PAL

Jordanus


London, British Museum, Cotton Tiberius B. IX.

Century 14 | 15
Material Chart.
Height × width 150 x 210 (c.)
No. of leaves 236 | 272
Condition Frustum, capsula asservatum. The whole is so demaged by fire as to be scarcely of any use. | Schwere Brandschäden.
Printed catalogs A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (1802) 37.
Other notes Containing eight tracts, the principal of which was a "Register of William Cratfield, abbot of St. Edmund." Casley mentions that Dr. Pepush had copies of the 3, 4, and 5 tracts, being on music; probably also of one between # 3 and 4, being a treatise of Egidius de Muris, which Smith had omitted in his printed edition catalogue. N.B. The copies of # 3, 4, and 5, have since been presented to the British Mus. by S^r John Hawkins: v. Aysc. Catal. # 4909.
Source Cotton Cat. (1802) | Folkerts (8.2.83)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Contents Bis 203v sicher keine Mathematik, sondern Register.
Work 2Author standard Roger Bacon
Title (ms.) De sectione conica
Printed catalogs Glorieux, P., Répertoire des maitres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle 2 (1933) 70. Glorieux, P., La faculté des arts et ses maitres au XIIIe siècle (1971) 342.
Publ. descriptions Little, A.G., Roger Bacon's works with references to the mss. and printed editions, Roger Bacon essays, ed. A.G. Little (1914) 409 # 44 & 410 # 45.
Folio no. 227v-30v
Work 3Author standard Mahumetus Bagdanus
Title (ms.) Liber divisionum
Additional information Watson, A.G., The provenance of John Dee's manuscript of the De superficierum divisionibus of Machometus Bagdedinus, Isis 64 (1973) 382. Rose, P.L., Commandino, John Dee, and the De superficierum divisionibus of Machometus Bagdedinus, Isis 63 (1972) 90ff.