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Libra Esoterica

[Bifolium from Liber completus in iudiciis stellarum]

by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, Petrus de Regio & Aegidius de Thebaldis

  • First published:
  • 14th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript copied in England of the mid-13th-century Latin translation by Aegidius de Thebaldis (assisted by Petrus de Regio) of the Old Castilian translation of an 11th-century Arabic treatise on astrology. The text on the bifolium is from Book 5 and Book 6 of the work, which are in the section concerning nativities. The bifolium has been bound in reverse so that the leaf with the end of Book 5 and the beginning of Book 6 (and the historiated initial marking the division) are on the first leaf, followed by the originally earlier leaf containing material from Chapter 14 of Book 5. Two marginal section headings (f. 2r) in the same hand as the text; a few brief marginal annotations.

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  • Astrology

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    • “Astrology”· in subject

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2 leaves : parchment, colored illustration ; 314 x 234 (246 x 170) mm bound to 346 x 260 mm; Binding: Modern paper over cardboard, with gilt cover label (Ibn Abi 'l-Rijal, Liber in iudiciis stellarum, England, circa 1320, MS 1317 ES).; Decoration: 8-line historiated initial depicting a monk and a woman with an armillary sphere on a gold ground (slightly rubbed) with a bar border in blue, red, and gold with ivy-leaf finials extending through the full left margin and into the upper and lower margins (f. 1r); 2 3-line decorated initials, one a puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork in red and blue (f. 1r) and the other in red with blue penwork (f. 1v); alternating red and blue paragraph marks.; Latin.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53 lines; prickings visible.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in England in approximately 1320 (Quaritch).; Script: Written in Gothic textualis script.; Title supplied by cataloger based on heading for Book 6 (f. 1r).

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  • ark:/81431/p3p880

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  • Colenda collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9960927563503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 501
  • Provenance: Appears in Quaritch's catalog 1147 (Bookhands of the Middle Ages, Part V, 1991), number 107; sold to a private collector in Switzerland.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2014.; Formerly owned by Bernard M. Rosenthal (note in pencil on letterhead, front flyleaf).; Rosenthal, Bernard M., former owner.; Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 November 2013, lot 34, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal as part of his private collection to Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books (London), 1987.
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