Details

Subjects:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Alphabets -- Specimens.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Letter writing, Hebrew.
Music theory -- 17th century.
Singing -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800.
Singing -- Instruction and study.
Perpetual calendars -- Early works to 1800.
Perpetual calendars.
Music theory.
Alphabets.
Arithmetic.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Alphabets (symbols)
Diagrams.
Gregorian chants.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Specimens.

Language:

Italian and Latin, with examples in Hebrew and Greek.

Contents:

1. f.1v-34: Alphabetum Hebraicum.
2. f.34v-62r: Osservationi nella lingua volgare, 1682 / Giovanni Andrea Salici.
3. f.62v-68r: Orthografia / Hieronymi Caphari.
4. f.68v-86v: Del cyclo solare [and other sections on calendars].
5. f.95v-106r: Regola per imperare il canto figurato [e] gregoriano.
6. f.117r: Modo ... per trovare ... la prima domenica dell'advento.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); title page presents as the author the name Blasius, with the word Bellunensis (meaning from the northern Italian town of Belluno) added in Egyptian letters; date 1682 is in Hebrew.
Alphabetum Hebraicum is based on Aldo Manuzio.
Foliation: Paper, 112; [iv], 1-20, 22-86, 95-98, [i], 99-110, 112-[117]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 21 appears to have been cut out; blank folio preceding f. 99; f. 107-116 blank, f. 87-94 cut out).
Script: Written in a single hand.
Decoration: Alphabetical tables; astronomical diagrams in red, blue, and green ink (f. 68v-84v); "Tabula Paschalis antiqua Reformata" with a movable calendar tipped in (f. 85v-86v); a drawing of a Guidonian hand (f. 98v), illustrated title page (f. [iii] recto) depicts the ouroboros, the Nativity, the resurrected Christ, and a hand holding a quill pen, with "Blasius" and undeciphered title.
Music: Contains examples of note values and scales in various keys on 5-line staves in black ink (f. 95v-97v) and of psalm intonations and the Magnificat in 8 tones in black square notation on 14-line staves in red ink (f. 101r-106r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with 3 watercolor illustrations depicting a stack of books with the word Leges; spiders with the words Sicut aranearum; and a spider's web with the word Tela (inside upper cover).
Origin: Written in Italy, 1682 (f. [iv]r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leo Olschki (Florence), 1964.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia), Supplement A (2), Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 3 (Ms. Italian 211).
The Orthografia by Hieronymus Capharus appeared in his De conscribendis epistolis, Cortona, 1546 f. 77v-84v; the ms. version differs slightly.

Publications about:

Jones, Jeanette Di Bernardo. "University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 436: A Description and Analysis of Contents." M.M. thesis, Louisiana State University, 2007.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 436.

Contributor:

Blasius, Bellunensis.

Contains:

Cafaro, Girolamo.
Salici, Giovanni Andrea. Osservationi nella lingua volgare.
Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515. Ortografia latina.
Othographia hieronymi.
Del cyclo solare.
Regola per imperare il canto figurato.
Tabula paschalis antiqua reformata.

OCLC:

155969221

Access Restriction:

Access to this item is subject to staff review.