Details

Subjects:

Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with a few terms in Greek (f. 11r-12r).

Biography/History:

Author of first work was a student at Wittenberg of Ambrosius Rhodius, professor of mathematics at Wittenberg from 1608 (cited f. 12v, 71r); author of second work composed the work at the house of Paul Roeber, professor of theology at Wittenberg from 1627 (colophon, f. 168r) and author of a work on astrology published in Wittenberg in 1627.

Summary:

Mathematical text in 4 sections on general principles of mathematics, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, followed by an astrological text based on spherical, geocentric astronomy, with tables from the work of Copernicus and Brahe.

Contents:

1. f.i recto-82v: Enchiridion mathematicum continens elementa matheseōs.
2. f.86r-168r: Prooemium astrologiae.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption titles (f. 1r, 86r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 168 + i (modern); [i, 1-18, 20-168], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto (f. 1-85) and upper right recto (f. 86-168); contemporary pagination in second work, 1-161 (f. 86r-168r), upper center.
Layout: Written in 28-32 long lines, on the inner half of each page, with the outer margin (the center of the page) marked by folding in the first work (f. i recto-82v) and ruled in red ink in the second work (f. 86r-168r); the outer half of the page is used for diagrams and notes.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script, by multiple hands.
Decoration: Numerous small diagrams in Section 3 (Geometry, f. 56v-71r) and a few larger diagrams in Section 4 (Astronomy, f. 72r-73v, 80v) of the first work, in black and red ink; astrological diagram (f. 99r) and numerous tables in the second work; notes and underlining in red ink.
Binding: Modern quarter calf, paper boards, gilt spine.
Origin: Written in Wittenberg (first work, added note at end, f. 82v; second work, colophon, f. 168r), in 1629 (first work, dated throughout) and 1632 (second work, colophon, f. 168r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1214.
Appears in Hans Peter Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 10.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 4.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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. 50 (LJS 173).

Cited as:

LJS 173

Contributor:

Honeyman, Robert B., former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Contains:

Prooemium astrologiae.

OCLC:

815530889

Web link:

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