Greek scientific treatises

Title

Greek scientific treatises

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 1

Summary

Greek scientific treatises:

Fol. 1. Σέξτου 'Εμπειρικοῦ πρὸς μαθηματικοῦς (cod. S of Deutschmann, Rheinisches Museum, lxiv (1909), 247).

Fol. 195v. Δισσοὶ λόγοι (Dialexeis) (cod. S of E. Weber, Phil.-hist. Beiträge C. Wachsmuth ...überreicht, p. 35).

Fol. 200. Eὐκλείδου δεδομένα (no. 35 in the list of Menge, Euclidis opera, VI, p. xv).

Fol. 228. Aὐτολύκου περὶ κινουμένης σϕαίρας (not used by Hultsch).

Fol. 234. Eὐκλείδου ϕαινόμαενα (no. 35 in the list of Menge, f Euclidis opera, VIII, p. xxvi).

ol. 240. Θεοδοσίου περὶ νυκτῶν καὶ ἡμερῶν

Fol. 258v. Θεοδοσίου περὶ οἰκἡσεων.

Fol. 264. Aὐτολύκου περὶ έπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων (see no. 4 above).

Fol. 276. Logistica Barlaam.

At the end (fol. 318) are a few calendarial notes partly in Greek, partly in Latin, and the scribe's colophon, which contains an incorrect date: ''Eλαβε τέρμα έπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου εϕπθ' (5589) έλαϕηβολιῶνος πέμπτη έπὶ δέκα. At fol. 327b occurs the beginning of a Latin translation of Euclid's Phaenomena, perhaps by David Gregory.

Date

Written by James Dalrymple of Ayr in the late 16th or early 17th century (cf. MS. Auct. E. 3. 16 and E. 3. 4)

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

327 Leaves

Custodial history

Fols. i, 321 are leaves from a 13th-cent. Latin MS. on vellum containing Jeremiah xlvii. i-lii. 3.

Labelled '1'