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Primum mobile : with theses added to the theory and cannons to the practice.

Author/Creator:
Titi, Placido, 1603-1668.
Publication:
[England], [between 1675 and 1799]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
83 leaves : paper ; 370 x 234 (355 x 174) mm bound to 377 x 252 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.
Summary:
Astrological work presenting 70 theses on celestial influence (p. 5-17), 42 canons of instructions for the use of astronomical tables (p. 19-65), and 30 examples of nativities (charts of the exact date, time, and location of birth) of prominent figures, mostly born in the second half of the 16th century (p. 66-151, with a title page for the section on the unnumbered page before p. 66). The examples include heads of state, high-ranking members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and aristocrats (including one woman, Leonora Ursina, p. 147); each of the nativities begins with an astrological diagram and also includes small tables. An index follows the examples (p. 152-158). This English translation of a Latin work published in Padua in 1657 (p. i, unnumbered page before p. 66) differs substantially from the English translations published in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, ii + 83 + ii; [i-iv], 1-65, [ii], 66-143, 145-151, [152-161]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 56-61 long lines; ruled in lead, with vertical bounding lines and no margin at bottom of page.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: 30 astrological diagrams in ink, all the same in form with different data entered, in the section of examples (p. 69-149).
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis with IV countermark.
Binding: 18th-century calf, rebacked.
Origin: Written in England in the late 17th or 18th century.
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Christopher Tower (b. 1775), Weald Hall, Essex (armorial bookplate inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Frederick Hockley.
Probably sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Apr. 1887.
Formerly owned by George Winslow Plummer (bookplate inside upper cover).
Sold by E + R Kistner Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, 1988.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 33.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
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. 79 (LJS 202).
Cited as:
LJS 202
Contributor:
Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, 1614-1662, dedicatee.
Tower, Christopher, former owner.
Hockley, Frederick, 1808-1885, former owner.
Plummer, George Winslow, 1876-1944, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
747503824