Codex Palatinus germanicus 2

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Cod. Pal. germ. 2, sheet 1r: Petrus Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum (title sheet)

The Codex Palatinus germanicus 2 is an early modern manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg . The Codex belongs to the Codices Palatini germanici , the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, which have been kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816 ; The signature of the Heidelberg University Library and the common scientific name is Cod. Pal. germ. 2 (short form: Cpg 2 ).

The codex contains a copy of Petrus Apian's comprehensive German-language edition of his printed work Astronomicum Caesareum .

The manuscript was created between 1540 and 1581, probably in Heidelberg.

description

Cod. Pal. germ. 2, sheet 2r: Petrus Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum , "Petrus Apianus to the reader" (preface)
Cod. Pal. germ. 2, sheet 3r: Petrus Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum , "Das erst Capitel"

The Codex is a paper manuscript with 40 leaves, 34 of which are described. The foliation of the 17th century was done without counting the leaves; the blank sheets 34a-34e were later given a modern count.

The sheet size of the codex is 32.1 × 22.2 cm, with a writing space of 23.5 × 13.5–15 cm described with 25 to 28 lines per page. The continuous writing is a current font from the 16th century, the headings are in chancellery script . All sheets are written by one hand.

The cardboard binding and the parchment spine were added in 1970; an old copert has been preserved and is enclosed with the manuscript.

origin

Cod. Pal. germ. 2 was created between 1540 and 1581. The original of the manuscript, a print from the Apians printing house, was created in 1540. And when the Bibliotheca Palatina was cataloged in 1581, the manuscript was already part of the inventory of the monastery library of the Heidelberg Church of the Holy Spirit .

The manuscript was probably also created in Heidelberg; Count Palatine Ottheinrich owned a copy of the print, which later came to the Vatican Apostolic Library (BAV) and stayed there, by 1558 at the latest ( Ottheinrich binding from that year) . This copy could have been the direct template.

The writing language is High German with Bavarian writing peculiarities.

Like the other manuscripts of the Electoral Palatinate libraries, the Codex came into the possession of the Vatican Library in Rome after the conquest of the Electoral Palatinate in the Thirty Years' War in 1622 and was only brought to Heidelberg in 1816 with the other German-language holdings of the Palatina as part of the regulations during the Congress of Vienna returned.

Content

On pages 1r – 34v the codex contains a very precise copy of the German print edition of Petrus Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum from his own printing house in Ingolstadt. The German-language print is a summary without pictures of his large compendium on the astronomical knowledge of his time, which he submitted in the same year 1540 in Latin as a print with many hand-colored representations.

See also

literature

  • Karin Zimmermann : Cod. Pal. germ. 2. Petrus Apian: Astronomicum Caesareum. In: Karin Zimmermann (arrangement), with the participation of Sonja Glauch, Matthias Miller, Armin Schlechter: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181). Catalogs of the Heidelberg University Library, Volume 6. Reichert Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-89500-152-9 , p. 4f. ( Digitized version ).

Older catalog:

  • Jakob Wille: Pal. Germ. 2. Petrus Apianus. In: Jakob Wille: The German Palatinate Manuscripts of the XVI. and XVII. Century of the university library in Heidelberg. With an appendix: the manuscripts of the Batt'schen library. Catalog of the manuscripts of the university library in Heidelberg, volume 2. Verlag von Gustav Koester, Heidelberg 1903, p. 3 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Cod. Pal. germ. 2  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 2 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 4 ( digitized version ; accessed February 1, 2020).
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 2 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 4 ( digitized version ; accessed February 1, 2020).
  3. ↑ Signatures Stamp.Barb.XI66 (int.2) .Riserva and Stamp.Pal.II.146 (6) , see description page of the BAV; accessed February 1, 2020.
  4. ^ UB Heidelberg : The Bibliotheca Palatina - Fates of a world-famous library ; accessed January 18, 2020.
  5. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section follows the description by Karin Zimmermann: Cod. Pal. germ. 1 . In: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 1–181) . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 4f. ( Digitized version ; accessed February 1, 2020).
  6. ↑ cf. Willy Hartner: Apian, Peter . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), pp. 325–326; accessed February 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ cf. Christian Kahl:  Peter Apian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 107-114.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  8. ^ Printing of the German-language summary of the Astronomicum Caesareum , template for Cod. Pal. germ. 2 .