Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 361

Scribe(s)	<alpha> 1-125, <beta> (126-8), <gamma> (129-60) (?)
Century	14
Place of origin	(13-44d) It seems that the last part was composed in France, and the second part in England. \| England \| France
Language	Latin
Composite ms.	<2 parts ?> (129-160 are of the same age, but seem to have been a different book)
Material	Membr.
Format	4
No. of leaves	160
Binding leaves	At each end are two fly-leaves of vellum; and on those at the beginning of the books are written some pieces, chiefly by a hand of s. 15, which also wrote some notes on the margins of the MS.
No. of hands	3 (?)
No. of columns	in columns
Ink	with pale ink
Initials etc.	painted capitals
Printed catalogs	W.H. Black, Catalogue of the Manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by E. Ashmole (1845) 276-80.
Source	Black (1845) \| Folkerts
Type of source	cat. \| pvt. notes
Source’s source	insp.

Work 1	Title (ms.)	Varia, inter quae:
Work 2	Title (ms.)	Tabula ostendens signum in quo sit luna omni die lunationis in quovis anni mense
Work 2	Folio no.	p. 4
Work 3	Title (ms.)	Theorica Planetarum
	Incipit	Circulus ecentricus
	Folio no.	1-10c
	Rubric	Incipit Theorica Planetarum.
	Explicit	et non corporaliter.
	Colophon	Explicit theorica planetarum.
	Additional copies	See GOxfB Ashmole 360, 71-5e.
Work 4	Title (ms.)	Algorismus Minuciarum
	Incipit	Cum multos de numeris tractatus vidisses
	Printed catalogs	C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 221; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
	Folio no.	10c-2d
	Rubric	Incipit Algorismus Minuciarum.
	Explicit	Ne quid solum necessarium desit operi tam brevissimo.
	Colophon	Explicit algorismus minuciarum.
Work 5	Author standard	Robertus Cestrensis
	Title (ms.)	De universa scientia astronomica et astrologica
	Contents	At 29d begins a paragraph thus: "Transcurso tractatu de sole: consequenter lune volubilitatem demonstramus". At 35 begins a tract on the Astrolab, thus: "Quelibet ars suum habet artificem et suum instrumentum"; which ends thus at 41d: "si ternarius triplum et sic deinceps. et hec de practica astralabii sufficiant". The next parts are about 12 houses (beg. Domos per tabulas sic invenies) and about ecplipses, with a table: the last words before the table are: "et nota quod hujus regionis latitudo est 48 graduum per has regukas quantitatis eclipsium invenies certissime".
	Incipit	Locus itaque draconis a loco lune aufretur
	Printed catalogs	This author is not mentioned in Bp. Tanner's Bibl. Brit.
	Additional remarks	This work is so irregularly constructed, that it is difficult to say whether this copy be complete, or whether all the portions here described ought properly to be considered as belonging to one work.
	Folio no.	13-44d
	Rubric	(19d) Incipit pars altera hujus operis, que videlicet ad meridiem urbis Londoniarum juxta Albate (leg. Abbatis) Harecensis sententiam, per Robertum Cestrensem contextitur. \| De latitudine.
	Other passages	At 19d & 24b is said, that the former part was calculated according to the Toletan tables beginning in 1169, and that the tables mentioned in this part, began in 1150.
	Tables	(27cd:) "tabula absidis solis ut per eam absides aliorum planetarum juxta presens tempus inveniantur". On the next page is another table.
Work 6	Title (ms.)	Tractatus qui appellatur Summa Astrologicae
	Incipit	Astrologie consideracio circa 4^or. consistis. circa elementa. circa circulos. circa signa. circa planetas.
	Additional remarks	Much of the third column is blank, as if some of the text were wanted.
	Folio no.	45-56b
	Explicit	et minus moratur ibi sol .ii^bus. diebus.
	Colophon	Explicit Summa Astrologie.
	Other passages	The poet Lucanus is often quoted here.
