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Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)"]},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Physical Format","value":["manuscripts (documents)","Manuscripts, Latin","Manuscripts, European"]},{"label":"Description","value":["Letter in Torricelli's cursive hand to Father Marin Mersenne, praising a lens owned by Ferdinando II, promising to send a lens he himself made, and discussing spherical geometry.  Written from Florence, dated 9 January 1645, on a single paper leaf with a watermark of a bishop's miter.  Tipped into a modern morocco binding with gilt title and erroneous date of 1649."]},{"label":"Extent","value":["1 leaf : paper ; 275 x 201 mm"]},{"label":"Language","value":["Latin"]},{"label":"Coverage","value":["Early works to 1800","1421-1737"]},{"label":"Note","value":["Mathematician and philosopher in the court of Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany.","Lawrence J. Schoenberg \u0026 Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.","In Latin."]},{"label":"Relation","value":["The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278","Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3js31","Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs201.html"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["Geometry -- Early works to 1800","Geometry","Mathematics -- Early works to 1800","Mathematics","Optics -- Early works to 1800","Optics"]},{"label":"Geographic Subject","value":["Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737"]},{"label":"Physical Location","value":["Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 201"]},{"label":"Provenance","value":["Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps; sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H.P. Kraus, March 1978.","Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 89, and cat. 186 (1991), no. 156.","Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 32.","Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.","Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.","Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.","Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.","Stanitz, John D., former owner."]},{"label":"Rights","value":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"]},{"label":"Bibnumber","value":["9959683393503681"]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/e6e2775f-37a5-47e1-87e9-65d6211a57d9/full/!600,600/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/e6e2775f-37a5-47e1-87e9-65d6211a57d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"sequences":[{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current order","rendering":[{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/pdf","label":"Download PDF","format":"application/pdf"}],"canvases":[{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/canvas/p1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"1r","height":5089,"width":3680,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/e6e2775f-37a5-47e1-87e9-65d6211a57d9/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":3680,"height":5089,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/e6e2775f-37a5-47e1-87e9-65d6211a57d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/canvas/p1"}],"rendering":[{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/assets/e6e2775f-37a5-47e1-87e9-65d6211a57d9/original","label":"Original File - 56.2 MB","format":"image/tiff"}]},{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/canvas/p2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"1v","height":5089,"width":3680,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/c2e51f4e-7a25-47e1-8883-1bb28c78b047/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":3680,"height":5089,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/c2e51f4e-7a25-47e1-8883-1bb28c78b047","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/canvas/p2"}],"rendering":[{"@id":"https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3js31/assets/c2e51f4e-7a25-47e1-8883-1bb28c78b047/original","label":"Original File - 56.2 MB","format":"image/tiff"}]}]}]}