Tractatus de horologiis solaribus anno 1690

Contributor:

Trasius, Tarquinius (transcriber)

Name:

Baldigiani, Antonio, 1647-1711; Aquino, Carlo d', 1654-1737

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1690

Description:

Two treatises based on academic lectures. The first, on sundials, includes discussions of history, equinoxes, and meridians, and concludes with several diagrams; the second, on rhetoric, includes examples from Horace, Lucan, Martial, and Petronius, as well as examples in Italian from Petrarch.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2005.

Subject:

Horology -- Early works to 1800; Sundials -- Early works to 1800; Sundials; Rhetoric, Ancient -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric, Ancient; Italian language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric; Italian language -- Rhetoric; Horology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; lecture notes; treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

75 leaves : paper, illustrations; 190 x 128 (160 x 104) mm bound to 195 x 135 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Baldigiani was born in Florence, entered the Jesuit order in 1662, and was a professor of mathematics and theology at the Collegio Romano. Aquino, also a Jesuit, was born in Naples.; Titles based on individual title pages for the treatises (f. 4r, 52r).; Table of contents: 1. f.4r-50v: Tractatus de horologiis solaribus / Antonio Baldigiani.; Table of contents: 2. f.52r-72v: Tractatus de stylo arguto / Carlo d'Aquino.; Foliation: Paper, 75; [1-75]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords lower right corner in second work.; Decoration: 24 geometric/astronomical diagrams at the end of the first treatise.; Binding: Contemporary limp parchment, tears across spine, minor staining (Gaskell).; Origin: Written in Rome in 1690 and 1697, perhaps by Tarquinius Trasius, whose name appears on the first title page.; Latin, with some examples in Italian in the second treatise.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1015