Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

An astronomical treatise by Heinrich von Langenstein.

Contents:

f. 1r-14v: "[f. 1r: text] Cum inferiorum cognitio ad celestium conducat inquisitionem ... [f. 14v: text] sed sufficit modo nunc in generali tetigisse modum. Explicit tractatus."

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title and author from Zacour-Hirsch.
Decoration: Astronomical diagrams.

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).
Incipit in Thorndike, L., Catalogue of Incipits (Cambridge, 1937), col. 143.
Incipit in Thorndike, 2nd ed. (1963), col. 309.
Duhem, P., Le system du mode (Paris: Librairie scientifique A. Hermann et fils, 1913-1917), IV, 143-151.
Roth, E., "Zur Bibliographie des Henricus des Hassia," Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Beiheft 2, discusses the question of authorship.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 827

OCLC:

155925429