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Jordanus


Oxford, Bodleian Library, Savile 16

Century 13 | 14 ex.
Language Latin
Composite ms. 2 parts
Material Membr.
Height × width 12 3/10 x 8 7/10 in.
No. of leaves 67
Cover White leather on boards with traces of two clasps, s. 15 English work.
Printed catalogs F. Madan, H.H.E. Craster & N. Denholm-Young, A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford II 2 (1937) 1103-4 # 6562.
Source Folkerts | Madan et al. (1937)
Type of source cat. | pvt. notes
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Century 14 ex.
No. of ms. part I (1-)
Work 2Author standard Nicolaus Oresmius
Title (ms.) De motibus spherarum
Incipit Ad pauca respicientes
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 286; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 1-
Math. drawings With pen-and-ink diagrams.
Work 3Author (ms.) Dominicus de Mascinario
Author standard Dominicus de Clavasio | Dominicus de Mascinario
Title (ms.) A treatise on trigonometry | Practica geometriae
Incipit Quantitatem aliquam invenire. Est invenire quociens in ea aliqua famosa
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 252; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Publ. descriptions H.L.L. Busard, The Practica Geometriae of Dominicus de Clavasio, Archiv for History of Exact Sciences 2 (1965) 520 521.
Folio no. 4-
Colophon Expliciunt practice concinate ordinate per magistrum Dominicum de Mascinario complete anno ab incarnatione domini 1346 prima die Maij.
Math. drawings Illustrated.
Work 4Author standard Roger Bacon
Title (ms.) Perspectiva
Incipit Propositis radicibus sapiencie
Printed catalogs Not included in the MSS. cited by A.G. Little, List of Roger Bacon's Works, rep. from the Proceedings of the British Society of Franciscan Studies (1911).
Folio no. 14-
Work 5Title (ms.) An arithmetical treatise
Incipit Unitatis tanta est respectu numero
Printed catalogs C. Singer & D.W. Singer, Hand-list of scientific MSS. in the British Isles dating from before the sixteenth century # 376; cf. D.W.Singer, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 15 (1917-9).
Folio no. 35-
Work 6Century 13
Place of origin France (probably)
No. of ms. part II (40-)
Work 7Author (ms.) Alfraganus
Author standard Ahmed b. Muh. b. Ketîr el-Fargani | Al-Fargani | Alfraganus
Title (ms.) Liber de aggregacionibus sciencie stellarum (30 chpts.)
Folio no. 40-
Rubric Incipit liber de aggregacionibus sciencie stellarum et principiis celestium motuum Admeti filii Admeti qui dictus est Alfraganus
Additional information The last leaf (for the important colophon of which see L. Thorndike, History of Magic 2 74) is now GOxfB Digby 190, 87.
Work 8Author standard John of Spain | Ma Sha' Allah al Misri | Messahala
Title (ms.) On the astrolabe
Folio no. 49-
Initial lines IV has "in isto libro sunt 8º quaterni quorum duo mobiles sunt (s. 15), an erased inscription, and a s. 17 table of contents.
Glosses etc. (55v) Late s. 12 allusions to works not now in the volume.
Blank leaves 56-end.