Composite manuscript: prognostication, astronomy, medicine, etc., in Latin, Middle English and French; England (?), 13th-15th centuries

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Composite manuscript: prognostication, astronomy, medicine, etc., in Latin, Middle English and French; England (?), 13th-15th centuries

Shelfmark

MS. Ashmole 342

Date

13th century, end

15th century

14th century

14th century, beginning

15th century; additions, early 16th century

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part A (fols. 1-53)

1. (fols. 1–6b) Via ad Terram Sanctam

2. (fols. 8–22v) Bernardus Silvestris (?) Experimentarius

a. (fols. 23–5v) Prognostication by the moon (lunary)

b. (fol. 25v) Phlebotomy

c. (fol. 25v) Prognostication by the moon (lunary)

d. (fols. 28, 29) Prognostication according to the day on which Christmas and New Year fall

5. (fols. 29v) Incipit: In septem stabis. minus yma petens numerabis | Post septem sursum numerando perfice cursum. | Sicque novem tractus numerus dat quod petit actus.

The tracts on ff. 30-49, were written in the scholastic text hand, early in the XIVth century.

1. (fols. 30–4) Sortes Albedaci

2. (fols.34v–6 ) Sortes Apostolorum

3. (fols. 38–40v) Liber Amblaudii et Hermetis

4. (fols. 40v–6) Liber Abdalaben Zeleman de spatula

The 4 leaves containing these 7 articles, are very closely written in a small hand resembling records of the time of Edw. I:

1. (fols. 50–2) Compotus manualis

2. (fol. 52) Cisiojanus (distich)

3. (fols. 52v–53) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer

4. (fol. 53v) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer

5. (fol. 53v) Verses on the complexions

6. (fol. 53v) Verses

7. (fol. 53v) Incipit: Quinque sunt digiti Diaboli primus est pudor confessionis

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part B (fols. 54-68)

Astronomical tables

(fol. 54) Rubric: Tabula equationis argumenti lune

(fol. 54v–5b) Rubric: Tabula conjunccionum mediarum in annis expansis

(fol. 56) Rubric: Tabula conjunccionum mediarum in mensibus Christi

(fol. 56) Rubric: Tabula oppositionum mediarum in mensibus Christi

(fol. 56v–9) Table for lunar motion for a 15 day period

(fol. 59v–61) Rubric: Figura solis, figura lune, figura draconis, figura. 3. superiorum planetarum et veneris, figura retrogradacionis, figura mercurii

(fol. 59v) Incipit: Si planete duo signo junguntur in uno

(fol. 61v–3) Rubric: Tabula equacionis domorum in latitudine. 51. graduum et 40. minutorum

(fol. 64) Rubric: Tabula lune in annis expansis et collectis

(fol. 64v) Rubric: Tabula equacionis lune

(fol. 65–6v) Rubric: Tabula lune in mensibus

(fol. 67–8v) Rubric: 2a. tabula solis

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part C (fols. 69-94)

1. (fol. 85) Rubric: Ista continentur in hoc volumine

2. (fol. 85v) On gentian

3. (fols. 85v–6) Rubric: Versus de valore Agnus dei

4. (fol. 86v) Glossary

5. (fol. 86v) Incipit: Est arbor vitis

6. (fol. 87) Incipit: Minus scio quod per confessionem scio

7. (fol. 87v–8 ) Rubric: Fr. Adam de Lacu

8. (fol. 88v–90)

Prognostication by thunder (in verse)

Incipit: Est aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo | Libraque, scorpio, architenens, caper, urnaque pisses.

9. (fol. 90v) On tithes

10. (fol. 90v) Bernard of Clairvaux De praecepto et dispensatione (extract: c. 12)

Extracts from monastic rules (on accidents at the Mass, obedience, etc.)

11. (fol. 91) Incipit: Cum de corpore vel sanguine Domini tanta negligencia aliquo casu accidit ut cadat deorsum

12. (fol. 91v) Incipit: Si aperta quod absit negligencia de corpore Domini

13. (fol. 92) Incipit: Si forte alicui fratri contigerit

14. (fol. 92v) Incipit: Nota hec sunt que Monachus debet prelato suo

15. (fol. 92v) Note on the interpretation of scripture

16. (fol. 70) Rules for converting Christian to Islamic calendar

Astronomical tables with rule

17. (fol. 70) Incipit: Quando vis scire locum solis subtrahe quaternarium ab annis Christi quociens poteris

18. (fols. 70v–4) Astronomical tables

19. (fol. 74v–7) Qualities of the signs of the Zodiac

20. (fol. 77) Rules for converting Christian to Islamic calendar

21. (fol. 77v) Rules for converting Christian to Islamic calendar

22. (fol. 78–81v) Campanus of Novara De quadrante

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part D (fols. 95-114)

1. (fols. 101v–112) Ecclesiastical and astronomical calendar.

Astronomy and astrology:

2. (f. 112v) Note on lunar cycles ending between 1463 and 1519, suggesting that the cycle wherein this calendar was written, began in 1444, and ended in 1462.

3. (f. 113) Signs of the Zodiac, their months and qualities.

4. (f. 113v) Rubric: Tabula planetarum ad sciendum quis planeta regnat qualibet hora

5. (f. 114) Rubric: Tabula lune ad sciendum ejus signum omni die. et in quo gradu illius signi

(fols. 95v–6b) A text on the qualities of the twelve signs

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part E (fols. 115-137)

1. (fols. 115–126v) Text on the four humours

2. (fols. 126v–131) Lunary: of the qualities and effects of the moon’s 28 mansions

3. (fol. 131v–3–4)

Cautiones

Bloodletting (extract from Secreta Secretorum (?))

4. (fol. 134) Prognostication according to thunder

5. (fol. 134v–5) On the four seasons

6. (fol. 135) Bloodletting

7. (fol. 136) Bloodletting

8. (fol. 136) Bloodletting

9. (fol. 136v) Perilous Mondays

10. (fol. 136v) Incipit: The best dayes of every monethe to be gyne any gode werke, etc.

11. (fol. 137) Cautiones

12. (fol. 137) Distichs on the Zodiac and the planets

13. (fol. 137) On the movement of the moon

MS. Ashmole 342 – Part F

1. (fol. 138–141d) Johannes de Pulchro Rivo Compotus

2. (fol. 141v–2) Cisiojanus with gloss

3. (fol. 143–7v) Johannes de Sacro Bosco Algorismus

4. (fol. 147bc) Text on solstices

5. (fol. 147d) Alexander de Villa Dei Carmen de Algorismus

6. (fol. 149–151a) Compotus metrificatus

7. (fol. 151–2) Poem on compotus

8. (fol. 152–3) Compotus: explicatio diversarum tabularum ecclesiasticarum, inter quas Garlandi et Dionysii

9. (fol. 153v) Computistical table

10. (fol. 153v) Dominion of the signs of the Zodiac in the human body

Provenance

Elias Ashmole, 1617–1692.

Bequeathed by him to the Ashmolean Museum.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.

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