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| Title: | Aethicus Ister. Aethici Philosophi Schytae Cosmographia |
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| Dates: | 1850-1853 |
| Manuscript Number: | Crerar Ms 148 |
| Size: | 308 p. (30.5 cm.) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Manuscript study after the Cosmographia, a seventh-century fictitious compilation in six books, purporting to be an abridged Latin translation by St. Jerome of an original Greek text. Transcribed by Karl Pertz, from Leipziger Stadtbibliothek Manuscript 89, with notes of variant readings from ten other manuscripts, in margins. |
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Manuscript study after the Cosmographia, a seventh-century fictitious compilation in six books, purporting to be an abridged Latin translation by St. Jerome of an original Greek text. Transcribed by Karl Pertz, from Leipziger Stadtbibliothek Manuscript 89, with notes of variant readings from ten other manuscripts, in margins. Illustrated with four copies on trace paper, of calligraphy from Leipzig Manuscript 89, pasted on heavy cream paper. Identified on title page: "Ex codici Lipsiensi saeculi VIIII in descripsit Carolvs Pertz." Inscribed on title page, in different, 19th century hand: "Die Kosmograph‹e des Istrier Aithikos. ed. Wuttke, 1853. 2 Aug. 1854..." (This manuscript is probably a research document for B765.A25P4, Karl Augustus Friedrich Pertz, (1828-1881), De Cosmographia Ethici, Libri Tres (Berlin: Sumptibus Friderici Nicolai, 1853). Compare to PA8232.A3W9, Henrich Wuttke, ed., Cosmographiam Aethici Istrici ab Hieronymo... (Leipzig: Dyk'sche Buchhandlung, 1853/54).) Ex libris: "Karl Ehrenburg, Wurzburg." Bound in marbled paper over boards.
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Crerar Ms 148 |