[Monocordium]

Alternate Title:

De monocordio et de atramento

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1450

Description:

Collection of works, including a treatise on music theory focusing on tonality as illustrated by the Pythagorean monochord and philosophers like Aristotle, Nicomachus, and Boethius; recipes and instructions for making various types of ink, stain removers, toothache remedies; a love poem in a later hand; two recipes in Italian.

Language:

Latin; Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.

Subject:

Aristotle. Poetics Early works to 1800; Boethius, -524. De institutione musica; Nicomachus, of Gerasa. Encheiridion harmonikēs; Pythagoras and Pythagorean school -- Early works to 1800; Monochord -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- Early works to 1800; Music theory; Ink; Pigments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Pigments; Monochord; Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); poems; recipes; treatises; manuals (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Handbooks and manuals

Physical Description:

16 leaves : paper; 208 x 148 (170 x 100) mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from f. 1r.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-6v: Monocordium.; Table of contents: 2. f.6v-15r: De atramento.; Table of contents: 3. 15v-16r: [Poem in Latin]; Table of contents: 4. 16v: [Recipes in Italian]; Collation: Paper, 16; 1¹⁶; 109-124; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written 24-26 lines per page; frame-ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a secretary cursive script with a humanistic script on f.15v-16v.; Decoration: Illustration on f. 5r: conventional rudimentary diagram of a monochord, showing divisions of music intervals.; Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1450.; Latin, with two recipes in Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 922