Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Annotations.
Diagrams.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
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. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.
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.
Binding: Original tooled calf.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
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.

Penn Provenance:

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

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. 4 (Ms. Latin 13).
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A, Corrigenda, Library Chronicle 38 (1972), p. 99 (Ms. Latin 13).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part V." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item M2).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 41, 200-201 (cat. 57).
Edition of 2nd work: G. F. Muscarella, A Latin translation of the...De mundo, PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1958.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 761.

Contains:

Plato. Timaeus. Latin
Calcidius.
Aristotle. De mundo. Latin
Argyropoulos, Iōannēs, -1486, translator.
Aristotle.
Philo, of Alexandria. De incorruptione mundi.
Tifernas, Lilius, 1417 or 1418-1486, translator.
Cleomedes. Elementary theory of the heavens. Latin.
Valgulius, Carolus, -1498, translator.
De contemplatione orbium excelsorum.

OCLC:

212086416

Web link:

Collation model

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