PAL

Jordanus


Cambridge, Peterhouse College, 184

Old shelfmarks 1.8.8*
Short title Tabulae. Aegidius in Aristotelem, etc.
Century 15
Previous owners On the fly-leaves at the end are scribbles (s. 15, 16). Iste liber attinet Collegi sancti petri. Anglia me ienuit tamen anglica lingua uetatur. To his honorable and Ryght Worshipfull M. Master Jhon Lownde. By your humble sonne and servant Jhon Chapman. Anglica terra sacra sanctorum germine claret ... et angelica celique phalanx modo paret. Anglia cum plangit per sanctos concito pangit. Et consolantur Angli mox auxiliantur.
Material Membr.
Height × width 11 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.
No. of leaves 226
Gatherings a-f^12 g^10 h-v^12
Binding leaves At the beginning and end are leaves of a s. 14 collection of papal and episcopal rescripts to Cluniacs (?) in double columns. In one is mention of the "prior et conuentus de butele" (Butley in Suffolk), and of the "priorissa et moniales de Campesse" (Campsey Ash).
No. of columns 2 cols.
Lineation 46 lines
Printed catalogs James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1899) 214-6. | O.R. 166; James 38.
Source Folkerts | James (1899)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Work 2Title (ms.) Algorismus
Incipit Liber iste quem pre manibus habemus diuiditur in 2 partes
Folio no. 189b
Prolog (prologue in verse) 1. Hec algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua / Talibus indormis fruimur bis quinque figuris. 33. A leua dupla diuide multiplica.
Explicit resultant due figure ut contingit ex (blank space of about 14 lines).
Work 3Author (ms.) Thomas de Nouo mercato
Author standard Thomas of Newmarket
Title (ms.) Compotus ecclesiasticus cum exposicione
Incipit Omnium philosophum discretissimi intimique perpetue ueritatis amici.
Additional remarks Tanner ascribes this to Thomas of Newmarket. The sections are alternately in verse and prose. It is a comment on the Algorismus of Dionysius Abbas. This Thomas of Newmarket has been wrongly identified with T. Weeks, Bp of Carlisle.
Rubric Incipit compotus ecclesiasticus cum exposicione M. Thome de Nouo mercato magistri in artibus Cantabr.
Explicit et hic finitur exposicio totius libri autoris, etc.
Colophon Expl. conpotus dionisii abbatis cum exposicione M. Thome de Nouo Mercato magistri in artibus Cantebr.
Additional copies Another copy is in MS. Digby 81.
Work 4Author standard Thomas of Newmarket
Title (ms.) Tractatus de Spera
Incipit Tractatum de spera quatuor capitibus distinguimus
Additional remarks Tanner calls it de sphaera Sacrobosci.
Folio no. 218
Explicit in eadem hora dixisse aut deus nunc patitur aut mundum (sic) machina dissoluitur.
Work 5Author standard Thomas of Newmarket
Title (ms.) De quadrante
Incipit Quadrantis descriptionem ac eius officium
Folio no. 223b-5a
Explicit ad totam profunditatem.
T & K TK 508 & 1156