PAL

Jordanus


Città del Vaticano, O, Cod. 1862

Century 12/13
Language Latin
Material Membr.
No. of columns 1 + 2 cols.
Printed catalogs John F. Daly, Charles J. Ermatinger, "Mathematics in the Codices Ottoboniani Latini", Manuscripta 9 (1965), 17-9
Source Daly, Ermatinger
Type of source cat.
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Author standard Adelard of Bath | Euclides
Title (standard) Elementa
Contents Proofs are given only up to Book VI, Proposition 12; Book XIV and Book XV are included. Following the end of the Elementa, on f. 19r, are two brief rules, one arithmetical and the other geometrical
Incipit Punctus est illud cui pars non est. Linea est longitudo sine latitudine, cuius extremitates quidem duo puncta sunt ...
Publ. descriptions M. Clagett, J. E. Murdoch, Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy; a Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta, II (1958), 151-2;
Item no. 1
Folio no. 1r-19r
Explicit ... corpus XII basium pentagonalium equalium laterum figuraliter, componere.
Colophon Explicit liber euclidis philosophi de arte geometrica
T & K TK 1152
Work 2Author standard Gerbert
Title (standard) Geometria
Contents (20r) De vocabulis et quantitate mensurarum ab antiquis inventarum; (21r) De planis figuris; (22r) De speciebus trianguli. De natura triangulorum; (22v) In figuris de appellationibus linearum. De pytagoricis ortogoniis, et eorum rectis diversis; (24v) De ortogoniis qui pytagoricis trannsformantur ortogoniis. De geometrica trigonum proportione; (25r) Item de aliis ortogoniis
Incipit In quattuor matheseos ordine disciplinarum tertium post arithmetice, musiceque tractatum ...
Printed copies Bubnov, Gerberti Opera Mathematica (Berlin, 1899), 46-97; Migne, PL. vol 139, col. 91-116
Item no. 2
Folio no. 19v-25r
Explicit ... sibi invicem laterum proportione germani
Math. drawings (25r) diagrams of ten triangles
T & K TK 714, 149
Work 3Title (ms.) De mensuris
Title (standard) Opusculum Mathematicum
Contents (25r) De generibus angulorum; (25v) De specie linearum et de circumferentibus
Incipit Mensure aguntur generibus tribus per longitudinem et latitudinem et crassitudinem ...
Item no. 3
Folio no. 25r-26r
Explicit ... atque utriusque producte in neutra parte concurrent.
T & K TK 871
Work 4Author standard Boethius
Title (standard) Geometria
Contents (26v) De mensura, de generibus linearum, de modis figurae, de quadrilateribus, de petitionibus quae sunt in geometria, de conceptionibus quae sunt in geometria; (28r) De circulis, de figuris geometricis; (28v) De angulis; (29r) De extremitate, de ratione abaci; (29v) De divisionibus; (30r) ... liber II geometrie ... De mensura et tribus dimensionibus; (30v) De podismis, de trigoniis, de hysopleuro; (31r) De ortogonio; (31v) De ortogonio circulo inscripto, de ambligonio, de oxigonio; (32r) De parte longiore, de rumbo, de dyagono adinveniendo; (32v) De multiangulis figuris, de exagono, de octogono, de decagono, de circulo; (33r) De spera, de minutiis
Incipit Quia vero mi patrici geometrum (sic) exercitatissime euclidis de artis geometrice figura obscure prolata te adortante exponenda ...
Publ. descriptions G. Friedlein, Boetii De Institutione Arithmetica (Leipzig, 1867), 372
Item no. 4
Folio no. 26v-33v
Explicit ... in puncto autem duo minuta et dimidium, et in minuto IIII momenta esse asseruerunt.
Additional copies Codex Vaticanus Barberinianus latinus 92, 3r-16v
T & K TK 1234
Additional information The epilogue of Vat. Barb. lat. 92 appears as a marginal addition in cod. Ottob. lat. 1862
Work 5Title (standard) Minutiarum de karacteribus
Incipit Quicumque queris minutiarum cognoscere caracteres hic figuras nominaque subscripta invenies ...
Item no. 5
Folio no. 34r-36v
Explicit ... distinctionem inter minutias et uncias fecisse cum et untie et minutie possint vocari.
Work 6Author standard Boethius | Euclides
Title (standard) Elementa
Incipit Geometria est disciplina magnitudinis immobilis, formarumque descriptio contemplativa ...
Publ. descriptions Clagett and Murdoch, Manuscripta, II (1958), 151
Additional remarks Regarded as the five book version by Boethius
Item no. 6
Folio no. 37r-52r
Explicit ... totidemque angulorum ex tribus circumferentibus et duabus rectis.
Colophon Explicit Liber Podismus Boetii.
T & K TK 584
Work 7Title (standard) Definitions or formulas
Incipit Sex habet sex tantum (?) unum ...
Incipit 2 Cubitus constat sex palmis digitis quatuor ...
Additional remarks Two brief entries, each five lines long, at the top of a column
Item no. 7
Folio no. 52r
Work 8Author (ms.) Acbrannus
Author standard Acbrhannus
Title (standard) Versus de Ludo Tabularum Secundum Numerum
Incipit Ludis qui plano tabulis de stipite sectis ...
Incipit 2 Primo tres impone loco totidemque secundo ...
Item no. 8
Folio no. 52r-52v
Explicit ... Acbranni lector menteque voceque valet.
T & K TK 833, 1113