John Ashendon — 14th century, late; English
MS. Savile 25
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Description
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Title
John Ashendon — 14th century, late; English
Alfraganus — 13th century; English
Profatius Judaeus, Robert Grosseteste — 14th century, middle; English
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 25
Date
14th century, late
13th century
14th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
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Title
Three Latin and English manuscripts
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 25
Summary
Fol. 1. The second book of the Summa judicialis of John Eastwood of Ashindon, alias John Eshenden, fellow of Merton college, composed in 1348 in Oxford, of which MS. Bodl. 369 is another copy, with colophon on fol. 163 as in MS. Bodl. 714. beg. 'Incipit secundus liber Ayshedene. ... Sicut dicit Aristoteles 2° Ethicorum et capitulo 8°' (fol. 1 olim 162).
Fol. 164. 'Alfraganus de motuum celestium radicibus', being the work of Al-farganus as in MS. Savile 16, fol. 40, but here with contemporary marginalia. beg. 'Differencia prima in annis Arabum'.
Fol. 176. The canons and astronomical tables, made at Montpellier in 1300, of Profacius Judaeus of Marseilles, for whom see Hist. Litt. de la France, tom. 27, p. 599. beg. 'In nomine domini nostri Jhesu scito quod annus Latinorum siue Christianorum'. The canons are followed by:
'Doctrina canonum', beg. 'Quando vis scire loca' (fol. 181v)
At fol. 198 are added two paper leaves with tables for use at Northampton (15th cent.)
Fol. 200. Grossetète 'de impressionibus aeris', being cod. S. in Dr Ludwig Baur's edition of Die philosophischen Werke des Robert Grosseteste (Münster, 1912). beg. 'Ad prognoscendam diuersam dispositionem aeris futuram'
'Tabula cursus draconis ad menses et dies' (fol. 222) and 'motus planetarum in horis secundum Arzachalem'
Date
Made up of three MSS. written in the late 14th, the 13th cent., and about 1340, in English
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment and paper
Physical extent
204 Leaves
Custodial history
A 15th-cent. table of contents on fol. 204 concludes with 'liber de arte notoria secundum Apolonium', noted as missing by a 17th-cent. hand, and not now known to exist. Fol. i is part of a grant of confraternity to Galfridus Randolf and Alice [? his wife] made in a Franciscan provincial chapter in 1375.
Labelled '25'
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Collection contents
Three Latin and English manuscripts
