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Jordanus


Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 67

Old shelfmarks 1477; 93
Century 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Language English | Latin
Owner’s notes (s. 14) "Liber domus scolarium de Merton in Oxon., ex legato M. Joh. Reynham, sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii ejusdem domus".
Previous owners Inter codd. T. Allen, "A. 149. 48", "85 A. 82", etc. | Inter codd. T. Allen.
Material Membr. & Chart.
No. of leaves c. 177
Printed catalogs William D. Macray, Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae IX (1883) 73-6. F. Madan & H.H.E. Craster, A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford II 1 (1922) 72 # 1668.
Source Folkerts | Macray
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Work 2Author standard Richard of Wallingford
Title (ms.) An introduction to the art of astrological calculations (6 chap.)
Incipit Tho the perfecte knawlege of the domes of the crafte of astronomye
Publ. descriptions J.D. Bond, Richard Wallingford (1292 ? - 1335), Isis 4 (1921/2) 461.
Folio no. 6-12v
Rubric Exafrenon pronosticationum temporis
Tables With regard to the tables of calculations the translator says in chap. 1, "The tables are of myne awne makyng. For the tables of the Abbot of Sancte Albones <are> made full of erroures, and <thorn>at I trewe bee throwgh the vices of writers and nott of the worshipfull clerke and prelate <thorn>at <thorn>e treites made".
Work 3Author standard Haly Abenragel
Title (ms.) De subradiis planetarum
Incipit Saturnus in Ariete subradiis facit pluvias
Folio no. 12v-
Work 4Author standard Ferrarius
Additional names Anselmus
Title (ms.) Breviloquium compendiosum, de libro comprehensionis multorum
Contents Continet experimenta varia, numero 33.
Printed copies Notitia codicis, una cum excerptis de compositione ignis Graecae, etc. inveniatur in praefatione ad librum cui tit. "The Merchant and the Friar" by Sir F. Palgrave (1837) xxvi-xxx.
Additional remarks Tit. corrected to Albubery Arazi.
Folio no. 32-
Rubric De libro comprehensionis multorum quem composuit Albukecy Nazi, filius Zacharie, philosophus Damascenus, quem nuper transtuli in Coleno a lingua Arabica in Latinam
Work 5Author standard Marcus Grecus
Title (ms.) Liber ignium
Contents Experimenta 25
Folio no. 33v-
Rubric Liber ignium, a Marco Greco descriptus, cujus virtus et efficacia ad comburendos hostes tam in mari quam in terra plurimum efficax invenitur
Work 6Title (ms.) Experimenta multa et varia ad miranda operanda, de coloribus, etc.
Folio no. 37-44
Work 7Title (ms.) Quaedam brevia, incompleta, de arte arithmetica
Contents Algorismus hic dicitur, "Arborismus, scil. ab Arborio ejus inventore dicta".
Incipit Due principales institutiones matheseos secundum duplicem multitudinis consideracionem distinguntur
Folio no. 55v-7
T & K TK 471
Work 8Title (ms.) Ludus arithmeticus, Pyoscaxym sive Pugna numerorum, alias Rithmachia, dictus
Century 12
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 79-80
Prolog Animi adolescentum ad exercenda ludicra
Explicit (prol.) Hujus ergo ludi modum jocosis et precipue juvenibus ego coevus et magis appetens ludicra quam seria non diffugiam enucleare.