Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560, scribe Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950, former owner
ff. 1-11v. [Brief paragraphs under the following rubrics]: De supputatione motus solis, De conversione temporis oblati in tempus astronomicum, De reductione, De medio solis motu inveniendo, De auge invenienda, De argumento solis, De aequatione investiganda, De hypothesibus solis facientibus ad intelligendum calculum tabularum brutenicarum, Definitiones [of various kinds of circles], Explicatio diagrammatis. [ff. 9v-10, 12r-v blank]. Text on geometrical propositions written by Philip Melancthon at Wittenberg in 1553; place and date in the upper right corner of f. 1 in the same hand as the text. Bound after John Peckham. Perspectiva communis. [Milan: Petrus de Corneno, 1482/1483?] ff. 1-12v. Paper. Layout: 1¹². Catchwords at the lower right corner of the text on each page. Number of lines varies; unruled. Watermark(s): Similar to Piccard, Ochsenkopf XVI, 123, Ansbach, Nürnberg, etc., 1480-82. Written in one vigorous cursie hand. Other Decoration: Headings in red rustic capitals or in red cursive. Rough compass diagrams, ff. 6r-v, 8, 11r-v. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/25/2012. Bound in 19th century German half calf over marbled pasteboards; printed red leather label on the front cover. 17862a. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Geometry--Early works to 1800 Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Diagrams Germany 16th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Bookplate on inside of front cover: Georgius Kloss M.D. Francofurt ad Moenum; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4635 to Thorpe. Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1836; his n. 9028 on the first leaf of the printed book and on the small paper label on the spine; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 868. Belonged to the collector of Lincolniana, Oliver R. Barrett; sale of a"notable American collector" by the American Art Association, New York, 20 December 1920, n. 580 to J. Adams for Henry E. Huntington.
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