austria or Hungary Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997. Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 3. Sold by a French dealer before 1957 (catalog description, inside upper cover). Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012. Sold by Laurence Witten to Harrison D. Horblit, 1957. Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 16. Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Astronomy--Tables codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts, Renaissance Manuscripts, Latin--15th century tables (documents) 15th century Tables Astronomy Paper Austria Hungary Austrian