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

Title

Cosmographies

Authors

• Calcidius
• Aristotle
• Aristotle
• Philo, of Alexandria
• Cleomedes
• Plato

Other related names

• Valgulius, Carolus, d. 1498, translator
• Argyropoulos, Iōannēs, -1486, translator
• Tifernas, Lilius, 1417 or 18-1486, translator

Call number

Ms. Codex 761
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212086402
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487502 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3h98zj30

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek

Origin

Date

circa 1500

Place

Italy

Summary

Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• 2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• 4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
   
• 3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
   
• 1. f.2r-218r: Timaeus Platonis. -- 2. f.219r-234v: Liber Aristotelis de mundo ad Alexandrum. -- 3. f.237r-274r: Liber Philonis de incorruptione mundi. -- 4. f.277r-338v: Cleomedis de contemplatione orbium excelsorum.
   

Extent

341 leaves : 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm bound to 214 x 146 mm

Collation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); 1-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31-34¹⁰ 35⁶; [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original tooled calf.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family (early ownership inscription in ink, f. 340v).
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
   

Subjects topical

• Cosmography--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Greek
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• annotations
• diagrams
• translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Diagrams
• Astronomy
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Cosmology

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
• fol. 36v — Manicule, f. 36v
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 52r — Diagram, f. 52r
• fol. 55r — Diagram, f. 55r
• fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
• fol. 61v — Diagram, f. 61v
• fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
• fol. 65v — Diagram, f. 65v
• fol. 68r — Diagram, f. 68r
• fol. 68v — Diagram, f. 68v
• fol. 69v — Diagram, f. 69v
• fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
• fol. 71v — Diagram, f. 71v
• fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
• fol. 81r — Diagram, f. 81r
• fol. 81v — Diagram, f. 81v
• fol. 83v — Diagram, f. 83v
• fol. 93v — Manicule, f. 93v
• fol. 110r — Manicule, f. 110r
• fol. 116v — Manicule, f. 116v
• fol. 132v — Manicule, f. 132v
• fol. 153r — Manicule, f. 153r
• fol. 155r — Manicule, f. 155r
• fol. 165v — Manicule, f. 165v
• fol. 175r — Manicule, f. 175r
• fol. 177r — Manicule, f. 177r
• fol. 192r — Manicule, f. 192r
• fol. 197v — Manicule, f. 197v
• fol. 208v — Manicule, f. 208v
• fol. 213v — Manicule, f. 213v
• fol. 218r — Diagram, f. 218r
• fol. 281r — Diagram, f. 281r
• fol. 284r — Diagram, f. 284r
• fol. 285v — Diagram, f. 285v
• fol. 290v — Diagram, f. 290v
• fol. 296v — Diagram, f. 296v
• fol. 298r — Diagram, f. 298r
• fol. 300r — Diagram, f. 300r
• fol. 300v — Diagram, f. 300v
• fol. 302r — Diagram, f. 302r
• fol. 303r — Diagram, f. 303r
• fol. 303v — Diagram, f. 303v
• fol. 310r — Diagram, f. 310r
• fol. 313v — Diagram, f. 313v
• fol. 315v — Diagram, f. 315v
• fol. 316r — Diagram, f. 316r
• fol. 323r — Diagram, f. 323r
• fol. 333r — Diagram, f. 333r
• fol. 335r — Diagram, f. 335r