Details

Subjects:

Science -- Early works to 1800.
Science.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Cosmology -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmology.
Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Geography.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Graduate of and then professor at the Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide in Rome; after 1733 bishop of the diocese of Siros, Greece.

Summary:

Student lecture notes from the science course taught by Emmanuel Caranza, including astronomy (concluding in favor of the Tychonian model of the solar system, f. 53r-54r), geography (including discussion of the Americas, f. 165v-167r), minerals, plants, animals, medicine, and the soul.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. v recto).
Foliation: Paper, 420 leaves; [i-vi], 1-146, [i], 147-332, 332-383, [385-413 (blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 24-27 long lines. Sporadic use of catchwords.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Decoration: Full illustrated border in color and gilt including an armillary sphere and a globe arranged to display the Mediterranean (f. iv recto); full-page illustrations in ink of an armillary sphere (f. ii recto) and a compass rose (f. 164v); 20 cosmological and astronomical diagrams in the sections of text on the solar system and celestial bodies (f. 34r, 35v, 36v, 37r, 44v, 45r, 45v, 46r, 47v, 49r, 51r, 52v, 67r, 68r, 68v, 75v, 77r, 78r, 79r, 80r).
Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) vellum; mottled edges (Cadogan).
Origin: Written in Rome in 1730 (title page, f. v recto).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2015.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1803.

Contributor:

Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide.

OCLC:

967516302