Work 7	Title (ms.)	Tabula solis cursus
	Folio no.	56c
	Rubric	Tabula solis cursus secundum .8. spere retrogradationem. in omni signo et gradu.
Work 8	Title (ms.)	Tabula cursus lune
	Folio no.	57
	Rubric	Tabula cursus lune in omni signo ad quemlibet mensem et diem.
Work 9	Title (ms.)	De conditionibus Astrolabij
	Contents	The second paragraph is thus headed: "Cum volueris sumere ascensiones solis. Capitulum tercium:" the other chapters are not numbered. The last is to find "Quot horis ascendit signum in circulo obliquo".
	Incipit	Sume etatem lune quotacunque sit
	Folio no.	57a-63d
	Rubric	(taken from the list of contents) De conditionibus Astrolabij
	Explicit	in circulo obliquo per horas.
	Additional copies	It resembles the Practica astrolabii in GOxfB Ashmole 340, 29-38, and GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 95a-101d; but is much mutilated by the scribe, for neither the title, nor the beginning, nor the end, is in this MS.
Work 10	Title (ms.)	De loco solis in signo et gradu cujuslibet mensis
	Incipit	Cun volueris scire locum solis
	Folio no.	63d
	Rubric	De loco solis in signo et gradu cujuslibet mensis.
Work 11	Title (ms.)	De loco lune inveniendo
	Incipit	Cum volueris
	Folio no.	64
	Rubric	De loco lune inveniendo.
Work 12	Title (ms.)	De divisione mansionum
	Incipit	Divisio mansionum
	Folio no.	64b
	Rubric	De divisione mansionum.
Work 13	Title (ms.)	De locis planetarum aliorum per locum lune
	Folio no.	65
	Rubric	De locis planetarum aliorum per locum lune.
Work 14	Title (ms.)	De direccione et retrogradacione et statione planetarum
	Folio no.	65c
	Rubric	De direccione et retrogradacione et statione planetarum.
Work 15	Title (ms.)	De composicione quadrantis
	Folio no.	65-6
	Rubric	De composicione quadrantis.
	Additional copies	It is different from the tracts in GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 70b-8b & 122b-32.
Work 16	Title (ms.)	De assumpcione horarum per quadrantem
	Folio no.	66
	Rubric	De assumpcione horarum per quadrantem.
Work 17	Title (ms.)	De assumpcione ascendentis per quadrantem
	Folio no.	66bcd
	Rubric	De assumpcione ascendentis per quadrantem.
	Explicit	secundum ordinem signi in quo est sol.
	Math. drawings	A diagram of a quadrant is drawn on the lower half of the page, and on the next is an astronomical diagram.
Work 18	Author standard	Mofornht
	Title (ms.)	Canones tabularum universalium
	Contents	This work consists of 53 Sermones.
	Incipit	Scientia a philosophis recte disposita quam secundum naturam vocamus
	Folio no.	67-88c
	Rubric	In the list of contents it is called "bonus tractatus, multa bona et utilia continens". \| Incipiunt canones tabularum universalium secundum filium Mofornht.
	Explicit	et medium celi ad omnia opera facienda et ad omne opus quod vis cogitare.
Work 19	Title (ms.)	Aphorismi xi arithmetici
	Incipit	Omnis figura primo loco posita se ipsam significat
	Folio no.	88c-9a
	T & K	TK 997
Work 20	Title (ms.)	Tractatus in quo continetur doctrina motus accessionis etc.
	Incipit	Speram equinoctij et 3^es circulos in ea signatos
	Folio no.	89-91c
	Rubric	Tractatus in quo continetur doctrina motus accessionis et recessionis et designacionis figure ipsius sicud est in celo
	Explicit	qui eis et omnibus planetis: communis existit.
	Colophon	Hic finitur Spera celi.
Work 21	Author standard	Alexander de Villa Dei
	Title (ms.)	De Massa Compoti
	Contents	This copy of the metrical computation of master Alexander de Villa Dei (see the note on GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 187c-98b, also GOxfB Ashmole 360, 138-40b) has an ample commentary on both the preface and the text of the poem.
