[Cosmographies]

Contributor:

Argyropoulos, Iōannēs, -1486 (translator); Tifernas, Lilius, 1417 or 1418-1486 (translator); Valgulius, Carolus, -1498 (translator)

Name:

Calcidius; Aristotle

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1500

Description:

Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family (early ownership inscription in ink, f. 340v).; Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/146

Subject:

Cosmography -- Early works to 1800; Cosmography; Astronomy, Greek; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); annotations; diagrams; translations (documents); Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

341 leaves : paper, illustrations; 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm bound to 214 x 146 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.2r-218r: Timaeus Platonis. -- 2. f.219r-234v: Liber Aristotelis de mundo ad Alexandrum. -- 3. f.237r-274r: Liber Philonis de incorruptione mundi. -- 4. f.277r-338v: Cleomedis de contemplatione orbium excelsorum.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).; Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); 1-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31-34¹⁰ 35⁶; [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.; Decoration: Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works.; Binding: Original tooled calf.; Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).; 2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).; 3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).; 4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.; Latin, with annotations in Latin and Greek.; Related Work: Plato. Timaeus. Latin; Related Work: Aristotle. De mundo. Latin; Related Work: Philo, of Alexandria. De incorruptione mundi.; Related Work: Cleomedes. Elementary theory of the heavens. Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 761