Details

Subjects:

Horology -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
Rhetoric, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Italian language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric.
Italian language -- Rhetoric.
Horology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Lecture notes.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with some examples in Italian in the second treatise.

Biography/History:

Baldigiani was born in Florence, entered the Jesuit order in 1662, and was a professor of mathematics and theology at the Collegio Romano. Aquino, also a Jesuit, was born in Naples.

Summary:

Two treatises based on academic lectures. The first, on sundials, includes discussions of history, equinoxes, and meridians, and concludes with several diagrams; the second, on rhetoric, includes examples from Horace, Lucan, Martial, and Petronius, as well as examples in Italian from Petrarch.

Contents:

1. f.4r-50v: Tractatus de horologiis solaribus / Antonio Baldigiani.
2. f.52r-72v: Tractatus de stylo arguto / Carlo d'Aquino.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Titles based on individual title pages for the treatises (f. 4r, 52r).
Foliation: Paper, 75; [1-75]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords lower right corner in second work.
Decoration: 24 geometric/astronomical diagrams at the end of the first treatise.
Binding: Contemporary limp parchment, tears across spine, minor staining (Gaskell).
Origin: Written in Rome in 1690 and 1697, perhaps by Tarquinius Trasius, whose name appears on the first title page.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2005.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1015

Contributor:

Trasius, Tarquinius, transcriber.

Contains:

Aquino, Carlo d', 1654-1737.
Tractatus de stylo arguto.

OCLC:

155927539