Cleomedes, Johannes Philoponus, Theon Alexandrinus — 14th century – 16th century

Title

Cleomedes, Johannes Philoponus, Theon Alexandrinus — 14th century – 16th century

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 52

Date

14th century – 16th century

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Title

Five Greek manuscripts

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 52

Summary

Fol. 1. Cleomedis de motu circulari corporum caelestium, defective at the beginning. It begins at p. 619 of Ziegler's text and is written in seven hands ranging in date from the 14th to the 16th cent., with marginalia of the 15th and 16th centt.

Fol. 67. 'Ιωάννου 'Aλεξανδρεως (sscr. το͡υ Φιλοπόνου) περί τής το͡υ ̕αστρολάβου χρήσεως, as published from Paris MSS. in Rheinisches Museum, vi (1839), 129. Written in five hands of the late 14th to the early 16th cent.

The blank pages between this and the next piece have been used by various writers to enter miscellaneous short excerpts from Aristotle (περί ζώων ίστορίας), Johannes Philoponus (on the use of the astrolabe), etc.

Fol. 83. Θέωνος 'Aλεξανδρέως εις τούς προχείρους κανόνας τ͡ης ̕αστρονομίας παράδοσις, published by Halma, Œuvres de Ptolémée, vol. vi.

Written in three hands between the early 15th and 16th cent., followed by a few pages of extracts on related or similar subjects.

Fol. 117. List of chapter headings of a theological work. Written in the late 16th cent.

Fol. 119. A single folio from a 14th-cent. MS., containing references to courtship and marriage and mentioning the Emperor Leo.

Date

Written in many hands in the 14th and subsequent centuries (see below)

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

132 Leaves

Custodial history

Labelled '65'