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Title

Annus et dies

Authors

• Fabricius, Paulus

Call number

Ms. Codex 1228
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4336212
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4336212

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with some German glosses

Origin

Date

ca. 1583

Place

Vienna

Summary

A collection of works primarily focused on the measurement of dates in relation to the newly adopted Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, including imperial mandates and a comparison of dates between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It includes charts of the position and timing of the sun's rise and set over the course of the year, the position of stars in the sky, and information on the equinoxes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   
• Incipit 1: Ante oculos interq[ue] manuo tibi pono calendas...(f. 1r); Explicit 1: ...utilis et pariter grata futura tibi est (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit 2: Virtutem inquit princeps latinorum lyricorum poeta in columen odimus...(f. 1r); Explicit 2: ...mos tamen est aeque dignus uterq[ue] coli (f. 2r).
   
• Incipit 3: Honorabilis docte fidelis nobis dilecte (f. 2v); Explicit 3: ...et id inprimis propter peregrinos in aula res agentes, et sollicite responsa petentes (f. 3r).
   
• Incipit 4: Ad singulare caesaris maiestatis etc. domini omnium nostrum clementissimum mandatum...(f. 3r); Explicit 4: Promtius efficiat, plura exemplaria imprimi faciat (f. 3r).
   

Extent

32 leaves : 364 x 250 mm. bound to 370 x 255 mm

Foliation

Paper, 32; [ii, 1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary blind-stamped leather (Zacour-Hirsch), with pastedowns of German documents on paper.

Decoration

Section titles in red ink; calendar tables (f. 3v-4r); tables of the months of the Roman calendar (f. 9v-21r); table of the location of the sunrise and sunset during the year (f. 22r); zodiac tables (f. 23v-30r).

Script

Written in a humanistic book script.

Provenance

• Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Solvang, California), 1967.
   

Subjects topical

• Calendar, Gregorian--Early works to 1800
• Calendar reform--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Charts, diagrams, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Tables--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Calendars
• Proclamations
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 3v — Table, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 9v — Table, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Table, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Table, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Table, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Table, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Table, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Table, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Table, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Table, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Table, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Table, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Table, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Table, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Table, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Table, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Table, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Table, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Table, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Table, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Table, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Table, f. 20v
• fol. 21r — Table, f. 21r
• fol. 22r — Diagram, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 28v — Diagram, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v