Details

Subjects:

Easter -- Early works to 1800.
Perpetual calendars -- Early works to 1800.
Perpetual calendars.
Easter.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Devotional calendars.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with a few notes in Italian.

Summary:

Liturgical calendar with some astronomical notes, such as indications of when the sun enters signs of the zodiac, and a circular diagram with 19 divisions around the circumference, corresponding to the 19 Julian years of the Metonic cycle (f. 1r). The calendar is followed by a few tables concerning the golden numbers and the dates of Septuagesima and Easter (f. 7r-7v), a hand-shaped diagram and table concerning the moon and the signs of the zodiac (f. 8r), and a list of combinations of planets (f. 8v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Written in humanistic script.
Decoration: 2 diagrams in red and black ink (circle, f. 1r; hand with numbers at joints, f. 8r); 4 tables in red and black ink (f. 7r-8r); red ink used for headings and feast days in calendar (f. 1r-6v).
Binding: Vellum ruled and stamped in gold.
Origin: Possibly written in Italy, ca. 1480 (dates in table, f. 7v).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 74 (LJS 420).

Cited as:

LJS 420

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

759121861

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page