Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Calendar -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Liturgics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Latin.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Comprises two items: Astronomical tract concerning calendars, i.e., solar and lunar years and cycles, equinoxes and solstices, and determining movable feasts including Easter (f. 1-4); plus a fragment identified as the beginning of the Summa Theologica of Praepositanus Cremonensis (Prevostin of Cremona), Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206-1209 (f. 5-8).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue. Identification of second text from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + i (modern parchment) + 8 + i (modern parchment) + ii (modern paper); [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper and lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 40-45 long lines (f. 1r-4v) and 2 columns of 44-45 lines (f. 5r-8v); ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illustrated with a circular diagram and a table outlined in red (f. 1v), with rubricated headings and red initials throughout.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in France, 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit and explicit (1st work, f. 1r): Primum regulares feriales unde oriantur videamus ... esse aliis dictum est (f. 4v).
Incipit and explicit (2nd work, f. 5r): Qui producit ventos de tesauris suis, qui percussit primogenita egipt: ab homine usque ad pecus [Ps. 134: 7-8] ... quod faceret rem (f. 8v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold in the collection of George Dunn (label inside upper cover) at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Feb. 1913, lot 379.
Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 29 Jan. 1951, lot 44.
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1954.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 62).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 701

Contributor:

Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.

Contains:

Praepositanus, de Cremona, -approximately 1210.

OCLC:

155985444