Oxford, Bodleian Library, Savile 17

Contents	(1) A late s. 15 table of contents.
Century	15/I
Place of origin	England
Language	Latin
Subject 1	Astronomy
Material	Membr.
Height × width	9 2/5 x 6 2/5 in.
No. of leaves	iii + 201
Cover	Red leather on boards, s. 15 English work.
Decorations	With numerous diagrams.
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) 1104-5 # 6563.
Source	Madan et al. (1937)
Type of source	cat.
Source’s source	insp.

Work 1	Title (ms.)	Astronomical treatises and tables, among which are:
Work 2	Author standard	Petrus de Dacia
	Title (ms.)	Kalendarium nouum
	Incipit	Quere in superiori parte istius tabule numerum annorum
	Printed copies	Léopold Delisle, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartres 48 532.
	Additional remarks	Apparently composed about 1300.
	Folio no.	1-
	Rubric	Kalendarium nouum magistri Petri de Dacia
	Tables	Preceded by paschal tables (1v).
	Scribbles	(1) Some erased inscriptions.
Work 3	Title (ms.)	A "practica astrolabii" (50 chpts)
	Incipit	Nomina instrumentorum sunt hec
	Folio no.	11v-
	Tables	With a table.
Work 4	Title (ms.)	De spera celi
	Incipit	Spera celi ut dicit Ysidorus est species quedam
	Folio no.	22v-
	Rubric	De spera celi
Work 5	Author standard	Gerardus Cremonensis
	Title (ms.)	Theorica planetarum
	Incipit	Circulus egresse cuspidis
	Folio no.	50-
	Rubric	Theorica planetarum
	Additional copies	Other copies are in GOxfB Bodley 464, Bodley 300, Bodley 367, Bodley 472. For other MSS. see Mathematica 6 112.
Work 6	Author standard	`Abd al-Aziz ibn `Uthman al Kabisi \| Alcabitius \| Johannes Hispalensis
	Title (ms.)	In libro introductorio judiciorum astronomicorum
	Incipit	Postulata a domino prolixitate
	Printed copies	Printed at Venice (1482).
	Folio no.	60v-
	Rubric	Alkabitius in libro introductorio judiciorum astronomicorum facto ad Seydule regem, interpretatus a Johanne Hispanico
Work 7	Author standard	Johannes de Sacrobosco
	Title (ms.)	Algorismus
	Incipit	Omnia que a primitiva origine rerum
	Printed copies	J.O. Halliwell, Rara mathematica (1841) 1 (from another MS.).
	Folio no.	94v-
	Rubric	Ar<!>gorismus Johannis de Sacro Bosco
Work 8	Author standard	Alexander de Villa Dei
	Title (ms.)	Metrical arithmetic (286 lines)
	Incipit	Hec algorismus ars presens dicitur, in qua
	Printed copies	J.O. Halliwell, Rara mathematica (1841) 73-83.
	Additional remarks	Here without title.
	Folio no.	104-
Work 9	Title (ms.)	A prose work on arithmetic
	Incipit	Numerorum alius digitus alius articulus
	Folio no.	109-
Work 10	Title (ms.)	A short geometrical piece
	Incipit	Scire debes quod circulus duas habet medietates
	Folio no.	115-
Work 11	Author standard	Johannes de Sacrobosco
	Title (ms.)	On the sphere
	Incipit	Tractatum de sphera in 4 capitulis distinguimus
	Folio no.	122-
	Additional copies	As in GOxfB Digby 15, 19b-.
Work 12	Author standard	Johannes de Sacrobosco
	Title (ms.)	Noua compilatio
	Incipit	Compotus est sciencia considerans tempora
	Additional remarks	Written apparently in 1235.
	Folio no.	141-
	Rubric	Incipit noua compilatio magistri Johannis de sacro bosco
	Colophon	(174) (metrical) ...m. Christi bis cc quarto (sic) deno quater anno...
Work 13	Author standard	Alexander de Villa Dei
	Title (ms.)	Massa compoti
	Incipit	Aureus in Jano numerus
	Folio no.	175-
	Prolog	With prose prologue (aceph.)
	Additional copies	For another copy see GOxfB Fairfax 27, 32-.
Work 14	Author standard	Johannes de Sacrobosco
	Scribe(s)	In a hand different from that of the preceding items and somewhat later.
	Title (ms.)	On arithmetic (frag.)
	Incipit	In principio videndum est quid est algorismus.
	Folio no.	192-
	Additional texts	Followed by the same author's "cautele super algorismus".
	Blank leaves	187-91 (parchment)