Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 169 Scribe(s) Robert Emylton (a Durham scribe). Short title Ps.-Boethius etc. Contents There is also a partial list of contents, most of it in Emylton's hand. Century 15 Previous owners Formerly Phillipps MS. 3547. Sold at Sotheby's, March 1895, no. 92. It may very well have been in the Library of Durham Priory, but I cannot find it in the old catalogues. On the flyleaf IIb is P. II and on 1, P. I. Material Membr. Height × width 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. No. of leaves 283 + 3 Gatherings 3 flyleaves, 1-18^12(wants 4) 19-22^12 23(two) 24^12 25^6. 2 fo. fimbriis. Cover White skin over boards, clasps. Type of writing A peculiar small hand. Lineation 51 lines Printed catalogs James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwillianm Museum (1912) 323-7. Other notes Other books known to me written by Robert Emylton are York Cathedral Library XVI. i. 1, which belonged to a Durham monk, and Jesus Coll. Cambr. 70 (in my Catalogue). Sidney Sussex no. 56 may be of the same family; it was actually in Durham Library. Source Folkerts | James, Fitzwilliam Museum (1912) Type of source cat. | pvt. notes Source’s source insp. Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae: Work 2Author (ms.) Campanus Author standard Campanus Title (ms.) Practica geometrie Incipit Geometrie due sunt species partes principales Printed catalogs Singer, D.W., Hand-list of scientific mss. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 75; cf. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9) 185-99. Folio no. 256b | 256v-60r Explicit aliter se habencia similia corpora. Colophon Expl. pract. geom. sec. mag. Campanum Nouariensem. D. g. quod R. E. Math. drawings With very neat marginal figures. Additional information Britt, F.N.L., A critical edition of Tractatus quadrantis (1972) x, 312. Work 3Title (ms.) De praxi geometrorum Incipit Adhuc autem antequam in cauillacionibus arithmeticorum Printed catalogs Singer, D.W., Hand-list of scientific mss. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 91; cf. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9) 185-99. Folio no. 260 | 260r-2v Explicit sed mirabili complexu congaudent. Colophon Expl. tract. quidam breuis et utilis de practica geometrie. D. g. quod R. E. T & K TK 67
