New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.925 Century 11 Precise date 1000-1050 | two calendrical tables begin with the date 1007; other texts indicate a slightly later date, probably between 1018-1032 Method of Dating i Place of origin Italy (North of Italy; in the vicinity of Pavia (?) Language Latin Previous owners The ms. may well have remained in Northern Italy during the following centuries, for a later computistical treatise written by Bene of Lucca was added to the end of the volume in the late thirteenth century, and still later the book was part of the well-known collection of the Casa Minutoli Tegrimi in Lucca, which had been founded in the fifteenth century by the humanist Niccolò Tegrimi. Although the Tegrimi collection was sold about 1901, our manuscript was not included in the sale; it is not clear how or when it left the collection, nor is its subsequent history known. No. of leaves 74 Decorations The various constellations and comets in the "De cursu stellarum ratio" are illustrated with twenty-one drawings, which are very much like those in the Bamberg ms. A number of other texts in the computus have pictures or diagrams. The most fully illustrated is the text of the Venerable Bede's De computo vel loquela digitorum, on reckoning or speaking with the fingers. Thirty-six drawings of hands and half-length or full-length figures show vividly the proper hand and arm positions with which to designate certain key numbers from one to one million. Of less artistic value, but perhaps equal historical interest, are a number of magical circles or Pythagorean spheres employed in foretelling the future, particularly one's prospects for good or evil, life or death. Printed catalogs Adams, F.B., Jr.: Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1967 und 1968 (New York 1969), 13-15 Source Adams (1969) | Folkerts (1.9.78) Type of source art. | ts. pvt. notes Work 1Title (standard) Computus Subject 1 Computus Folio no. 1r-37r Additional texts Among the texts: "De cursu stellarum ratio" (Gregory of Tours, substantially complete) Work 2Additional names Beda Title (standard) De computo vel loquela digitorum Contents Fingerrechnung nach Beda und Zahlwert des Alphabets; losgelöste Abschnitte Incipit Numerus computus que Latine dicitur. hebraice et chaldaice uagedaber Incipit 2 De temporum ratione domine iuvante dicturi Subject 1 Computus Folio no. 37v-39v Work 3Title (standard) Annalistisch-chronologische Notizen und weitere komputistische Texte Subject 1 Computus Folio no. 40r-
