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Jordanus

Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 271

Old shelfmarks 504
Century 13
Material Membr.
Height × width 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
No. of leaves 178
Gatherings (gap) 1-9^12(wants 12) 10^12(wants 1-3) 11-5^12 16^2.
Cover Old binding, skin over boards, clasps gone. Chain-mark middle top of first cover.
No. of columns 2 cols.
Lineation 48 lines
Initials etc. The initial to each tract throughout the volume is of excellent work.
Marginal annotations Very well written.
Printed catalogs C.M.A. 1024; James 1 | James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College II (1908) 572-4.
Source Folkerts | James, Gonville & Caius College II (1908)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Work 2Title (ms.) De radicum extractione (end of a tract)
Contents On square and cube roots.
Printed catalogs Singer, D.W., Hand-list of scientific mss. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 94; cf. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9) 185-99.
Folio no. 1-2
Explicit et hec de radicum extractione sufficiant tam in numeris quadratis quam cubicis.
Work 3Title (ms.) Ars computandi
Incipit Si contingat quod compotum iactare debes
Folio no. 2
Explicit adhuc uacuo remanente.
Work 4Author standard Alexander de Villa Dei
Title (ms.) On arithmetic (in verse)
Incipit Post hiis preponens digitum de more priori.
Additional remarks In a very good small hand.
Folio no. 1, 3
Explicit Is (?) dextris digitis seruando super documentum.
Colophon Expl. Algorismus per dei graciam.
Additional texts Another set of verses follows up to 6a on Compotus, De formacione aurei numeri etc. ... Aureus in iano numerus clauesque nouantur.
Work 5Author (ms.) Johannes de Sacrobosco
Author standard Johannes de Sacrobosco
Title (ms.) Compoti noua compilacio
Incipit Compotus est scientia considerans tempora
Folio no. 2
Rubric Johannis de Sacrobosco inc. compoti noua compilacio
Explicit quod nos hinc fructificemus. finito libro etc.
Additional texts (14b) Versus de festis scanctorum et mobilius (4). Sic tibi festa patent sanctorum limite recto.
Work 6Author (ms.) Alfraganus
Author standard Alfraganus
Title (ms.) De annis Arabum
Incipit Differentia prima consistir in annis arabum
Folio no. 14b
Explicit patefecimus de eclipsi solis et lune quod sufficiat. finito libro etc.
Work 7Author standard Euclides
Title (ms.) Principia (xv bks.)
Incipit Punctus est cuius pars non est
Additional remarks The text is in a larger hand, 32 lines to a column. The proofs throughout appear to me to be very much shortened.
Folio no. 30b-86a
Explicit Equalium laterum figuraliter componere.
Colophon Expl. liber euclidis philosophi de arte geometria continens cccc.lxv^a proposita et propositiones et xi porismata preter anxiomata singulis libris premissa proposita qui infinitiuis propositiones indicatiuus explicans (sic).
Additional texts There is a gloss more closely written which begins (after the axioms), Nota quod multas communes scientias pretermisit euclides.
Math. drawings The figures are drawn very neatly in red in the margin.
Work 8Author standard Euclides
Title (ms.) De uisu
Incipit Ponatur lineas rectas ab oculo eductas
Folio no. 86b
Explicit contingentia incircularibus.
Colophon Expl. liber de uisu.
Work 9Author standard Euclides
Title (ms.) De speculis
Contents The last proposition is: Nulle due linee tantum spacium ambiunt quam si sese perpendiculariter contingant.
Incipit Uicum rectum esse cuius terminos recte continuant
Folio no. 93b
Work 10Title (ms.) Liber de ponderibus
Incipit Omnis ponderosi motum esse ad medium
Facsimiles Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 2 (1959) 25.
MF copies Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A Checklist of Microfilm Reproductions, Isis 44 (1953) 378. Clagett, M., Check List of Microfilm Reproductions in the History of Late Medieval Physics, Progress of Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the US and Canada, Bulletin 21 (1951) 49.
Folio no. 97b
Rubric Inc. liber de ponderibus
Explicit et hic erit numerus minoris porcionis. quod oportebat ostendere
Colophon Expl. lib. de ponderibus.
Work 11Title (ms.) Liber de Angulis
Incipit Anguli quadripartita natura quadripartitam exigit inquisicionem
Additional remarks After 107 four leaves are cut out.
Folio no. 101 (ends probably on 108b)
Explicit sumatur pars tercia et habetur propositum.
Math. drawings With figures in red in the margin.
T & K TK 96
Work 12Author (ms.) Archimenides
Author standard Archimenides
Title (ms.) De quadratura circuli
Incipit Cuilibet recte linee aliquam curuam esse equalem
Printed copies Clagett, M., Archimedes in the Middle Ages I (1964) 63-77; nach 144 Teilabb. 108v).
Facsimiles Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 2 (1958) 146.
MF copies Clagett, M., Check List of Microfilm Reproductions in the History of Late Medieval Physics, Progress of Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the US and Canada, Bulletin 21 (1951) 48. Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A Checklist of Microfilm Reproductions, Isis 44 (1953) 374.
Folio no. 108b
Rubric Liber archimenides de quadratura circuli
Explicit ad quadratum ea est. xi. ad xiiii.
T & K TK 275
Work 13Author (ms.) Jordanus
Author standard Jordanus
Title (ms.) Liber de plana spera
Incipit Spera in quolibet polorum
Printed catalogs Glorieux, P., La faculté des arts et ses maitres au XIIIe siècle (1971) 243.
Folio no. 109b
Rubric Inc. liber Jordani de plana spera
Explicit erit situs illius quod proponebatur.
Colophon Expl. demonstratio Jordani de forma spere in plano.
Math. drawings With figures.
T & K TK 1524
Work 14Author (ms.) Joh. de Sacro Bosco
Author standard Johannes de Sacrobosco
Title (ms.) De Sphaera
Incipit Tractatum de spera (in) quatuor capitula
Folio no. 126
Explicit machina mundana dissoluitur.