Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Canon super almanach; De 12 signis et eorum naturis in generali

Authors

• Jean de Lignières (http://viaf.org/viaf/275520118)

Other related names

• Manlove, Timothy, -1699, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/15117205)
• Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/50151830)
• Rev. J. C. Jackson, former owner
• Wake, Henry T., former owner
• Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/5305717)
• Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/56546891)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 3
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 164

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; English

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript consists of a series of astronomical tables and a secondary text concerning astrology and planetary movements.

Notes

• Fols. 1-2 damaged and badly torn, fol. 7 tear in lower margin with evidence of repair
   
• Gothic--textualis: fols. 1-10, fol. 19, fols. 15-18; Gothic--anglicana: fols. 11-14
   
• Two contemporary flyleaves (fols. 1-2) are included in the modern foliation; leaves are separated by modern conservation paper, which is not included in the foliation
   

Watermark

Unidentified

Extent

19+i; 217 x 145 mm bound to 233 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (foliated in two parts: fols. 1-10 and fols. 1-11)

Collation

Interleaved with modern paper; structure uncertain; Part 1: fols. 1-10, (fol. 19 rightly belongs with this part); Part II: fols. 11-19; fols. 11-14, 15-18, and 19 have been foliated together by a modern hand; however, there are differences in language (fols. 11-14: Middle English, fols. 15-18: Latin), decoration (fols. 11-14 are rubricated throughout with two-line red initials and rubricated subject headings, while fols. 15-18 have no rubrication and blank spaces with guide letters for initials), as well as differences in annotation patterns; fol. 19 appears to belong with Part 1; structure and content warrant further enquiry

Support

Mixed

Binding

Full red morocco, blind-tooled, "Manuscript XIV & XV Cent." on the spine

Layout

Part I: frame ruled in ink, each line ruled, thirty-nine lines, pricking for each line; written area: 164 x 105 mm

Part II: written in long lines, no evidence of ruling, tables ruled in ink with evidence of pricking

Decoration

Part 1 (fols. 1-10): red and black ink, manicule (fol. 10v), some annotations; Part II: red paragraphs, two-line initials in red, rubricated headings throughout, annotations throughout, diagram of an astrolabe (fol. 18r)

Script

Gothic--textualis

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Inscription on first page: "Dr Manloves gift to Ralph Thoresby"; Given by John Frederick Lewis' widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2055, no. 164.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 5-6, no. 3.

Keywords

• Astrology
• Tables
• Science
• 14th century
• 15th century
• Gothic
• Diagrams
• Damage
• Paper
• Gloss
• England
• English

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Table of contents

• fol. Part 1 3r — Canon super almanach
• fol. Part 2 1r — De 12 signis et eorum naturis in generali

Decorations

• fol. Part 1 7v — Annotation in bottom margin
• fol. Part 1 9v — Annotation in bottom margin
• fol. Part 1 10r — Annotations in bottom and right margin
• fol. Part 1 10v — Manicule
• fol. Part 2 8r — Illustration of Astrolabe