Almagest (DS9867) (Q43605)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862098x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862098, mssHM 65)
- Almagest
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Almagest (DS9867) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862098x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862098, mssHM 65) |
|
Statements
Almagest
0 references
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
0 references
Pierleone, da Spoleto, -1492
0 references
Gunsaulus, Frank W. 1856-1921
0 references
Historiated initials--France--13th century
0 references
Decorated initials--France--13th century
0 references
1279
13. century
1275Gregorian
1299Gregorian
0 references
Extent: ff. 271 : parchment ; 226 x 319 mm
0 references
Title supplied from printed catalog.
0 references
Support: Parchment.
0 references
Script: Littera textualis.
0 references
Layout: 1-1712 1814(through f. 218) 1912 2012(-11 after f. 240, with no loss of text) 21-2212 238(-7, 8). Quires signed in arabic numerals on last verso bottom center and occasionally on the first recto. 34 long lines, ruled in fine lead with wide lower margins.
0 references
Span folios: ff. 1-271v.
0 references
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, f. 1, 6-line, depicts the prince Abu 'l-Wafâ' holding an armillary sphere and discoursing with a scholar.
0 references
Other Decoration: 5- or 4-line initials, after f. 2 set outside the written space, in white-patterned pink or blue on ground of the other color, infilled with colored trilobe leaves or biting animal heads, with cusped bar border inhabited by drolleries (rabbit and hound; lion; bird). Numerous geometrical projections in the margins in red, green, black, and yellow ink.
0 references
Copied in Southern France in 1279 according to the date on f. 184 (part of the explicit of Book 11).
0 references
Assigned Date: s. XIII4/4.
0 references
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/10/2012.
0 references
Erased inscriptions at the top of ff. ii, 1. Belonged to Pier Leoni (d. 1492), physician to Lorenzo de' Medici; n. 111 in the inventory of his books compiled in 1582 and published by L. Dorez, "Recherches sur la bibliothèque de Pier Leoni, médecin de Laurent de Médicis," Revue des Bibliothèques 7 (1897) 81-106. Identified by J. Ruysschaert, "Nouvelles recherches au sujet de la bibliothèque de...
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references