Phisicae particularis cursus

Name:

Caranza, Emmanuel, 1691-1734; Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1730

Description:

Student lecture notes from the science course taught by Emmanuel Caranza, including astronomy (concluding in favor of the Tychonian model of the solar system, f. 53r-54r), geography (including discussion of the Americas, f. 165v-167r), minerals, plants, animals, medicine, and the soul.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2015.

Subject:

Science -- Early works to 1800; Science; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Cosmology -- Early works to 1800; Cosmology; Geography -- Early works to 1800; Geography

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; drawings (visual works); lecture notes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

420 leaves : paper; 185 x 130 (160-165 x 95) mm bound to 200 x 145 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Graduate of and then professor at the Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide in Rome; after 1733 bishop of the diocese of Siros, Greece.; Title from title page (f. v recto).; Foliation: Paper, 420 leaves; [i-vi], 1-146, [i], 147-332, 332-383, [385-413 (blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 24-27 long lines. Sporadic use of catchwords.; Script: Written in cursive script.; Decoration: Full illustrated border in color and gilt including an armillary sphere and a globe arranged to display the Mediterranean (f. iv recto); full-page illustrations in ink of an armillary sphere (f. ii recto) and a compass rose (f. 164v); 20 cosmological and astronomical diagrams in the sections of text on the solar system and celestial bodies (f. 34r, 35v, 36v, 37r, 44v, 45r, 45v, 46r, 47v, 49r, 51r, 52v, 67r, 68r, 68v, 75v, 77r, 78r, 79r, 80r).; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) vellum; mottled edges (Cadogan).; Origin: Written in Rome in 1730 (title page, f. v recto).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1803