Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize LJS 174: Tabule illustrissimi principis regis alfonsii ... etc. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 174: Tabule illustrissimi principis regis alfonsii ... etc. 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 for manuscript taken from rubric for predominant work (f. 1r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 174 9950293063503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122691510 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5029306 A full set of Alphonsine Tables (including tables for mean motions, conjunctions of sun and moon, equation of time, spherical astronomy, longitudes and latitudes of cities, star tables, eclipse tables). The manuscript also includes works about the Alphonsine Tables, such as canons to the Alphonsine Tables by the 14th-century astronomers John of Saxony, Jean de Lignières (also known as Johannes de Lineriis) and Henricus Selder, and an unattributed explanation of corrections made to the tables for use in Prague, accompanied by a few paragraphs on weather prediction by the Baghdad-born Jewish astronomer and astrologer Māshāʼallāh, who died in the 9th century. 2 small pieces of paper containing contemporary fragments of similar text and tables laid in. 4 leaves cut out (2 after f. 12, 2 at end of manuscript); much of 1 leaf torn off (f. 84). Latin Tabule illustrissimi principis regis alfonsii ... etc. John, of Saxony, fl. 1327-1355 Māshāʼallāh, 730?-815? Lignières, Jean de Selder, Henricus former owner Stanitz, John D 1r Tabule illustrissimi principis regis alfonsii pie memorie, f. 1r 25v Canon, f. 25v 27r Alphonsine Tables, f. 27r 69r Canons for the Alphonsine Tables, f. 69r 77r Canon?, f. 77r 81r Canon on primum mobile, f. 81r 104r Computus, f. 104r 105r Presagia pluviarum, f. 105r 105v Canones tabularum Alphonsinarum, f. 105v 121r Devotica duodecim domorum per quam scitur que sunt, f. 121r 133r Canons for the Alphonsine Tables, f. 133r

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 142 leaves : 295 x 225 mm. bound to 295 x 236 mm. + Paper, i + 142 + i; 1¹² 2¹⁶(-2) 3-4¹² 5¹⁸ 6-8¹² 9¹⁰ 10¹⁶ 11¹² 12¹²(-2); 1-4, [5-8], 9-12, [13-142], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Text pages written in both 2 columns of 45-57 lines and 36-52 long lines; tables in various arrangements of columns and rows. Pricking visible on up to 3 sides on many leaves in the first half of the manuscript (f. 1-68). Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands. Tables in red and brown ink; red initials (1 topped with a drawing of a crown in red ink, f. 69r), rubrics, paragraph marks, and initials touched with red in text pages; occasional manicules (f. 26r, 110v, 124r). Table, f. 1r Table, f. 1v Table, f. 2r Table, f. 2v Table, f. 3r Table, f. 3v Table, f. 4r Table, f. 4v Table, f. 5r Table, f. 5v Table, f. 6r Table, f. 6v Table, f. 7r Table, f. 7v Table, f. 8r Table, f. 8v Table, f. 9r Table, f. 9v Table, f. 10r Table, f. 10v Table, f. 11r Table, f. 11v Table, f. 12r Table, f. 12v Table, f. 13r Table, f. 13v Table, f. 14r Table, f. 14v Table, f. 15r Table, f. 15v Table, f. 16r Table, f. 16v Table, f. 17r Table, f. 17v Table, f. 18r Table, f. 18v Table, f. 19r Table, f. 19v Table, f. 20r Table, f. 20v Table, f. 21r Table, f. 21v Table, f. 22r Table, f. 22v Table, f. 23r Table, f. 23v Table, f. 24r Table, f. 24v Table, f. 25r Table, f. 25v Manicule, f. 26r Table, f. 27r Table, f. 27v Table, f. 28r Table, f. 28v Table, f. 29r Table, f. 29v Table, f. 30r Table, f. 30v Table, f. 31r Table, f. 31v Table, f. 32r Table, f. 32v Table, f. 33r Table, f. 33v Table, f. 34r Table, f. 34v Table, f. 35r Table, f. 35v Table, f. 36r Table, f. 36v Table, f. 37r Table, f. 37v Table, f. 38r Table, f. 38v Table, f. 39r Table, f. 39v Table, f. 40r Table, f. 40v Table, f. 41r Table, f. 41v Table, f. 42r Table, f. 42v Table, f. 43r Table, f. 43v Table, f. 44r Table, f. 44v Table, f. 45r Table, f. 45v Table, f. 46r Table, f. 46v Table, f. 47r Table, f. 47v Table, f. 48r Table, f. 48v Table, f. 49r Table, f. 49v Table, f. 50r Table, f. 50v Table, f. 51r Table, f. 52v Table, f. 53r Table, f. 53v Table, f. 54r Table, f. 55r Table, f. 55v Table, f. 56r Table, f. 56v Table, f. 57r Table, f. 57v Table, f. 58r Table, f. 58v Table, f. 59r Table, f. 59v Table, f. 60r Table, f. 60v Table, f. 61r Table, f. 61v Table, f. 62r Table, f. 62v Table, f. 63r Table, f. 64r Table, f. 64v Table, f. 65r Table, f. 65v Table, f. 66r Table, f. 66v Table, f. 67r Table, f. 67v Table, f. 68r Table, f. 68v Decorated initial, Initial T, Crown, f. 69r Table, f. 76v Table, f. 79r Table, f. 79v Table, f. 80r Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 81r Decorated initial, Initial C, Face, f. 104r Table, f. 104v Manicule, f. 110v Table, f. 111v Table, f. 113v Table, f. 114r Table, f. 117v Table, f. 118v Table, f. 119r Table, f. 119v Table, f. 120r Table, f. 120v Diagram, f. 123r Manicule, f. 123v Table, f. 124r Table, f. 124v Table, f. 125r Diagram, f. 131r Diagram, f. 131v

Contemporary limp vellum; lower cover originally wrapped around upper cover with remnants of string ties; leather spine with leather button at head; spine label with title Astronomica manuscripta written in ink; former shelf marks on labels, 32, 251, 355.

Written in Prague from 1401 to 1404 (f. 23r, 76v).

1401-1404 Prague Formerly in the library of the Counts of Ortenburg at Tambach Castle, Ms. E. 355 (spine label). Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 June 1985, lot 72. Appears in an H. P. Kraus catalog, 1987. Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 5. Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise 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 Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script 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 Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Astronomy, Medieval Codices Tables (documents) Manuscripts, Latin--15th century Manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts, Renaissance 15th century Tables Paper Astronomy Czech Republic Czech