Walter Burley, Honorius of Autun, Johannes de Burgundia — c. 1485; English, Writtle
MS. Wood D. 8
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Description
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Title
Walter Burley, Honorius of Autun, Johannes de Burgundia — c. 1485; English, Writtle
Shelfmark
MS. Wood D. 8
Date
c. 1485
Language
Latin
English
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
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Title
Collection of Latin and English items
Shelfmark
MS. Wood D. 8
Summary
Fol. 1. Short calendarial tracts, specified in Huddesford's catalogue, including 'tractatus de 12 signis et eorum constellationibus', beg. 'Aries est signum mobile' (fol. 4)
Fol. 31. Walter Burley's 'liber meteororum', beg. '[D]e primis igitur causis et cetera'
Fol. 48v. 'Canones super tabulas [Gulielmi] Reed', beg. '[V]olentibus pronosticare futuros effectus planetarum', followed by 'communis tractatus de spera' by John Sacroboscus or Halifax, beg. 'Tractatum de spera in 4 capitula' (fol. 49), and (fol. 67) the tables of William Reed
Fol. 93. 'Theorica planetarum by Walter Brytte', beg. 'Circulus eccentricus egresse'
Fol. 115. 'The crafte of horsys and medysyne for the same', beg. 'Take a line & ley yt'
Fol. 156. 'Ymago mundi' of Geoffrey of Huntingdon, prol. beg. 'Ad instruccionem multorum': (fol. 182v) 'Regule algorismi', beg. 'Hic algorismus et cetera. Iste liber quem pre manibus habemus'
Fol. 193. a herbal, beg. 'Agnus castus is an herbe that ys callyd tutsayn', with an index by 'T.P' on fol. 242v
Fol. 247v. John of Bordeaux's treatise (abbreviated) on the plague, beg. 'Her begynyth a nobyll trety made by a good fysycyon', not collated for Some Plague Tractates, by mrs. D. W. Singer (1916)
There is a table of contents at fol. 251v
Labelled '76'
Date
Written at Writtle in Essex about 1485 by 'T.P.', rector of Blystow in Cornwall
Language
Latin
English
Multiple languages
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
266 Leaves
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Collection contents
MSS. Wood: Wood's antiquarian manuscripts
Collection of Latin and English items
