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Jordanus

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 98

Old shelfmarks 1569; 185
Contents (1v) Tabula contentorum manu s. 15 praemissa.
Century 12 ex. (78-107) | 13 (162-) | 14 | 15 (4-77, 107-, 177-)
Language Latin
Owner’s notes (197v) "William Maydwelle"
Previous owners Inter codd. T. Allen, "A. 136", "19".
Material Membr. & Chart.
Format 4
No. of leaves 263
No. of hands (162-) 2 cols.
Initials etc. (78-86) Rubrica et literae a scriba omissae sunt.
Printed catalogs William D. Macray, Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae IX (1883) 108-13. F. Madan & H.H.E. Craster, A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford II 1 (1922) 73 # 1699.
Source Folkerts | Macray | Madan & Craster (1922)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Title (ms.) Varia, inter quae:
Work 2Author standard Alexander de Villa Dei
Title (ms.) Carmen de algorismo
Incipit Hec Algorimus ars presens dicitur in qua
Incipit 2 (comm.) Liber iste quem pre manibus habemus dividitur in duas partes
Additional remarks cum commentario
Folio no. 21v- | 21v-30
Rubric Tractatus de Algorismo
Work 3Title (ms.) Tabula extraccionis radicum in cubitis et in quadratis
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 372; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 30-
Rubric Tabula extraccionis radicum in cubitis et in quadratis
Work 4Title (ms.) Versus xiv de progressione in algorismo
Incipit Cum sit contraria progressio terminus impar
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 372; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Additional remarks cum commento
Folio no. 31-
T & K TK 342
Work 5Title (ms.) Ars docens multiplicare sine anterioracione vel deleccione figurarum
Incipit En brevis interius datur ars nova multiplicandi, | Qua nec transfertur nec demitur ulla figura
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 372; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Additional remarks metrice
Folio no. 31v-
Rubric Ars docens multiplicare sine anterioracione vel deleccione figurarum
T & K TK 498
Work 6Title (ms.) Tabula numerorum quorundam usque ad decem loca
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 372; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 33v-
Work 7Author standard Pseudo-Alkuin
Title (ms.) Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes | Quaestiones variae arithmeticae
Incipit Quidam senex salutat puerum, cui dixit
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 372; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Printed copies Multae ex his impressae sunt inter "Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes" apud Bedae opera spuria.
Folio no. 34- | 34r-9v
T & K TK 1246
Work 8Author standard Euclides
Title (ms.) Elementorum geometriae (usque ad prop. iv. libri iii.)
Facsimiles M. Clagett & J.E. Murdoch, Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Reviesed Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 2 (1958) 151.
MF copies M. Clagett, Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A Check List of Microfilm Reproductions, Isis 44 (1953) 376.
Folio no. 78- | 78-86
Math. drawings Figurae delineatae sunt in margine usque ad prop. xv. libri i.
Work 9Author standard Boethius
Scribe(s) Desinit manus prima in initio cap. iii. lib. i.; sed exinde manus secunda, saec. xiv., continuat textum usque ad finem cap. xv.
Title (ms.) Pars Arithmeticae
Folio no. 86- | 86-107
Work 10Title (ms.) Contra opinionem ponentem quadrantum continuum componi ex non quadratis
Incipit Contra opinionem ponentem quadrantum continuum componi ex non quadratis
Folio no. 107-
Colophon Deo gracias quod Partriche
T & K TK 262
Work 11Author (ms.) Simon Bredon
Author standard Simon Bredon
Title (ms.) De arithmetica
Incipit Quantitatum alia continua que magnitudo dicitur, alia discreta
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 300; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 109- | 109-17
Rubric Incipit quedam abstraccio et competens exposicio Arsmetrice Boiccii
Colophon Explicit Arsmetrica Bredone. Deo gracias quod Partriche
T & K TK 1175
Work 12Author standard Johannes Peccham
Title (ms.) Perspectiva, libris tribus
Incipit Inter philosophice consideracionis studia
Folio no. 118-
Colophon Explicit Perspectiva fratris Johannis de Peccham.
