[Lecture notes on natural history].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Ricci, P., scribe.

Ancini, Antonio, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Astrology--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Biology--Early works to 1800.

Biology.

Psychology--Early works to 1850.

Psychology.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

P. Ricci (signature, f. 49v).

Conte Antonio Ancini (bookstamp and inscription inside upper cover, "Conte Antonio Ancini, condittore nel Collegio de' Nobili di Medena, 1730).

Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Docet (Bologna), 1961.

Physical Description:

205 leaves : paper ; 179 x 135 mm bound to 188 x 147 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1700?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Compilation of lecture notes on astronomy, cosmography, geography, geology, physics, biology, and psychology, which includes the ideas of Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Martianus Capella, Pierre Gassendi, and René Descartes.

Contents:

1. f.1r-32v: De mundi sphera.

2. f.32v-122r: Tractatus de vulgaribus elementis.

3. f.122r-196v: Tractatus de mixtis animatis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 205; i + 1-3¹² 4¹⁰ 5-9¹² 10-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(-10) 16-18¹⁰ 19¹² + i; quires marked lower center recto, many cut off; one catchword lower right verso (f. 105); modern pencil foliation upper right recto, 1-128, [129-150], 151-205.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Watermark: Later variation of Briquet Croissant 5336 (1590) with initials "RSR."

Decoration: Astrological diagrams (f. 8v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 15r, 16r, 47v); green sprinkled edges.

Binding: Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Italy circa 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 37 (Ms. Latin 162).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1092

OCLC:

183887326