Libro per brevem

apprend[ere] le discipline mattemat[iche] con varii discorsi delle scienze indovinatorie, ricavati da varii autori, con diversi giudizi astrolog[ici] ... [etc.]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

154 leaves : paper ; 297 x 210 (265 x 160) mm bound to 310 x 217 mm; Binding: Contemporary leather with metal clasps, one partially lacking.; Decoration: Pen and ink title vignette of a globe against a background of mountains and a constellation with a border containing winged figures, a dog, and the motto Altior e gelidis elevato (f. 1r), large decorated initial with pen and ink drawings of human figures (f. 20r), several smaller pen and ink initials and marginal decorations with bird heads (f. 2r, 5r, 7r, 9r), a volvelle (f. 16r), numerous diagrams (for example, f. 11v, 16v), diagrams of hands for use in palm reading (f. 122r, 134v, 136r, 138r, 139v, 141r, 142r, 143v) with some outlined in red ink (f. 151r-154v), occasional decorated headings (f. 2v), and astronomical symbols used throughout.; Italian, with some Latin.; Layout: Written in 26-30 long lines.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Florence after 1689 (title page, f. 1r).; Pagination: Paper, 154 leaves; [viii], 1, [i], 2, [i], 3, [i], 4, [i], 5, [i], 6, [i], 7, [i], 8, [i], 9-30, 30-106, 106-217, [i], 1-3, [lxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-154], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.; Professor of science, mathematics, and astronomy and member of the Florentine Academy (title page, f. 1r). Name appears in the manuscript with spelling variations (f. 1r, 2r, 118r).; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Script: Written in an Italian semi-cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.; Title from title page of predominant work (f. 1r).