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Title

Compendio di sfera, e di geografia nel quale si contengono li costumi, governi, religgioni, e porprietà di tutti i paesi dell'mondo ...

Call number

Ms. Codex 418
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486589
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486589

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

This is v. 1 only (of a 2 v. set), including the "De sfera" and physical geography; there is a table of contents to both volumes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r). Addendum to the title "Con tutte le novittá occorse circa la muttasion de dominii stabilliti nella Pace d'Utrech, e Bada nell anno 1713" indicates that the text is up-to-date.
   

Extent

262 leaves : 210 x 170 (158 x 114) mm. bound to 218 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 262 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-251, [ix]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Decoration

Pen-and-ink diagrams of the solar system: sistema di Tolomeo (f. 4v); sistema di Copernico (f. 5r); sistema di Ticone (f. 6r); eclipses of the sun and moon, (f. 16r-v, 17v); and a compass rose (f. 260v).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with table of contents (f. 252r-255r) and foliation in a second hand.

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Geography--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Globes--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Della sfera in generale, f. 1r
• fol. 22r — Delli usi della sfera, f. 22r
• fol. 34r — Compendio di geografia, f. 34r
• fol. 252r — Table of contents, f. 252r

Decorations

• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 16r — Diagram, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Diagram, f. 17v
• fol. 259v — Diagram, f. 259v