Theoricae novae planetarum ... etc.

Item Information

Place of origin:
[Germany]
Language:
Latin
German
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-6: slightly later additions, fol. 1 and 6 a 15th-century German document, possibly testamentary and used here as binding waste, mentioning one Ludolph and "his Katherine," folded and used as the outer bifolium of the added quire. Fol. 2-5 is a text concerning sundials, with diagrams of wall and ground dial-faces (not in Thorndike and Kibre) Pro horologio integro.../...altera parte facta etc.
2. fol. 7: original blank flyleaf, 16th-century addition of a musical setting of Sursum corda, from the Preface of the Mass, on recto; verso blank.
3. fol. 8-39v: Theorica novae planetarum (title, fol. 8); Theoricae planetarum/(text begins, fol. 8v) THEORICAE novae planetarum Georgii purbachii astronomi celebratissimi/ Sol habet tres orbes.../...semper invariabiles/ Telos (Thorndike and Kibre 1513K)
4. fol. 40-44v: De declinatione et latitudine/ Declinatio stellae est distantia.../...ad quorum motum eadem contingunt/ Telos (not in Thorndike and Kibre)
5. fol. 44v-48v: Algorithmus (not in Thorndike and Kibre) Algorithmus dicitur apo ton apithmon .../...est 3us
6. fol. 48v: Treatise on calculating Easter and other movable feasts (not in Thorndike and Kibre) De festo paschali et aliis festis mobilibus.../Singulis annis aureo numero.../...in anno bisextili.
7. fol. 49-50: Calendrical treatise and tables [Q]uicumque hanc exarare [?] voluent tabulam.../......ablata...3d
8. fol. 50v-52: Prayers, with interlinear letters relating each word to the dominical letters A through G (possibly calendrical mnemonics) Infrascripta solemnis oratio de beata virginis mariae.../[G]loriosa(a) domina(g) advocata(f) clemens(ed) nostra(c).../...morienti(e) subveni(d) aberratione(cb) Amen. Item nota Quotidiens cumque g et a supra litterem dominicalis.../[V]enerosa(b) vitali(ag) alimento(f) .../...timpano(c) collandari(b) Cithara(ag).
9. fol. 52v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Germany in the late fifteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) with his bookstamp "Bibliotheca Halliwelliana" on fol. 2, fol. 8, and fol. 52v; his handwritten ex libris and shelfmark "98" on fol. 1v. In 1840, Halliwell sold his manuscripts en bloc to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849); it therefore seems likely that this manuscript is identical to the Peurbach manuscript owned by Rodd (and offered by him in 1836 and 1841). His sale at Sotheby's on 4 February 1850 (lot 55B); later owned by Guillaume Libri, until his sale at Sotheby's on 20 June 1853 (lot 894) to Durant, offered again at Sotheby's on 28 March 1859, lot 846. Large spine label with shelfmark 200 of the Boncompagni collection, where the volume resided between 1862 (see Narducci catalog of that year) and the collection's sale in Jan-Feb 1898. Later sold by Deighton's, Cambridge (inscription on verso of final flyleaf); sold by Wheldon & Wesley, 1926, nr. 267 (description pasted to front cover).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1927.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Pro horologio...
Collation: Paper, with watermarks: a hand (on folio 7 -- the original flyleaf -- and the final flyleaf, similar to Piccard 154471, dated 1512); a crown; a running horse; and a [P] surmounted by a four-leaf clover (similar to Piccard 111443, dated 1499), fol. 52 + i (contemporary free endpaper) ; 1⁶ 2⁸⁺¹ 3⁶ 4⁸ 5¹²⁻¹ 6⁸ 7⁶⁻² i. Folio 7 is a singleton and was originally the first flyleaf of the manuscript; the current first quire was added slightly later. Lacking one leaf after fol. 36; folio 48 (originally the final leaf of quire 6) is now detached and tipped-in at the beginning of the next quire; final two leaves cancelled. register of quires ; First half of quires 3-5 signed b, c, d 1-6 (these signatures confirm that the second quire was originally the beginning of the manuscript and that fol. 7 was originally the opening flyleaf). Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: 1 column, 20-28 lines. Bounding lines ruled by creasing.
Script: Written in a various hands in gothic cursiva in black ink with black rubrics.
Decoration: 1- to 2-line epigraphic capitals in red or black-stroked-red throughout.
Binding: 16th-century leather-covered bevelled boards, the latter covered with later stippled paper, rebacked with modern adhesive cloth tape, lacking ties, early paper flyleaf and pastedown in back.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Ron B. Thomson and Menso Folkerts, "Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks," Beta Version 1.8 (May 2013) ; L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: 1963).
Notes (language):
In Latin with German additions and occasional Greek references.
Identifier:
06_01_018714
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.209
E.197.28 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789122