Work 13Title (ms.) Notitia contentorum in libris Elementorum Euclidis
Folio no. 128-
Work 14Author standard Euclides
Title (ms.) Euklid I
Contents (128) Notitia contentorum in libris Elementorum. Propositiones i-iv libri primi
Folio no. 128- | 128r-32
Math. drawings cum figuris propp. i-xlvii
Work 15Author standard Simon Bredon
Title (ms.) Theorica planetarum
Incipit Circulus ecentricus, circulus egresse cuspidis, et circulus egredientis centri idem sunt
Folio no. 132-
Math. drawings cum figuris
Work 16Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) Tractatus docens cognoscere questiones astrolabii
Incipit Astrolabii circulos et membra nominatim disvernere
Folio no. 145v
Colophon Explicit practica Astrolabii.
T & K TK 154
Work 17Author standard Gualterus Britte
Title (ms.) Tractatus de compositione et officio quadrantis
Incipit Post compositionem chylindri nunc cujusdam instrumenti horologici
Century 14 ex
Precise date 1395
Additional remarks Qu. annon auctor sit Gualterus Britte qui inter Mertonenses tempore supradicto vigebat? Anno 1395 compositus (ut videtur).
Folio no. 148v-
Explicit Hec quoque breviter dicta de practica quadrantis causa introductionis sufficiant ad presens. Completa Oxon. in domo Scolarium de Merton tempore superius annotato.
Colophon Explicit tractatus de practica quadrantis quod Partrich.
T & K TK 1062
Work 18Title (ms.) Experimentum de radiis solis in crystallum sphericum aqua plenum venientibus
Folio no. 152-
Math. drawings cum figuris
Work 19Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) Tractatus de luce
Incipit Formam primam corporalem quam corporeitatem nominant lucem esse arbitror
Folio no. 152v- | 152v-3v
Rubric Tractatus de luce secundum Lyncolniensem
Work 20Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) Tractatus de spera
Incipit Intencio nostra in hoc tractatu est machine mundane formam describere
Folio no. 158-
Rubric Tractatus de spera secundum Lincoln.
Colophon Explicit Spera sancti Roberti Lyncolniensis episcopi. Deo gracias quod Partriche.
Work 21Title (ms.) Liber quadrantis
Incipit Cum quadrantem componere volueris accipe tabulam eneam vel ligneam bene politam
Printed catalogs P. Glorieux, La faculté des arts et ses maitres au 13^e siècle (Études de philosophie médiévale 59) (1971) 331.
Publ. descriptions S.H. Thomson, The writings of Robert Grosseteste (1940) 261.
Folio no. 162- | 162-5v
Tables cum tabulis ad meridiem Oxon.
Work 22Title (ms.) Liber de compositione chilindri
Incipit Investigantibus chilindri composicionem quod dicitur Orilogium
Folio no. 166-
Colophon Explicit composicio chilindri cum ejus operacione que facta est apud Oxoniam
Additional copies Exemplar alteram in GOxfB Ashmole 1522, art. 20.
Work 23Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) Tractatus de sphaera
Incipit Cum de composicione machine mundane que spericaest sit presens intencio
Folio no. 168-
Colophon Explicit tractatus de Spera secundum R. episcopum Lincolliensem <addidit manus secunda "sed abbreviatus">
T & K TK 289
Work 24Author standard Johannes de Sacrobosco
Title (ms.) Tractatus de sphaera
Incipit Tractatum de spere <sic> in quatuor capitulo distinguimus
Folio no. 171-
Colophon Explicit tractatus de spera secundum communem usum; <addit manus secunda "quem edidit magister Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Anglicus">
Additional texts Hic desunt, secundum veterem contentorum tabulam, "Cronice Cestrensis abbreviate".