Greek astronomical treatises

Title

Greek astronomical treatises

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 2

Summary

Greek astronomical treatises, etc:

P. 1. Kλανδíον Πτολεμαἱου ὑποθέσεων τών πλανωμένων λόγος.

P. 21. Kλανδíον Πτολεμαἱου σαϕἠνεια καἰ διάταξις τwν προχεἱρων κανόνων τὴς ἀστρονομἱας....

P. 45. Kανόνες, namely kανὼν βασιλέων to A.D. 1451 (p. 45), κανὼν έπιοἠμων πόλεων (p. 49), numerous astronomical tables (p. 59), and consular fasti, A.D. 138-372 (p. 221), all, as Dr Gerard Langbaine has pointed out (MS. Langb. 13, p. 107), the work of a Byzantine writer (see pp. 92, 139).

P. 229. Θέωνος 'Αλεξανδρέως εἱς τοúς προχεἱρους κανόνας τἠς ἀστρονομἱας έξἠγσις: beg. ''H μέν λογικωτίρα έφοδος', as in MS. Savile 4, art. 2. This is Theon's own work addressed to his son Epiphanius.

P. 313. Θέωνος 'Αλεξανδρέως λογική έφοδος εἱς τοúς προχεἱρους κανόνας τἠς ἀστρονομἱας', in four books: beg. 'Την λογική έφοδον'. This is Theon's commentary on Ptolemy (see pp. 358, 389, 430) addressed to his friends Eulalius and Origenes.

P. 453.' Αστρονομικ͡ης κατ' έπιτομήν στοιχειώσεως βιβλίον αον καί βον καί γον, lists only of the 91 + 12 + 15 chapters of the astronomical treatise of Theodorus Metochites: with a chapter and a quarter (pp. 467-70) only of the beginning of the 3rd book (beg. ''Έпιτετμημένον έγκώμιον τ͡ης το͡υ Πτολεμαίου μαθηματικής συντάξεως Η μεν δή πρόθεσις ήμ͡ων έστι ν͡υν').

P. 477. 'Aριστεδου το͡υ Κοιντιλιανο͡υ περί μουσικής, in three books.

Pp. i-ii, 601-2 are two leaves from a 15th-cent. gradual written in England.

Date

Written late in the 16th century by the same scribe as MS. Auct. F. 4

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical facet

On paper, with coloured capitals, etc.

Physical extent

602 pages

Custodial history

Bequeathed by Dr Peter Turner, who died in January 165 0/1: probably claimed for the Savile library in 1655.

Labelled '2'