Compendio di sfera, e di geografia nel quale si contengono li costumi, governi, religgioni, e porprietà di tutti i paesi dell'mondo ...

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Globes--Early works to 1800.

Globes.

Solar system--Early works to 1800.

Solar system.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1962.

Physical Description:

262 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 210 x 170 (158 x 114) mm bound to 218 x 175 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

This is v. 1 only (of a 2 v. set), including the "De sfera" and physical geography; there is a table of contents to both volumes.

Contents:

1. f.1r-21v: Della sfera in generale.

2. f.22r-33v: Delli usi della sfera [includes problems in latitude, determining the hour for rising and setting of the sun, declensions, etc.].

3. f.34r-251r: Compendio di geografia [world geography by continent

Europe, Asia, Africa, America

describing physical and political units with some remarks on customs].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 2r). Addendum to the title "Con tutte le novittá occorse circa la muttasion de dominii stabilliti nella Pace d'Utrech, e Bada nell anno 1713" indicates that the text is up-to-date.

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 262 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-251, [ix]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with table of contents (f. 252r-255r) and foliation in a second hand.

Decoration: Pen-and-ink diagrams of the solar system: sistema di Tolomeo (f. 4v); sistema di Copernico (f. 5r); sistema di Ticone (f. 6r); eclipses of the sun and moon, (f. 16r-v, 17v); and a compass rose (f. 260v).

Binding: Contemporary calf.

Origin: Written in Italy, 18th century, after 1714.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 131 (Ms. Italian 189).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 418

OCLC:

155968824