Alphabetum Hebraicum; Graecum; Italicum; Hebraicum ante Esdram; Caldeaum; Arab[ic]um; Egiptoiorum; Indicum; Siriorum; Saracenorum; Illiricum domini Hieron[y]mi; auctore Cyrillo; Persarum ...; Francorum [i.e. Germanorum; et Sabianum]

Name:

Blasius, Bellunensis; Cafaro, Girolamo; Salici, Giovanni Andrea; Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; 17th century

Date:

1682

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Leo Olschki (Florence), 1964.

Subject:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Alphabets -- Specimens; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants; Letter writing, Hebrew; Music theory -- 17th century; Singing -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800; Singing -- Instruction and study; Perpetual calendars -- Early works to 1800; Perpetual calendars; Music theory; Alphabets; Arithmetic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Alphabets (symbols); Diagrams; Gregorian chants; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

112 leaves : paper, illustrations, music; 160 x 97 mm bound to 171 x 105 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-34: Alphabetum Hebraicum. -- 2. f.34v-62r: Osservationi nella lingua volgare, 1682 / Giovanni Andrea Salici. -- 3. f.62v-68r: Orthografia / Hieronymi Caphari. -- 4. f.68v-86v: Del cyclo solare [and other sections on calendars]. -- 5. f.95v-106r: Regola per imperare il canto figurato [e] gregoriano. -- 6. f.117r: Modo ... per trovare ... la prima domenica dell'advento.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); title page presents as the author the name Blasius, with the word Bellunensis (meaning from the northern Italian town of Belluno) added in Egyptian letters; date 1682 is in Hebrew.; Alphabetum Hebraicum is based on Aldo Manuzio.; Foliation: Paper, 112; [iv], 1-20, 22-86, 95-98, [i], 99-110, 112-[117]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Folio 21 appears to have been cut out; blank folio preceding f. 99; f. 107-116 blank, f. 87-94 cut out).; Script: Written in a single hand.; Decoration: Alphabetical tables; astronomical diagrams in red, blue, and green ink (f. 68v-84v); "Tabula Paschalis antiqua Reformata" with a movable calendar tipped in (f. 85v-86v); a drawing of a Guidonian hand (f. 98v), illustrated title page (f. [iii] recto) depicts the ouroboros, the Nativity, the resurrected Christ, and a hand holding a quill pen, with "Blasius" and undeciphered title.; Music: Contains examples of note values and scales in various keys on 5-line staves in black ink (f. 95v-97v) and of psalm intonations and the Magnificat in 8 tones in black square notation on 14-line staves in red ink (f. 101r-106r).; Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with 3 watercolor illustrations depicting a stack of books with the word Leges; spiders with the words Sicut aranearum; and a spider's web with the word Tela (inside upper cover).; Origin: Written in Italy, 1682 (f. [iv]r).; Italian and Latin, with examples in Hebrew and Greek.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 436