Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F.IV.18 Short title Compilation of mathematical, astronomical and philosophical tracts Century 14 Language Latin Previous owners from the Carthusian Library in Basel Material Membr. Format 8 Height × width 173 x 127 No. of leaves 89 Numbering ff. Cover bound in half-calf over boards No. of columns 2 cols. Printed catalogs B.B. Hughes, Medieval Mathematical Latin Writings in the University Library Basel (1972) 30-1 #22.0 Source Hughes (1972) Type of source cat. Source’s source insp. Work 1Author standard Johannes de Sacrobosco | Robertus Anglicus Title (standard) De spera Incipit (2ra) Una scientia est nobilior alia melior alia duabus de causis Subject 1 Astronomy Printed copies (crit. ed.) Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators (1949) 143-98 Additional remarks A table of contents, in contemporary and later hands, identifies the material. (This is reproduced in Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators (1949) 60-1.) Item no. 22.1 Folio no. 2ra-17vb Explicit (17vb) per prius et posterius ut libre satis declarantur. Colophon Finita est ipsa compilatio super materiam de celestia. <...> quam composuit magister Robertus Anglicus et finivit anno domini 1271. Sola exeunte in uno gradu tauri, scorpione exeunte ascendente. Deo gracias. Explicit. Amen. T & K TK 1596 (this ms not mentioned) Additional information Sarton II 993-4 Work 2Author standard Robertus Linconiensis Title (standard) De lineis angulis et figuris seu de fractionibus et reflectionum radiorum Incipit (25ra) Vtilitas consideracionis linearum angulorum et figurarum est maxima Subject 1 Mathematics Item no. 22.2 Folio no. 25ra-26va Explicit (26va) per varietatem linearum angulorum et figurarum. Colophon Explicit tractatus linconiensis de fractionibus et reflexionibus radiorum. Amen. T & K TK 1627 (this ms not mentioned) Additional information Sarton II 583-6 Work 3Title (standard) Practica geometrie Incipit (26vb) (G)eometrie due sunt partes principales theorica et practica Subject 1 Astronomy | Mathematics Additional remarks This is not to be confused with Dominicus de Claviso's Practica geometriae Item no. 22.3 Folio no. 26vb-30rb Explicit (30rb) Et si totam superficiem columpne scire volueris. T & K TK 585 (this ms not mentioned) Additional information Thorndike, The Sphere ... (1949) 61
