Work 1 | Century |
14 ex. |
No. of ms. part |
I (1-) |
Work 2 | Author 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 3 | Author (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 4 | Author 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 5 | Title (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 6 | Century |
13 |
Place of origin |
France (probably) |
No. of ms. part |
II (40-) |
Work 7 | Author (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 8 | Author 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. |