Work 1 | Title (ms.) |
Varia, inter quae: |
Work 2 | Author standard |
Amanus |
Title (ms.) |
Carmen de arte computandi per digitos |
Incipit |
Computus est talis proprie dictus Manualis |
Additional remarks |
The second leave seems to be lost. |
Folio no. |
1-5 |
Explicit |
Anno bisexti vult una (dies) superaddi. |
Colophon |
Explicit compotus. |
Work 3 | Title (ms.) |
A puzzle |
Incipit |
iij conques voeult a prendre adescanter |
Printed catalogs |
C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 219; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9). |
Folio no. |
6 |
Work 4 | Additional names |
Amanus |
Title (ms.) |
Commentarius in carmen quod est dictum "Computus manualis" |
Incipit |
Compotus. Iste est liber compoti Amani in quo ipse Amanus nobis metrice ostendit invencionem quinque festorum mobilium secundum cursum solis et lune |
Folio no. |
7-26b |
Explicit |
It ends with the last line of 1-5 (which is the text of this commentary). |
Colophon |
Explicit Compotus. |
Work 5 | Author standard |
Hermes | Stephanus de Messana |
Title (ms.) |
Amphorismi astronomici |
Incipit |
Dixit Hermes quod sol et luna post dominum omnium vivencium vita sunt multorum. Propositio prima. |
Folio no. |
53-7b |
Rubric |
Incipiunt amphorismi astronomici. Domino Manfredo inclito Regi Cecilie Stephanus de Messana hos flores de scientijs astronomie domini Hermetis transtulit. |
Colophon |
Explicit tractatus de Judiciis 100 propositionum. |
Glosses etc. |
The title "Hermetis aphorismi astron: interprete Stephano de Messano" has been written by a more modern hand at the beginning". Another ancient hand added: "Expliciunt flores Hermetis termegesti criosa theostenes". |
Work 6 | Title (ms.) |
De numeris quadratis annotatio |
Incipit |
Omnis numerus cubicus multiplicatus in se |
Printed catalogs |
C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 219; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9). |
Folio no. |
57b |
Work 7 | Author standard |
Gerardus Cremonensis |
Title (ms.) |
Libri astronomie (numero duodecim) |
Folio no. |
57b |
Rubric |
Isti sunt libri astronomie quos transtulit Gerardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum. |
Work 8 | Author standard |
Betem |
Title (ms.) |
Centiloquium |
Contents |
This tract consists of 100 sentences written continuously (not separately as 58-63b). |
Incipit |
Primo scias quod planete quando sunt |
Folio no. |
67b-9b |
Rubric |
Centiloquium Betem. Nunc inchoabo librum de consuetudinibus et judicijs stellarum. |
Colophon |
Explicit centiloquium bethem. |
Work 9 | Author standard |
Euclides |
Title (ms.) |
Undecimus (liber) |
Incipit |
Corpus est quod longitudinem et latitudinem et altitudinem habet |
Folio no. |
71-5b | 71r-5v |
Rubric |
Incipit undecimus (liber) Euclidis. |
Work 10 | Author (ms.) |
Ametus filius Joseph' |
Author standard |
Ahmad ben Yusuf |
Title (ms.) |
De proportione et proportionalitate |
Incipit |
Jam respondi tibi ut scias quod quesivisti |
Printed catalogs |
C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 141; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9). |
Publ. descriptions |
M. Steinschneider, Iusuf ben Ibrahim und Ahmed ben Iusuf, Bibliotheca Mathematica, NF 2 (1888) 112. |
Facsimiles |
M. Clagett & J.E. Murdoch, Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 2 (1958) 136. |
Folio no. |
76-90b | 76r-90v |
Rubric |
Incipit epistola Ameti filii Joseph' de proportione et de proportionalitate. |
Explicit |
est sufficiens natura et tutor bonus. |
Colophon |
Finis epistola Ameti filij Josep de proporcione et de proporcionali(ta)te. |
Math. drawings |
The diagrams of this mathematical tract are drawn on the margins, as in 71-5b. |
Work 11 | Title (ms.) |
Tractatus de radiis (inc. ?) |
Incipit |
Oportet postquam optamus complere artes doctrinales |
Additional remarks |
It ends on a full quire, and the next article begins on a vellum leaf, inserted in s. 15 to fill up the imperfection of its beginning. Beside the diagrams drawn on the margins and in the text, there are some inserted on small schedules, or pieces of parchment, bound in between the leaves; namely after 110, 114 (this is a large piece of paper having part of the draught of some index on one side), 118, 165, 169 (paper), and after 173 and 174 are two in each place. |
Folio no. |
91-6b |
Rubric |
Tractatus de radiis et umbris et aliis ad perspectivam pertinentibus. |
Explicit |
cum tabula transi^te per lineas u et |
Math. drawings |
with diagrams |
Work 12 | Author standard |
Jeberus |
Title (ms.) |
De sciencia forme motuum solis et lune |
Contents |
In the beginning of this work are many remarks on the books of Ptolemaeus, Theodosius, and Milius. |
Incipit |
Sciencia species habet, quarum melior post scienciam fidei |
Additional remarks |
The number of each of these tracts or books is usually noted on the corner of the leaves. The catchword is partly cut off. |
Folio no. |
97-178b |
Rubric |
Liber Jeberi continens tractatus novem (de sciencia forme motuum solis et lune et stellarum et cognicionis orbium earum) |