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[Perpetual calendar with Metonic cycle].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 420
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Easter--Early works to 1800.
- Perpetual calendars--Early works to 1800.
- Perpetual calendars.
- Easter.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- devotional calendars
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2001.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 8 leaves : paper, illustrated ; 201 x 142 mm bound to 203 x 147 mm
- Production:
- [Italy?], [1480?]
- Language Note:
- Latin, with a few notes in Italian.
- Summary:
- Liturgical calendar with some astronomical notes, such as indications of when the sun enters signs of the zodiac, and a circular diagram with 19 divisions around the circumference, corresponding to the 19 Julian years of the Metonic cycle (f. 1r). The calendar is followed by a few tables concerning the golden numbers and the dates of Septuagesima and Easter (f. 7r-7v), a hand-shaped diagram and table concerning the moon and the signs of the zodiac (f. 8r), and a list of combinations of planets (f. 8v).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Script: Written in humanistic script.
- Decoration: 2 diagrams in red and black ink (circle, f. 1r; hand with numbers at joints, f. 8r); 4 tables in red and black ink (f. 7r-8r); red ink used for headings and feast days in calendar (f. 1r-6v).
- Binding: Vellum ruled and stamped in gold.
- Origin: Possibly written in Italy, ca. 1480 (dates in table, f. 7v).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 74 (LJS 420).
- Cited as:
- LJS 420
- OCLC:
- 759121861
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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