PAL

Jordanus

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 190

Old shelfmarks 1506; 122
Century 13 | 14 in.
Language Latin
Previous owners Inter MSS. Th. Allen: (1-) "223"; (29-) "40", "39"; (38-) "79", "70"; (44-) "26", "62"; (66-) "188", "37"; (90-) "45"; (175-) "28", "36". (90-) antehac inter contenta GOxfB Digby 191 locum suum habebant, ut ex tabula ibi inserta patet. Codex autem olim ita confuse compactus fuit, priusquam in bibliothecam Bodl. venit, quod vix in ordinem reduci nunc possent folia. | Olim T. Allen.
Material Membr.
Format f
No. of leaves 209
No. of hands variis manibus
Printed catalogs William D. Macray, Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae IX (1883) 201-4. F. Madan & H.H.E. Craster, A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford II 1 (1922) 75 # 1791.
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 Albertus Magnus
Title (ms.) Tractatus de mineralibus (inc.)
Century 14 ex
Additional remarks Desinit mutilus (deficientibus foliis quatuor) in cap. iii. tract. ii. libri iii. De colore metallorum
Folio no. 1-
Work 3Author standard Johannes de Muris
Title (ms.) Extrema pars tractatus de canonibus tabulae minutiarum
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 76; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 66
Colophon Explicit tractatulus canonum tabule minuciarum philosophicarum et vulgarium, qui tractatus et tabula composita sunt a magistro Jo. de Mur', Normano, qui eodem anno complevit plures alios tractulos (sic) cum isto, ut hujus tractatuli finis manifestat.
Other passages Anno 1321 auctor dicit se hunc librum composuisse, aliosque tractatus eodem tempore scriptos ita recenset: "Eodemque anno noticia artis musice proferende, figurande, tam mensurabilis quam plane, quantum ad omnem modum possibilem discantandi, non solum per integra sed usque ad minutissimas fracciones; Cognicioque circuli quadrature perfectissime demonstrata; Exposicioque tabularum Alphonsi regis Castelle; ac Genealogia Astronomie nobis claruit, Altissimo collaudato; que tanquam inaudita et ignota ceteris annis antecedentibus quasi sopita in thesauro sapiencie jacuerunt".
Work 4Title (ms.) Tractatus arithmeticus (forsan inc.)
Contents De additione, subtracione, multiplicatione et divisione numerorum, cum regulis ad exprimendum "ab alieno corde factas meditaciones de numero".
Incipit Cum agitur de numeris aut agitur de eis secundum eorum naturam
Printed catalogs P. Glorieux, La faculté des arts et ses maitres au 13^e siècle (Études de philosophie médiévale 59) (1971) 456. C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 229; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 66v-
T & K TK 280
Work 5Author standard Johannes de Muris
Title (ms.) Tractatus de minutiis philosophicis et vulgaribus
Contents sub octo titulis
Incipit Modum representacionis minuciarum vulgarium et philosophicarum preponere. Quia in fraccionibus sunt duo
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 76; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 72v-
T & K TK 1220
Work 6Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) De quadratura circuli
Printed catalogs P. Glorieux, La faculté des arts et ses maitres au 13^e siècle (Études de philosophie médiévale 59) (1971) 326. S.H. Thomson, The writings of Robert Grosseteste (1940) 113.
Facsimiles M. Clagett & J.E. Murdoch, Medieval Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy: A Revised Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions, Manuscripta 3 (1959) 33.
MF copies M. Clagett, Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A Check List of Microfilm Reproductions, Isis 44 (1953) 380.
Additional remarks Fragmentum e quodam codice s. 13.
Folio no. 87v
Rubric Quadratura circuli per lunulas
Work 7Author standard Ricardus de Wallingford
Title (ms.) Quadripartitum de sinibus demonstratis, libri quatuor
Incipit Quia canones non perfecte tradunt noticiam sinus
Folio no. 90-
Rubric Tractatus de sinibus demonstratis
Colophon Explicit quartus tractatus de corda recta et versa (hic sequebatur nomen auctoris, postea diligenter erasum) ... fratris ... Wa ... in quo apparent omnia facilia et levia que peritis astrologis usque ad tempus suum (sinum, MS.) fuerant quasi occulta (occultis, MS.) et modernis loquentibus omnino ignorata.
Additional information J.D. Bond, Richard Wallingford (1292?-1335), Isis 4 (1921/22) 461.
Work 8Title (ms.) Tractatus de motu et speciebus ejus
Contents Tractatus, in quo multae quaestiones, sive argumenta, proponuntur de lineis, angulis, circulis, etc., quibus solutiones adduntur. In ora inferiori sunt haec, manu paululum recentiori, "Incipiunt falsigravie de motu et aliis"; in tabula contentorum GOxfB Digby 191 "Falsegraphie geometrie".
Incipit Sequitur que species sint sub ipso Ar(istoteles). Motuum alius est generacio, alius corrupcio
Folio no. 105v-
Explicit Sed nihil est citra tuam rationalitatem.
Work 9Title (ms.) Tractatus super arithmeticam (aceph.)
Contents regulae cum exemplis et commentariis
Incipit (sectio 1) Digitus est omnis numerus minor x:
Incipit 2 (sectio 2) Numerus compositus est qui constat ex numeris diversorum limitum
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 129; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Additional remarks Hic illic a scriba confuse scriptus.
Folio no. 128-
Explicit Quod autem idem contingat in cubicarum radicibus extrahendis ita considera. Amen.
Blank leaves (inter 138-9) tres paginae vacuae
Work 10Author standard Johannes de Sacrobosco
Title (ms.) Tractatus de algorismo, sive arte numerandi
Incipit Omnia que a primeva rerum origine processerunt racione numerorum formata sunt
Printed copies Impress. apud Rara Mathematica per J.O. Halliwell (1841).
Folio no. 169v- | 169v-75
Colophon Explicit Algorismus.
Work 11Author standard Alexander de Villa Dei
Title (ms.) Carmen de algorismo | Tractatus de algorismo (inc.)
Incipit Hec algorismus ars presens
Incipit 2 (post explicationem figurarum in arithmetica usitatarum, ita procedit) De modo legendi secundum quod uno modo debet scribi, incipiendo a parte dextra
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 129; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 175- | 175-81v
Explicit et tunc ultimum productum erit numerator
T & K TK 380
Work 12Title (ms.) Synopsis tractatus cujusdam de arithmetica
Incipit P. in quo continetur divisio mathematice. Capitula. i. Inter omnes prisse (sic) auctoritatis
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 129; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Additional remarks exhibens titulos capitulorum cum verbis initialibus
Folio no. 181v-
Work 13Title (ms.) Tabula exhibens comparationem numeri paris et imparis
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 129; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 183, 183v
Work 14Author standard Thomas Bradwardinus
Title (ms.) Arithmetica speculativa
Incipit Eorum que sunt aliud continuum, aliud discretum
Printed catalogs P. Glorieux, La faculté des arts et ses maitres au 13^e siècle (Études de philosophie médiévale 59) (1971) 367. C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 129; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Additional remarks Desunt quaedam, ut videtur, in medio, inter 186-7.
Folio no. 184- | 184-97
Rubric Tractatus super arsmetricam
Explicit sola est epoctus, hoc est sexquigena proporcio diffinitiva.
Colophon Explicit tractatus super arsmetricam.
T & K TK 500
Work 15Author standard Robertus Grosseteste
Title (ms.) Tractatus de iride
Incipit Et perspectivi et philosophi est speculacio de yride
Folio no. 197v-
Blank leaves Sequuntur folia vacua tria.