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Title

Astronomia

Authors

• Appenzeller, Johann, d. 1603
• Mandlacher, Caspar

Call number

Ms. Codex 1217
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4324590
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4324590

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1599-1604

Place

Ingolstadt, Germany

Summary

Refutation of Copernican heliocentric theory and defense of Aristotelian geocentric principles, followed by an exposition of the nature of the universe, the various celestial bodies, their behavior, their form, their composition and elements, their motion, and the zodiac. The Astronomia is followed by commentary or lecture notes on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, possibly also written by Caspar Mandlacher.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Incipit (Work 1): Astronomia agit de corpore simplici, circa centrum mobili, quas tuor praecipuas habet partes... (f. i recto); Explicit (Work 1): ...iri qualium diameter continet in universum duodecim atq[ue] h[?]s de theoria et reliquis Astronomiae p[ar]tib[us] (f. 113v).
   
• Incipit (Work 2): Cum ars doctrina teste Ar[istot]le... (f. 116r); Explicit (2): ...[de] signo [pro]posito multis [?] (f. 161r).
   

Extent

162 leaves : 197 x 159 mm. bound to 27 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 161 + i (modern paper); 1-24, 24-26, 29, 2, 31, 28, 32, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, [1-161], upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 19-34 long lines.

Decoration

Table of eclipses at the latitude of the University of Ingolstadt (f. i verso); table of astrolabe measurements of stars (f. 82r); marginal notes.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of Orville H. Bullitt (sold by Tenner), 1970.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Lecture notes
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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