'Prælectiones tresdecim in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxonij habitae, 1620' by Henry Savile and Miscellaneous papers

Title

'Prælectiones tresdecim in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxonij habitae, 1620' by Henry Savile and Miscellaneous papers

Shelfmark

MSS. Savile 37 and 41

Summary

MS. Savile 37: 'Prælectiones tresdecim in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxonij habitae, 1620' by Henry Savile, printed, probably from this MS., at Oxford in 1621. Attached to the inner front cover is a table of observations made at Oxford of the lunar eclipse on May 6, 1696. Written in 1620, 176 pages.

MS. Savile 41: Miscellaneous papers by John Greaves and others, comprising:

Fol. 1. Ptolemy De hypothesibus in Latin

Fol. 9. notes from geometrical printed books

Fol. 23. copy of a letter and geometrical notes sent by Scaliger to Savile, Apr. 7, 1595

Fol. 30. a Latin translation by Joseph Mede of 'Interpretatio Numeri 666', published in English at Oxford in 1642 by Francis Potter, S.T.B.

Fol. 71. an English translation of the Latin letter printed in Holland, addressed by Francis Broccard, formerly secretary to pope Clement viii, to all Protestant princes

Fol. 91. copy of Roger Bacon's treatise De multiplicacione specierum

Fol. 109. an explanation, dated Rome 1616, by 'Jacobum Sirmondum', S.J., of an inscription relating to Lucius Scipio

Fol. 119. 'Of the Tartars, or Moguls, out of Texeira in Spanish', dated 1645

Fol. 141. 'Of the Mountains of the earth, according to the Arabians, and first of the mountains of the moon'

Fol. 166. a printed scheme of the phases of the sun observed at Oxford Sept. 13, 1699

Written at various dates in the 17th century by John Greaves and others, 166 leaves.

Date

Written in 1620 and at various dates in the 17th century

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

1 box

Custodial history

Labelled '37, 41'