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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942279563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181368379
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4227956

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of works, including a treatise on music theory focusing on tonality as illustrated by the Pythagorean monochord and philosophers like Aristotle, Nicomachus, and Boethius; recipes and instructions for making various types of ink, stain removers, toothache remedies; a love poem in a later hand; two recipes in Italian.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title from f. 1r.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Layout

Decoration

Illustration on f. 5r: conventional rudimentary diagram of a monochord, showing divisions of music intervals.

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Pythagoras and Pythagorean school--Early works to 1800
• Monochord--Early works to 1800
• Music theory--Early works to 1800
• Ink
• Pigments--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Recipes
• Treatises
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• Italy
• Treatise
• Italian

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 922: Monocordium are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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