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Title
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The Scholarly Tradition
Manuscript
Call Number
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UPenn LJS 300
Video Orientation
<a href="https://youtu.be/yucPKby5B_Y">LJS 300 Video Orientation</a>
Full Digitization
<a href="http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9949184223503681">LJS 300 on Penn in Hand</a>
Pages Displayed
14v-15r
Author(s)
Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg, 1436-1476)
Place of Origin
Lambach (?), Upper Austria
Language(s)
Latin
Materials
Paper and parchment
Number of Leaves
377
Dimensions
162 x 120 mm
Binding
Original leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped with cornerpieces, bosses, and two clasps. Bound at the Benedictine abbey in Lambach.
Provenance (Ownership History)
Benedictine abbey of Lambach; Duke Gabor Festetics von Tolna; Harrison D. Horblit; Irene and Peter Ludwig; J. Paul Getty Museum; Lawrence J. Schoenberg
Further Reading
<span>Crofton Black, ed., </span><em>Transformation of Knowledge: Early Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenber</em><span>g (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), 74.</span>
Date
1500
Description
<p>A major figure in fifteenth-century German astronomy, Regiomontanus achieved such wide renown that he appears in Schedel’s 1493 <em>Nuremberg Chronicle </em>holding an astrolabe. He was a friend and collaborator of Georg von Peuerbach, completing Peuerbach’s abridgment of the <em>Almagest </em>in addition to publishing his own works on arithmetic, trigonometry, and astronomy. This lavish manuscript was produced after the first edition of the <em>Calendarium </em><em>and Ephemerides </em>in 1476, and may reflect a patron’s desire for a more deluxe object. The <em>Calendarium </em>includes information on lunar and solar eclipses, variations in day length, and the zodiac and planets for 1475-1530. The <em>Ephemerides </em>provides positions for the sun, moon, and planets for each day of the year from 1480 to 1506, with a pink finding tab at the beginning of each year. A liturgical calendar at the beginning of the manuscript includes customized additions to the printed text that suggest a patron monastery in southern Germany or Austria, most likely the Benedictine abbey in Lambach due to the inclusion of its patron saint, Kilian (feast and translation, 7 and 14 July). On display are some of this manuscript’s eclipse diagrams, which appear at the beginning of the <em>Calendarium </em>(fols. 12r-16v) and on the first page of most years in the <em>Ephemerides</em>.</p>
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Title
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Calendarium and Ephemerides
Description
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<p>A major figure in fifteenth-century German astronomy, Regiomontanus achieved such wide renown that he appears in Schedel’s 1493 <em>Nuremberg Chronicle </em>holding an astrolabe. He was a friend and collaborator of Georg von Peuerbach, completing Peuerbach’s abridgment of the <em>Almagest </em>in addition to publishing his own works on arithmetic, trigonometry, and astronomy. This lavish manuscript was produced after the first edition of the <em>Calendarium </em><em>and Ephemerides </em>in 1476, and may reflect a patron’s desire for a more deluxe object. The <em>Calendarium </em>includes information on lunar and solar eclipses, variations in day length, and the zodiac and planets for 1475-1530. The <em>Ephemerides </em>provides positions for the sun, moon, and planets for each day of the year from 1480 to 1506, with a pink finding tab at the beginning of each year. A liturgical calendar at the beginning of the manuscript includes customized additions to the printed text that suggest a patron monastery in southern Germany or Austria, most likely the Benedictine abbey in Lambach due to the inclusion of its patron saint, Kilian (feast and translation, 7 and 14 July). On display are some of this manuscript’s eclipse diagrams, which appear at the beginning of the <em>Calendarium </em>(fols. 12r-16v) and on the first page of most years in the <em>Ephemerides</em>.</p>
Date
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1500
Calendar
Eclipse diagrams
Tables