PAL

Jordanus


Cambridge, University Library, Kk. I. 1

Century 13 (chiefly)
Material Membr.
Format f (small)
No. of leaves 248
No. of columns 2 cols. (most of the vol.)
Decorations With many geometrical figures.
Marginal annotations Very carefully written.
Printed catalogs Hardwick & Luard, H.R., Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge III (1858) 547-50 # 1935.
Source Folkerts | Hardwick & Luard III (1858)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) A Collection od Astronomical Treatises, among them being:
Work 2Author standard Ptolemaeus
Title (ms.) Liber Quadripartitus
Incipit Rerum Yesure in quibus est pronosticabilis scientie rerum profectio
Item no. 2
Folio no. 62-96a
Additional texts There follows on 96a, col. 2, a short extract commencing: Cum projectionem radiorum stellarum.
Additional copies See Ii. III. 3, § 17.
Work 3Title (ms.) De Astrolabio
Item no. 6
Folio no. 115b-9b
Additional copies See Hh. VI. 8. The present MS. answers to 181-6 in that Volume.
Work 4Title (ms.) A Tract on the Stereoscopic projection of the Sphere, with a Comment
Incipit Spera in quolibet polorum planum contingente
Item no. 7
Folio no. 119b, 120
Explicit (comm.) hoc est in o erit situs illius: quod proponebatur. | et in plano situs cognitus erit.
Math. drawings With figures.
Work 5Title (ms.) A Tract on Proportion, with a Comment
Incipit Proportio est rei ad rem determinata secundum quantitatem habitudo
No. of columns 1 col.
Printed catalogs Glorieux, P., La faculté des arts et ses maitres au XIIIe siècle (1971) 244.
Facsimiles Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 3 (1959) 24.
MF copies Clagett, M., Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A Checklist of Microfilm Reproductions, Isis 44 (1953) 378.
Item no. 8
Folio no. 120, 121a
Explicit (comm.) et omnes pariter fiant, &c. | ex proportione primi ad tertium et quarti ad secundum.
T & K TK 1139
Work 6Title (ms.) De Usu Astrolabii
Contents This work is in 40 chapters, whose contents are prefixed.
Incipit Primum horum est Armilla per quam suspenditur
Item no. 9
Folio no. 121a-6
Rubric Primum Capitulum astrolabii in inventione nominum super illud cadentium.
Explicit de annis Christi ex annis Arabum si Deus voluerit.
Work 7Title (ms.) De inventione sinus et declinationis per Kardagas
Incipit Cum cujuslibet gradus scire volueris sinum vel declinationem
Printed catalogs Glorieux, P., La faculté des arts et ses maitres au XIIIe siècle (1971) 457.
Item no. 10
Folio no. 127, 128a
Explicit et sic habebis elevaciones ipsorum graduum cum suis minutis.
Tables At the foot of the page is Tabula Kardagarum. 'Kardaga est portio circuli ex 15 gradibus'.
T & K TK 288
Work 8Author (ms.) Robt. Grosteste
Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) De arte Computi | De arte Computi per Robt. Grosteste
Incipit (after the table of Capitula) Compotus est scientia numerationis et
Item no. 15
Folio no. 187-200
Explicit Petrus et Andreas Paulus, cum Simone Judas / Ut jejunemus nos admonet, atque Matheus.
Tables With a perpetual table of moveable feasts.
Additional copies See Tanner, p. 346, note a.
Work 9Title (ms.) Theorica Planetarum (inc.)
Incipit Circulus solis dicitur esse ecentricus, non quia centrum non habet
Additional remarks The present copy is defective of the end.
Item no. 16
Folio no. 201-20
Explicit et circumducatur circulus ADBE ubi
Additional information This would seem to be Grostete's by comparison with the abridgement of Grostete's Theorica by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Ii. I. 1, § 317. The commencement, however, of the treatise as given in Tanner and Bale varies, reading lunae for solis.