Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

An astronomical treatise by Heinrich von Langenstein and a treatise on astronomy and astrology variously attributed to Albertus Magnus or Roger Bacon.

Contents:

1. f.1r-14v: De improbatione concentricorum et epicyclorum / Heinrich von Langenstein.
2. f.15r-20v: Speculum philosophiae / Albertus Magnus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Collective title and author from title and author for Work 1 from Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 20 + i (modern paper); 91-110; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-20]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43-47 lines.
Decoration: Illuminated initial in gold, red, and blue at the beginning of each work (f. 1r, 15r); numerous initials in red and blue; rubricated in red and blue.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in England after 1362 (date on f. 14v) in one hand (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Jacques Rosenthal, 1916.
Sold by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1923.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 2 (Ms. Latin 4).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 827

Contributor:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner.

Contains:

Speculum philosophiae.
Speculum astronomiae.

OCLC:

155913531