Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

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__|a  (OCoLC)ocn779360007

__|a  (OCoLC)779360007

__|a  (PU)4851000-penndb-Voyager

__|a  PAULM |c  PAULM |e  amremm |d  PAULM

__|a  PAUM

__|a  ocn779360003

_9|a  LJS 47

0_|a  Boethius, |d  -524.

10|a  [De institutione musica] |h  [manuscript].

__|a  [France, ca. 1490]

__|a  52 leaves : |b  paper, col. ill. ; |c  281 x 204 (206 x 142) mm. bound to 291 x 211 mm.

__|a  Title supplied by cataloger.

__|a  Collation: Paper, 52; 1¹²(missing first 2 leaves) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6⁴; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

__|a  Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39-41 lines; ruled in lead, with little of the ruling now visible.

__|a  Script: Written in semi-humanistic script.

__|a  Decoration: Diagrams and tables throughout in various combinations of red, blue, and brown ink; 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red or blue; headings, roman numerals in text, and a few marginal notes in red; capitals touched with red.

__|a  Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Soleil, 13977 (Fleurus and Namur, 1487-1491) and 13979 (variants made in France and used in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Rhineland, 1512-1540).

__|a  Binding: Early 18th-century (?) parchment over pasteboard with parchment-cord clasps and pastedowns and endleaves with the watermark S. Bartolomeo Delle Fabbriche; Boeci De Music Ms. written on spine in ink.

__|a  Origin: Written in France, ca. 1490.

4_|a  Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), |c  p. 28-29 (LJS 47).

__|a  15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music, in which the text reflects an older (10th-century) tradition and the numerous diagrams related to ratio and pitch demonstrate later developments in the tradition.

__|a  LJS 47

__|a  Ms. codex.

__|a  Latin.

1_|a  Sold by J & J Lubrano to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1997.

1_|a  Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

__|a  Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

_0|a  Music theory |x  History |y  500-1400.

_0|a  Music, Greek and Roman |v  Early works to 1800.

_7|a  Codices. |2  aat

_7|a  Diagrams. |2  aat

_7|a  Treatises. |2  aat

_0|a  Manuscripts, Latin |y  15th century.

_0|a  Manuscripts, Renaissance.

__|b  Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts |a  University of Pennsylvania |e  3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. |j  LJS 47

__|a  C0 |b  PAULM

__|a  DLA |b  20101117