Robert the Englishman of Montpellier (?) — 14th century; Italian
MS. Canon. Ital. 157
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Description
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Title
Robert the Englishman of Montpellier (?) — 14th century; Italian
Geometrical treatise — 14th century; Italian
Johannes de Sacro Bosco — 14th century; Italian
Treatise on compotus — 14th century; Italian
Treatise on compotus — 14th century; Italian
Treatise on arithmetic — 14th century; Italian
Ventura da Bergamo, Ps.-Aristotle, Ps.-Seneca — 14th century; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 157
Place of origin
Italian
Date
14th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Geometrical treatises
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 157
Summary
Geometrical treatises:
A:
Fol. 1. '...Practica Geometrie magistri Roberti Anglici de Monte Pessulano': beg. 'Geometrie due sunt partes, scilicet theorica & practica.'
Fol. 7. 'Tractatus de mensuris arearum': beg. 'Scias quod aree.'
Fol. 9. '...Practica Geometrie': beg. 'Geometrie due sunt partes principales, theorica & practica.'
B: Fol. 17. '...Optima practica de mensuris': beg. 'Pertica per perticam.'.
C: Fol. 22. '...Sp[h]era Johannis de Sacro Bosco.'.
D: Fol. 36. '...Conputus manualis bonus et utilis', a treatise on the calendar: beg. 'Ad cognoscendum artem': at the end (fol. 39) are the lines 'Cisio Janus.'.
E: Fol. 40. '...Compotus', a similar treatise: beg. 'Ad habendam scientiam.'.
F: Fol. 50. '...Scientia Algorismi in fractionibus seu partibus integrorum': beg. 'Sicut in integris': with two calendarial pieces headed 'mocccolxxo' (fol. 62V).
G: Fol. 64. '...Breuis doctrina dictaminis a magistro Ventura de Pergamo [Bergamo ?] tradita', a rhetorical work: beg. 'Quoniam introducentis.'.
H:
Fol. 72. '...Yconomica Aristotelis': beg. '[E]conomica & pollitica differunt': a paraphrase (?) of Arist. Oecon. i. 1-4
Fol. 76. '...Liber de demonibus Senece': beg. 'Omne peccatum accio uoluntaria est.'
Fol. 78. '...Liber Senece de paupertate': beg. 'Honesta inquit Epycurus.'
Date
Written in the 14th century
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, partly in double columns
Physical extent
81 Leaves
Custodial history
'...[erased] dominus Petrus de Fossis' (16th cent.). The MS. which appears as no. 157 in the Catalogue of Canon. Ital. is now MS. Canon. Misc. 114.
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Collection contents
Canonici Italian
Geometrical treatises
