Astronomical treatises and tables. — 14th century, second quarter; English

Title

Astronomical treatises and tables. — 14th century, second quarter; English

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 17

Date

14th century, second quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Diagrams.

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 614)

Binding

Red leather on boards, 15th-cent. English work, with numerous diagrams.

Title

Astronomical treatises and tables

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 17

Summary

Astronomical treatises and tables:

Fol. 1. The 'Kalendarium nouum magistri Petri de Dacia', who was rector of the university of Paris in 1326, apparently composed about 1300, as printed by Léopold Delisle in Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, xlviii. 532: beg. 'Quere in superiori parte istius tabule numerum annorum'. This is preceded by paschal tables (fol. 1v)

Fol. 11v. a 'practica astrolabii' in 50 chapters, with a table thereof (fol. 11), beg. 'Nomina instrumentorum sunt hec'

Fol. 22v. 'De spera celi', beg. 'Spera celi ut dicit Ysidorus est species quedam'

Fol. 46. Robert Grossetete's tract 'de impressionibus aeris seu de prognosticatione' (cod. H. in Dr Ludwig Baur's edition of Die philosophischen Werke des Robert Grosseteste, Münster, 1912)

Fol. 50. the 'Theorica planetarum' commonly ascribed to Gerard of Cremona, of which other copies are in MSS. Bodl 464, Bodl. 300, Bodl. 367, Bodl. 472, beg. 'Circulus egresse cuspidis'. For other MSS. see Mathematica, vi. 112

Fol. 60v. 'Alkabitius in libro introductorio judiciorum astronomicorum facto ad Seydule regem, interpretatus a Johanne Hispanico', being John of Seville's translation of the 10th-cent. treatise by 'Abd al-'Azīz ibn 'Uthmān al Kabīsī, printed at Venice in 1482: beg. 'Postulata a domino prolixitate'

Fol. 94v. 'Argorismus Johannis de Sacro bosco' (alias Holywood), printed in Halliwell's Rara Mathematica (1841), p. 1, from another MS., beg. 'Omnia que a primitiva origine rerum'

Fol. 104. Alexander of Villedieu's metrical arithmetic in 286 lines, here without title, printed Op. cit., pp. 73-83, beg. 'Hec algorismus ars presens dicitur, in qua'

Fol. 109. an anonymous prose work on arithmetic, beg. 'Numerorum alius digitus alius articulus'

Fol. 115. a short geometrical piece, beg. 'Scire debes quod circulus duas habet medietates'

Fol. 122. Johannes de Sacro bosco on the sphere, as in Ms. Digby 15, beg. 'Tractatum de sphera in 4 capitulis distinguimus'

Fol. 141. 'Incipit noua compilatio magistri Johannis de sacro bosco', beg. 'Compotus est sciencia considerans tempora', written apparently in 1235 (fol. 162), but with the date 'm. Christi bis cc quarto [sic] deno quater anno' in the metrical colophon (fol. 174)

Fol. 175. the Massa compoti of Alexander de Villa Dei, with prose prologue beg. imperfectly, for another copy of which see MS. Fairfax 27, fol. 32: beg. 'Aureus in Jano numerus'

Fol. 192. a fragment of Johannes de Sacro bosco on arithmetic, followed by the same author's 'cautele super algorismum', beg. 'In principio videndum est quid est algorismus', in a hand different from that of the preceding items and somewhat later

Fol. 1 has a late 15th-cent. table of contents and some erased inscriptions.

(fols. 187-91 are blank parchment)

Date

Written in the 1st half of the 15th century in England

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, binding, red leather on boards, 15th-cent. English work, with numerous diagrams

Physical extent

201 Leaves

Custodial history

Labelled '17'