Harmonicorum libri III

Description

Title: Harmonicorum libri III
Creator: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Published / Created: [ca. 1550]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks are faint and obscured by ink) of Ptolemy, Harmonicorum libri III
Description: In Greek.
Script: Written in a neat Greek minuscule by Camillus Venetus.
Book and chapter headings and 3-line initials in red. Many delicately drawn diagrams illustrating the text: tones, harmonics, scales, modes, the zodiac.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing with two strands of thread on five single supports adhered to the inside of the boards. Plain wound endbands are sewn on vegetable fiber cores which are laced into pasteboards. The square spine is lined all along with vellum. The edges are lavender. Covered in black goatskin, blind-tooled with a large diamond in concentric borders made up of flowers, foliage and heads in medallions. Two ribbon fastenings now wanting, as is some spine lining and leather.
Provenance: Gift of the Yale Library Associates in 1954.
Extent: ff. i + 65 + ii : 333 x 231 (210 x 120) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaisance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Subject (Topic): Charts, diagrams, etc
Greek literature, Hellenistic
Manuscripts, Medieval
Music theory
Subjects: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Charts, diagrams, etc
Greek literature, Hellenistic
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Music theory > Early works to 1800
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ptolemy, Harmonicorum Libri III. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.