PAL

Jordanus


Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 70

Old shelfmarks I.3.18
Scribe(s) (2) Dunstaplus conscripsit hunc librum.
Short title Astronomica etc.
Century 15
Subject 1 Astrology
Previous owners 1667. Ex dono Tho. Leigh S. Theol. Bacc. Coll. Emman. nuper Socii. On the flyleaf: Master harssedecon (Archdeacon: xv).
Material Chart.
Height × width 8 x 5 3/4 in.
No. of leaves 150 + 2 | 159
Gatherings 1 flyleaf. 1^8(wants 1)-19^8(wants 5): 1 flyleaf.
Lineation 45 lines (mostly)
Decorations With some good drawings.
Marginal annotations Closely written. | Nota quod nomina trium regum sunt hec ut scribit magister in historia scolastica. Hebraice Appelius Amerus Damascus. Grece Galgalat Malgaleb Serachin. Latine Jaspar Balthesar Melchior. | Note that John Baptist was born anno mundi 5198 etc. Astronomical note.
Printed catalogs C.M.A. 39 | James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1904) 62-6.
Source Folkerts (17.2.83) | James, Emmanuel College (1904)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Work 2Title (ms.) Two astronomical notes
Folio no. 135b
Work 3Title (ms.) Tractatus de modo componendi almanach
Incipit In composicione almanach sic procede
Folio no. 136
Rubric Inc. tract. de modo componendi almanach.
Work 4Title (ms.) Pondera vel mensure in medicina
Printed catalogs Singer, D.W., Hand-list of scientific mss. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century; cf. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9) 185-99.
Folio no. 157v
Rubric Pondera vel mensure que in arte medicinali reperiuntur ad ponderandum omnes species