Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 23: De natura rerum University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 23: De natura rerum 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. Transcription, in same modern German hand as notes on front flyleaves and bound in same modern paper binding, boxed with manuscript. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 23 9947469813503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733057445 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4746981 Gatherings from Books VII-XX of Thomas's general introduction to science, including parts of his sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. One of the earliest known copies of this text. Notes in a modern German hand on front flyleaves and occasionally in margins. Latin De natura rerum Thomas, de Cantimpré, ca. 1200-ca. 1270 former owner Gorman, Pierre Patrick, 1924- 1 De piscibus, p.1 17 De vermibus, p. 17 25 De arboribus communibus, p. 25 33 De septem regionibus aeris, p. 33 39 De septem planetis, p. 39 53 De herbis aromaticis, p. 53 56 De fontibus, p. 56 59 De lapidibus preciosis, p. 59 71 De passionibus aeris, p. 71 80 De quatuor elementis, p. 80 95 De ornatu celi et eclipsibus solis et lune, p. 95

parchment

 56 leaves : 184 x 132 (138 x 105) mm. bound to 185 x 138 mm

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 56 + iii (modern paper) leaves; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁰(-1) 5¹² 6¹⁰(-9); [1-112] ; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. A few catchwords are visible (p. 16, 70); most have been cropped.

 Written in 2 columns of 31 lines; ruled in faint ink; prickings visible on many leaves. Written in Gothic book and Gothic cursive script, by several hands. 8-line inhabited initial with dragon and marginal extensions (p. 95); 8-line and 9-line inhabited initial with dragons (p. 56, 80); 8-line and 9-line initial in red, brown, pink, green, and blue (p. 39, 60); 3- and 4-line initials alternating between red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and running headings in red; capitals touched with red in most of the manuscript (p. 1-75, 95). Decorated initial, Initial G, p. 39 Inhabited initial, Initial G, Dragon, p. 56 Decorated initial, Initial G, p. 60 Inhabited initial, Initial G, Dragon, p. 80 Inhabited initial, Initial P, Dragon, p. 95

Modern paper.

Written in Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1250-1275.

between 1250 and 1275 France or Flanders Formerly in a private collection in Iceland; formerly owned by Pierre Patrick Gorman and sold in 1994. Sold by Sam Fogg, cat. 16 (1995), no. 57, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010. 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 Natural history--Pre-Linnean works Codices Manuscripts, Latin--13th century Manuscripts, Medieval 13th century History Philosophy France Flanders French Flemish