Details

Subjects:

Calendar, Gregorian -- Early works to 1800.
Calendar reform -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Charts, diagrams, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Tables -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Astronomy -- Tables.
Calendar reform.
Calendar, Gregorian.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Calendars (documents by form)
Proclamations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Graphs.
Tables (Data)

Language:

Latin, with some German glosses.

Biography/History:

Austrian royal astronomer and doctor under Ferdinand I, Maximillian II, and Rudolph V (Rudolph II in the manuscript), kings of Austria and Holy Roman Emperors.

Summary:

A collection of works primarily focused on the measurement of dates in relation to the newly adopted Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, including imperial mandates and a comparison of dates between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It includes charts of the position and timing of the sun's rise and set over the course of the year, the position of stars in the sky, and information on the equinoxes.

Contents:

1. f.1r: Carmina ad lectorem.
2. f.1r-2r: Ad eundem monitio.
3. f.2r-2v: Divi caesaris Ferdinandi epistolae.
4. f.3r: Mandatum caesaris Imperatoris Rudolphi II etc.
5. f.3v-4r: Tabula immotorum et mobilium festorum.
6. f.5r-21r: Mentes calendarii Romani, quibus singulis prima fronte asscripta ab autore sunt disticha.
7. f.21v-22v: His intertexta sunt: Motus solis in circulo signorum sub Eclyptica; tempus ortus et occasus solis; quantitas dierum et noctium artificialium; stellarum quarunda[rum] fixarum positus; crepusculorum apparitio Troparum solis et aequinoctialium punctorum loca etc.
8. f.23r-30r: Tabula geodetica optice in planiciem expolita ad tempus ortus et occasus solis, quantitatem item dierum et noctium artificialium ad seusum oculorum inveniendam idonea.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Incipit 1: Ante oculos interq[ue] manuo tibi pono calendas...(f. 1r); Explicit 1: ...utilis et pariter grata futura tibi est (f. 1r).
Incipit 2: Virtutem inquit princeps latinorum lyricorum poeta in columen odimus...(f. 1r); Explicit 2: ...mos tamen est aeque dignus uterq[ue] coli (f. 2r).
Incipit 3: Honorabilis docte fidelis nobis dilecte (f. 2v); Explicit 3: ...et id inprimis propter peregrinos in aula res agentes, et sollicite responsa petentes (f. 3r).
Incipit 4: Ad singulare caesaris maiestatis etc. domini omnium nostrum clementissimum mandatum...(f. 3r); Explicit 4: Promtius efficiat, plura exemplaria imprimi faciat (f. 3r).
Foliation: Paper, 32; [ii, 1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic book script.
Decoration: Section titles in red ink; calendar tables (f. 3v-4r); tables of the months of the Roman calendar (f. 9v-21r); table of the location of the sunrise and sunset during the year (f. 22r); zodiac tables (f. 23v-30r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather (Zacour-Hirsch), with pastedowns of German documents on paper.
Origin: Written in Vienna, ca. 1583 (f. 3r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Solvang, California), 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 12-13 (Ms. Latin 229).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1228

OCLC:

233699848