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Diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. An early 17th-century inscription on the first flyleaf refers to an edition of Peurbach published in Venice in 1616.
Support: paper; Extent: 45 leaves : 288 x 214 mm bound to 298 x 220 mm; Collation: Paper, 45; 1⁴ (first leaf pastedown) 2⁴(+1) 3-5⁴ 6⁶ 7-10⁴ 11⁴ (last leaf pastedown); modern pagination in pencil, [vii, 2-57, i, 58-65, 67-73, 75-78, vi], upper outer corners. The numbers used as pagination in this record are in fact numbers assigned to diagrams, which are usually one per page, except for the second page of the double-page diagram beginning on p. 57; p. 65, which contains diagrams 65 and 66; and p. 73, which contains diagrams 73 and 74.
Written in italic script in brown and red ink.
73 full-page diagrams, 1 double-page diagram (p. 57 and facing page), and 4 half-page diagrams in black, red, and brown ink with yellow washes depicting planetary motion. 25 have volvelles or other moving parts attached with thread.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Padua?, Italy
Written in northern Italy, probably Padua, in the mid-16th century.
Contemporary morocco tooled in silver gilt.
Latin
Appeared in Libreria antiquaria Hoepli's catalog Livres, manuscrits et imprimé (Milan, 1954), no. 24.
Sold by Libreria antiquaria Hoepli through Zeitlin & Ver Brugge (Los Angeles) to Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ms. Astron. 4/Ms. 9, 1956.
Formerly owned by Pietro Giuseppe (latinized in inscription as Petrus Joseph) Ignati Mattei Cattochii of Vicus Lancesium (Viù, near Turin; inscriptions dated 1708-1709, inside upper cover and first flyleaf recto).
Appeared in Laurence Witten's cat. 10 (1979), no. 65.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 26 June 1991, lot 43.
Appeared in Sam Fogg's cat. 15 (London, 1992), no. 48.
Sold by William Patrick Watson Antiquarian Books (London), cat. 7 (1996), no. 79, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Francesco Rolandi of Turin, teacher of mathematics (inscription dated 1655, inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1112.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Padua?, Italy
Written in northern Italy, probably Padua, in the mid-16th century.
Latin
Appeared in Libreria antiquaria Hoepli's catalog Livres, manuscrits et imprimé
Sold by Libreria antiquaria Hoepli through Zeitlin & Ver Brugge
Formerly owned by Pietro Giuseppe
Appeared in Laurence Witten's cat. 10
Sold at auction at Christie's, 26 June 1991, lot 43.
Appeared in Sam Fogg's cat. 15
Sold by William Patrick Watson Antiquarian Books
Formerly owned by Francesco Rolandi of Turin, teacher of mathematics
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in the Honeyman collection of scientific books and manuscripts, Part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1112.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. An early 17th-century inscription on the first flyleaf refers to an edition of Peurbach published in Venice in 1616.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in italic script in brown and red ink.
73 full-page diagrams, 1 double-page diagram (p. 57 and facing page), and 4 half-page diagrams in black, red, and brown ink with yellow washes depicting planetary motion. 25 have volvelles or other moving parts attached with thread.
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.
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.
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