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

Title

Astronomical treatises and tables.

Authors

• Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
• Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
• John, of Saxony, active 1327-1355

Other related names

• Humberd, Charles D., 1897-1960, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1881
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977175852003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1017938709
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366197 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3183481x http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000257

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a Hebrew alphabet and a few Hebrew words (f. 95v)

Origin

Date

circa 1481

Place

Germany

Summary

Late 15th-century collection of Latin astronomical treatises and tables of the 12th through 14th centuries, illustrated with six volvelles and numerous diagrams. The Alphonsine tables have calculations added in the bottom margins for various cities, mostly in Germany, including Erfurt, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mainz, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Regensburg, and Worms (f. 45v-51v), and a colophon dated 30 December 1481 (f. 61v). A leaf at the end of the volume has the Hebrew alphabet and a few Hebrew transliterations, including Magdeburg, carefully written parallel to the spine (f. 95v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.1r-14v: Theorica planetarum / [Gherardo da Cremona] -- 2. f.15r-36v: [Sphaera mundi] / [Joannes de Sacro Bosco] -- 3. f.40r-61v: Tabulae illustris regis Alfonsii -- 4. f.63r-68v: [Astronomical tables] -- 5. f.69r-73v: [Canons for the Alphonsine tables] -- 6. f.75r-82r: Canones tabularum regis Alphonsii / [John of Saxony] -- 7. f.82r-84v: Correctorium tabularum Alphonsinarum -- 8. f.84v-87v: Canones eclipsium / magistri Iohannis Dankonis de Saxonia -- 9. f.87v-89r: [Treatise on solar eclipses] -- 10. f.89v-90v: Tabulae planetarum augentium ad annos Christi collectos -- 11. f.90v: Introitus solis in 12 signa anno Domini 1400 -- 12. f.91r-94r: [Notes on the correction of the tables and canons] -- 13. f.95r: Tabula veri motus lunarium in una hora et in uno minuto diei -- 14. f.95v-96r: [Notes on the tables]
   

Extent

93 leaves : 307 x 205 mm bound to 315 x 225 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 93 + i (modern paper) leaves; 1(8, -1) 2(8, -1) 3-6(6) 7(6, -1) 8-9(6) 10(6, -6) 11(6) 12(6, -6) 13(6) 14-15(8); modern foliation in pencil, 1-96, upper right recto (including numbered stubs, f. 39, 62, 74).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern flexible parchment with two pairs of leather ties, by Richard C. Baker (St. Louis, Missouri), 2008.

Layout

Texts written in two columns of a varying number of lines, except for Gherardo da Cremona's work, written in long lines (f. 2r-11r).

Decoration

Large climate zone world map in brown and red ink (f. 33v); numerous astronomical diagrams, many with colored wash; six volvelles (f. 1v, 13v, 19v, 25v, 35r, 35v; one small volvelle missing, f.20r); tables in red and brown ink; three-line initials alternating between red and blue, with a seven-line space left blank for the first initial, in the Theorica planetarum (f. 1r-14v) and one set of canons for the Alphonsine tables (f. 69r-74v); two-line initials in red in the Sphaera mundi (f. 15r-36v); two-line initials, underlining, and capitals touched in red in the canons of John of Saxony and following works (f. 75r-89r).

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Erik von Scherling, Rotulus I, 2 (April 1931), number 1161, to Charles D. Humberd (Barnard, Missouri).
   
• Gift of Charles D. Humberd to Conception Abbey (Conception, Missouri).
   
• Sold by Conception Abbey, 2017.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Treatises
• Volvelles
• World maps
• Alphabets (symbols)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Diagrams
• Paper
• Tables
• Astronomy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Theorica planetarum
• fol. 15r — Sphaera mundi

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Large diagram
• fol. 1v — Volvelle
• fol. 11r — Large diagram
• fol. 11v — Large diagrams
• fol. 12r — Large diagrams
• fol. 12v — Large diagrams
• fol. 13r — Large diagrams
• fol. 13v — Volvelle
• fol. 14r — Large diagrams
• fol. 14v — Large diagram
• fol. 17r — Large diagram
• fol. 19v — Marginal volvelle
• fol. 22r — Large diagram
• fol. 25v — Marginal volvelle
• fol. 33v — World map
• fol. 35r — Volvelle
• fol. 35v — Volvelle