University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 826
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1678
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 826
- Title:
- Liber de astronomia
- Jābir ibn Aflah, Abū Muhammad, 12th cent
- Place:
- France[?
- Date:
- 1300?
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 64 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 261 x 198 (193 x 128) mm bound to 270 x 203 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 1828-1897
Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (front flyleaf recto).
Foliation: Parchment, ii + 64 + i; [1-64]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic script by several hands.
Decoration: Decorated initial in red and blue (f. 1r); decorative ascenders and descenders added by a later hand beginning at the end of Book 5 (f. 31v), some with red ink (f. 33v-34r); trigonometric and spherical trigonometric diagrams throughout, most commonly in the margins; occasionally the text is shaped to accommodate a larger diagram (for example, f. 23v); replacement strips for...
Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in France, but possibly written in Spain, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue) or ca. 1250-1300 (Thomas R. Adams).
Incipit: Scientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam fidei.
Explicit: ... i[n] duo media s[ed] q[uod] e[st] i[n] figura prima.
Contemporary and near-contemporary marginal notes in several hands throughout.
Illegible note with the date 1440 (f. 63v).
Formerly owned by Don A. Canovas del Castillo (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Wilfred M. Voynich, 1920 (Thomas R. Adams).
Purchased, 1949. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9931800413503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xg9fb7v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