	Incipit	Licet modo in fine temporum
	Incipit 2	(comm.) Temporum ponitur ibi pro fine 6 etatum
	Additional remarks	The commentary was probably composed by the same author as the comment on Joh. de Sacrobosco in GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 43-70a, as it may be conjectured from a comparison of the explanations of the word "evum" at 92d, and at the end of the article.
	Folio no.	91c-110d
	Rubric	Sequitur de Massa Compoti et ejus speciebus.
	Explicit	(comm.) sicut defecerit primum alphabetum pretende secundum etc.
Work 22	Author standard	Gerlandus
	Title (ms.)	Tabulae quatuor
	Contents	Scilicet: (1) tabula principalis Gerlandi, ab anno 988 ad 1492; (2) ejusdem altera; (3) tabula epactarum et aurei numeri ad claves; (4) ad docendum quot sint "ebdomade cum diebus a nativitate domini usque ad xl".
	Folio no.	111a, 111b, 112a
	Additional copies	Compare (1) & (2) with GOxfB ashmole 360, 158b-9; and (4) with 128 of this MS.
Work 23	Author standard	Alexander de Villa Dei
	Title (ms.)	Carmen de algorismo seu arithmetica
	Incipit	Hec algorismus presens ars dicitur in qua
	Folio no.	112b-7
	Explicit	Si sint equales fac ut primus ante videndo.
	Colophon	Finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo. \| Hic liber est scriptus qui scripsit sit benedictus. \| Explicit Algorismus.
	Additional copies	The first of the concluding lines ("Si sint equales fac ut ...") is the 26th from the end in GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 7.
Work 24	Title (ms.)	Tabula notationem algoristicam verbis exponens
	Contents	This is a notation-table, showing on the highest line the 9 digits in reversed order: each of the other 8 lines contains a digit represented in 9 times: every place of the table is explained in Latin, and a general note is set below.
	Folio no.	117b
Work 25	Author standard	Johannes de Sacrobosco
	Title (ms.)	Tractatus de arithmetica
	Incipit	Omnia que a prima
	Folio no.	119-24c
	Explicit	quam in cubicis etc.
	Colophon	Explicit Algorismus.
	Additional copies	The same as GOxfB Ashmole 342, 143-7b, and GOxfB Ashmole 1522, 17-24d, which see.
Work 26	Title (ms.)	Tractatus de computo manuali
	Incipit	Ad sciendum doctrinam manuum ista duo sunt necessaria .s. ciclus solis et lunaris
	Folio no.	124c-5d
	Explicit	Et sciendum quod terminus et festum nunquam in eadem die celebrantur.
	Additional copies	This is different from the tracts on the same subject in GOxfB Ashmole 342 50, and GOxfB Ashmole 357, 1-5.
Work 27	Scribe(s)	This text is written in the book by the same hand as some of the entries on the fly-leaves.
	Title (ms.)	Instructio
	Incipit	Si vis invenire eclipsim lune que sit in 3º anno domini
	Folio no.	126-7b
	Explicit	sed in proposito exemplo non habebit moram.
	Blank leaves	the following page
Work 28	Scribe(s)	This text is written in the book by the same hand as some of the entries on the fly-leaves.
	Title (ms.)	Tabula
	Additional remarks	cum brevi explicatione
	Folio no.	128
	Rubric	Tabula ad sciendum quot ebdomade sunt inter diem natalis domini et primam dominicam xl^e.
	Additional copies	Compare 112a.
Work 29	Scribe(s)	This text is written in the book by the same hand as some of the entries on the fly-leaves.
	Title (ms.)	Tabula
	Contents	Tabula rotunda monstrans aureos numeros et literas dominicales per unum cyclum lunarem (cujus secundus annus fuit "Anno domini Mº.cccº.xii.") et 9 annos praeterea.
	Folio no.	128b
	Additional copies	Compare GOxfB Ashmole 242, 153b.