St Florian, Stiftsbibliothek, XI.619

s. XV^med, most of the MS was copied in 1446 and 1447 (see f. 19v: ‘1447’; 168v: ‘Anno 1446’; 186r: ‘1447’, 203rb: ‘Anno 1447’; computus table 1446-1492 f. 29v-30r; table of eclipses 1448-1462 f. 204v), with numerous additions in the same hand, two of which are dated 1453 (f. 83r) and 1461 (f. 85r). Or.: probably Regensburg, mentioned several times, including f. 81r, 84r, 86v and 186r. Prov.: mention of a ‘Fr<ater> Sebastianus Holkodt’, inner back cover; monastery St Florian.

Paper, 240 f., a single hand.

Computus, astronomy, mathematics and astrology. Practitioner’s handbook made of texts, excerpts and notes: notes of astronomy and computus (1r-2r); John of Gmunden, Kalendarium 1439-1514 (2v-19v); notes of computus (20r-20v); astronomical tables for Reichebach 1433 with canons ‘Ad inveniendum medium motum Solis vel alterius planete…’ (21r-28v); Petrus de Rosenheim, Computus dictus radicalis (29r-33v); Sacrobosco, De sphera (34r-60r), with astronomical diagrams and notes (61v-62v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (63r-78v); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (78v-81r); ‘Demonstratio bona. Si in aliquot puncto quod tamen distat a circumferentia alicuius circuli…’ (81v-82r); Ptolemaica (82r); astronomical notes ‘Item pro inveniendo augmentum longioris diei…’ (82v-83r); ‘Magnus Nemo. Vir quidam erat in oriente nomine Nemo…’ (83v-84r); notes and tables of computus (84v-86r); historical notes about Regensburg (86v); John of Ligneres, Algorismus de minutiis (87r-94r); arithmetical notes and enigmas, partly in German (94r-117v); Liber theoreumacie (118r-132r); notes of arithmetic and geometry (132r-134r); Ptolemaica (135ra-139va); ‘Hec sunt longitudines civitatum hic nominatarum ab occidente…’ (139vb); geographical coordinates of cities (140r-140v); Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, De magnete (141ra-144ra); notes on celestial distances (144rb); notes on the biblical books (144v-146v); ‘Mors. Hoc tibi sit menti carnem superare volenti…’ (146r-146v); ’12 signa in celo. Virgo habet stellam in capite…’ (147r); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (147v-148v); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, excerpts (148v-150r); ‘De festivitatibus. Legales festivitates erant septem…’ (150v-152r); Alcabitius, Introductorius (152r-168v); astronomical notes (168v-169r); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. Gerard of Cremona (169va-186r); table: ‘Ad Ratisponam latitude 49 graduum pro quadrante’ (186r); astrological notes ‘Item Saturnus superior planetarum frigidus est et siccus…’ (186v); John of Gmunden, Compositio quadrantis novi seu magni cum eius practica (187ra-200ra); John of Gmunden, Tractatus de compositione chilindri (200rb-203rb), with tables (203v) ; notes on eclipses (204r); table of eclipses 1448-1462 (204v); ‘12 questiones de pixide’, in German (205r); astrology ‘Pro flegbothomia (!) facienda. In Cancro valet pro iuvenili…’ (205v-206r); Fridericus Amann of Regensburg, Algorismus Ratisbonensis (206v-225v); notes of arithmetic in German and computus table 1493-1506 (226r); geometry ‘Quoniam circa geometriam multi propter raritatem et obscuritatem…’ (226v-230r); note in German (230v); ‘De mensurationibus rerum inferiorum et primo de mensuratione rerum altitudinum. Si vis ergo scire altitudinem alicuius rei…’ (231r-234r); ‘Item dimensione cum quadrante…’ (234v-235r); onomancy ‘De morte duorum in matrimonio. Sume nomen baptismatis utriusque sienti in alfabeto…’ (235v); astrological text on the planets in German (235v-236r); ‘Gloriosus Deus qui in principio cuncta creavit ex nihilo solo verbo…’ (236v-238v); alphabetical list of food products and cooking utensils (239r); ‘Pro expeditione specierum algorismi de integris per denarios proiectiles…’ (239v-240r); ‘Primum clima dicitur Mathoal…’ (240v). Blank: 134v.

Lit. A. Czerny, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Florian, Linz, 1871, 211-212.