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Jordanus

New York, The Library of George A. Plimpton, Columbia University, 175

Scribe(s) Johannes Erfordiensis, Magister
Century 15
Precise date 1431 | 1476
Place of origin Germany
Language Latin
Previous owners Belonged since an early date to the Monastary of S. Mattheus Apostolus at Trèves. In the Georg Loss collection at Frankfurt | Belonged since an early date to the Monasterium S. Mathiae Apostoli (at Trèves), with their circular stamp on the binding; Georg Kloss coll., at Frankfurt (not traced in his sale, London, 1835)
Material Chart.
Height × width 210 x 150 | 215 x 145
No. of leaves 180
Gatherings A^14 B^14 C^12 D^12 E^12 F^8 G^19 H^14 I^12 K^10 L^16 M^10 N^14 O^10 P^14(-1)
Cover Original brown leather, blind stamped, over wooden boards. The side panels contain a variety a symbolic designs, much rubbed through use. | Original wooden boards and stamped leather, lined with 2 ff. (12th c.) of the life of S. Theonestus
Condition (53) missing
Type of writing German 15th c. cursive Gothic script, replete with abbreviations. The text is in a large form of the Gothic littera quadrata.
No. of columns 2 cols., also text within commentary
Width of columns Lines variable; ruled; script space (1r): 180 x 110 mm.
Initials etc. (1r): large initial C lying obversely with surrounding text and an ornamental ground colored in red; other decorative initials, uncolored, commmence some of the chapters
Exlibris Circular stamp of the Monasterium S. Mathiae Apostoli at Trèves
Printed catalogs De Ricci, Seymour/ Wilson, W.J.: Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in The United States and Canada, II (New York 1937), 1784-1785 | Ives, S.A.: Corrigenda and Addenda to the Descriptions of the Plimpton Mss. as recorded in the Ricci Census, in: Speculum, XVII (1942), 41
Publ. descriptions History of Mathematics II, 667, facs. | Smith, D.E.: Rara arithmetica (1908), 449-450 and 470-473, facs.
Facsimiles History of Mathematics II, 667, facs. | Smith, D.E.: Rara arithmetica (1908), 449-450 and 470-473, facs.
Source Columbia University Library, N.N. | De Ricci/Wilson (1937) | Ives (1942)
Type of source art. | cat. | ts. pvt. notes
Work 1Author standard Johannes Erfordiensis
Title (standard) Computus chyrometralis | Computus cyrometralis
Incipit (2r) (C)ognicia veritatis de pausis temporum circa motum solis et lune orbium et aliarum planetarum (...)
Folio no. 1r-27r
Prolog CIrca initium conputi cirometralis Et cetera Turpe est ignorantur quod omnibus contingit, scitur propositio preassupta tantum pretendit quod valde abhomiabile est
Explicit Pro binis semper gradus horis hinc capiatur Si fuerit ante convenit si post prius addas (N)Ota si vis scire motum solis scias ita faciendis (...)
Additional texts (27v) Note on the Cisioianus
Glosses etc. Cum glossa
Blank leaves 28r-v
Work 2Author standard Jacobus Obernheym | Jacobus Sobernheym
Title (standard) Computus Norembergensis
Precise date 1431
Folio no. 29r-65r | 29r-66r
Work 3Title (standard) Tabulae astronomicae | Various astronomical notes
Contents Include a brief computus, table of the movable feasts, a Calendarium, various astrological data, the pseudo-Aristotelian tract entitled: Liber de regimine principum, adressed to Alexander (75v-76r), and tables for determining the golden numbers
Precise date 1476
Subject 1 Astronomie | Computus
Folio no. 65v-82r | 66v-76r
Tables Table of the movable feasts, tables for determining the golden numbers | Tabulae astronomicae variae de aureo numero, circule solari, littera dominicali, signis zodiacalibus etc., una cum Kalendario
Work 4Author standard Aristoteles
Title (standard) Secretum secretorum
Folio no. 76v-77r
Blank leaves 77v
Work 5Title (standard) Notae et tabulae astronomicae et astrologicae
Subject 1 Astrologie | Astronomie
Folio no. 78r-83r
Tables Tabulae astronomicae et astrologicae
Work 6Title (standard) Movements of the stars and planets
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 83r-133r
Tables Alphonsine tables, other astronomical tables
Work 7Title (standard) Theorica planetarum
Subject 1 Astrologie | Astronomie
Folio no. 83r-93v | 84r-91r
Additional texts (91r-93r) Excerpta astronomica et astrologica varia
Work 8Title (standard) Compositio novarum theoricarum cum rectilineis
Folio no. 94r-96 | 94r-v
Additional texts (95r-96v) De minutiis proportionalibus
Work 9Author standard Alfonsus X
Title (standard) Alphonsine canons and tables | Tabulae Alfonsinae
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 97r-124 | 97r-129v
Additional texts Cum additionibus
Tables (97r-124r) Tabulae Alfonsinae | Alphonsine tables
Work 10Title (standard) Tabulae argumenti solis et lunae, eclipsis etc.
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 125r-130v
Tables Tabulae argumenti solis et lunae, eclipsis etc.
Work 11Title (standard) De horologiis | De horologiis in truncis
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 130r-132r | 131r-133r
Work 12Title (standard) Other astronomical tables
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 132v-133v
Tables Other astronomical tables
Work 13Title (standard) De tempore, compositio quadrantis, compositio astrolabii plani
Folio no. 134r-180r
Work 14Title (standard) Tabulae motuum solis et lunae, coniunctionum et oppositionum et argumentorum
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 133v-134r
Tables Tabulae motuum solis et lunae, coniunctionum et oppositionum et argumentorum
Work 15Title (standard) Radices ad eram Christi ex Alfonso
Folio no. 134v
Tables Radices ad eram Christi ex Alfonso
Work 16Title (standard) Canones tabularum Alfoncii
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 135r-149r
Work 17Title (standard) Canon eclipsis lunae
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 149v-152r
Work 18Title (standard) Notae latitudinibus planetarum etc.
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 152v-153r
Work 19Title (standard) Tabulae stellarum
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 153v-154r
Tables Tabulae stellarum
Work 20Title (standard) Tabulae medii motus planetarum, radicum mediorum, argumentorum etc.
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 154v-158v
Tables Tabulae medii motus planetarum, radicum mediorum, argumentorum etc.
Work 21Author standard Beldomandi
Title (standard) Compositio astrolabii plani
Subject 1 Astronomie
Folio no. 159r-178v
Work 22Title (standard) Notae astrologicae variae
Subject 1 Astrologie
Folio no. 178v-179v
Work 23Title (standard) Tractatus de quadrante
Folio no. 180r-181r
Tables Cum tabulis