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Cosmographies Ms. Codex 761
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.

Physical Description

Support: paper; Extent: 341 leaves : 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm bound to 214 x 146 mm; Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); 1-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31-34¹⁰ 35⁶; [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.

Decoration

Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).

4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).

3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).

1. f.2r-218r: Timaeus Platonis. -- 2. f.219r-234v: Liber Aristotelis de mundo ad Alexandrum. -- 3. f.237r-274r: Liber Philonis de incorruptione mundi. -- 4. f.277r-338v: Cleomedis de contemplatione orbium excelsorum.

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Keywords
15th century
16th century
Diagrams
Astronomy
Italy
Italian
Paper
Cosmology
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Italy

Date

Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Binding

Original tooled calf.

Language

Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek

Provenance

Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family (early ownership inscription in ink, f. 340v).

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.

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Place of Origin

Italy

Date

Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Language

Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek

Provenance

Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.

Notes

Ms. codex.

2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).

4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).

3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).

1. f.2r-218r: Timaeus Platonis. -- 2. f.219r-234v: Liber Aristotelis de mundo ad Alexandrum. -- 3. f.237r-274r: Liber Philonis de incorruptione mundi. -- 4. f.277r-338v: Cleomedis de contemplatione orbium excelsorum.

Script note

Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.

Decoration Note

Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
16th century
Diagrams
Astronomy
Italy
Italian
Paper
Cosmology
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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