Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Lecture notes on natural history

Other related names

• Ricci, P, scribe
• Ancini, Antonio, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1092
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4238473
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4238473

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1700

Place

Italy

Summary

Compilation of lecture notes on astronomy, cosmography, geography, geology, physics, biology, and psychology, which includes the ideas of Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Martianus Capella, Pierre Gassendi, and René Descartes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Later variation of Briquet Croissant 5336 (1590) with initials "RSR."

Extent

205 leaves : 179 x 135 mm. bound to 188 x 147 mm

Collation

Paper, 205; i + 1-3¹² 4¹⁰ 5-9¹² 10-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(-10) 16-18¹⁰ 19¹² + i; quires marked lower center recto, many cut off; one catchword lower right verso (f. 105); modern pencil foliation upper right recto, 1-128, [129-150], 151-205.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Decoration

Astrological diagrams (f. 8v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 15r, 16r, 47v); green sprinkled edges.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• P. Ricci (signature, f. 49v).
   
• Conte Antonio Ancini (bookstamp and inscription inside upper cover, "Conte Antonio Ancini, condittore nel Collegio de' Nobili di Medena, 1730).
   
• Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Docet (Bologna), 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Natural history--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Geography--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Biology--Early works to 1800
• Psychology--Early works to 1850

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

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  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De mundi sphera, f. 1r
• fol. 32v — Tractatus de vulgaribus elementis, f. 32v
• fol. 122r — Tractatus de mixtis animatis, f. 122r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Diagram, f. 16r
• fol. 47v — Diagram, f. 47v