Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.

Contributor:

Darmarios, Andreas, active 1550-1580, associated name.

Speyr Passavant, J. H. de, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Harmonics.

Music theory--Early works to 1800.

Music theory.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

diagrams

Manuscripts, Greek.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by J. H. de Speyr-Passavant (Basel); perhaps his no. 5 (label on upper cover, inscription inside upper cover); probably sold at auction as part of his collection at R. E. Evans, 27 Apr. 1836.

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 3877 (spine label, later inscription in pencil inside upper cover); sold at auction as part of his collection at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 1975, lot 3404.

Formerly in the collection of The Garden Ltd.; sold at auction as part of that collection at Sotheby's (New York), 9 Nov. 1989, lot 65.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1997, lot 47, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Physical Description:

242 leaves : paper ; 291 x 196 (213 x 95) mm bound to 294 x 210 mm

Place of Publication:

[Spain or Italy], [between 1560 and 1580?]

Language Note:

Greek.

Summary:

Porphyry's commentary on about half of Ptolemy's treatise Harmonics, focusing on harmonics and acoustics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, i + 242; 1-11¹⁰ 12⁴ 13-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22-27⁸ 28⁸(-2); [1-242]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 1-12; gatherings 13-28 signed 16-31 in Greek numerals, lower center of first recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 20 long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Decoration: 8 diagrams in brown or brown and red ink (f. 223v-241r); rubrics, decorative initials, and occasional words in red.

Binding: Contemporary 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards; rebacked with old spine laid down.

Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, probably between 1560 and 1580, under the direction of the 16th-century scribe and dealer Andreas Darmarios (inscription, inside upper cover) but not in his hand.

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. 27 (LJS 97).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 97

OCLC:

707414615

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model