PAL

Jordanus


Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb.276

Additional shelfmarks Pieralisi I, 365-6
Old shelfmarks Barb.X. 94; <3453>
Century 15
Language Latin
Composite ms. 2 parts
No. of ms. part I (1r-110r), II (111r-127r
Material Chart.
No. of leaves 129
Printed catalogs T. Silverstein, Medieval Latin Scientific Writings in the Barberini Collection (1957) 73-7
Publ. descriptions Steinschneider, Bullettino, XX(1887),12-13 and n.2
Source Silverstein (1957)
Type of source cat.
Source’s source insp.
Work 1Scribe(s) Johannes de Calomonte Flandrinus (48r, 64r)
Precise date 1473
No. of ms. part I (1r-110r)
Watermarks Crossbow enclosed in an ellipse
No. of hands 1
No. of columns 1 col.
Width of columns 153 x 097
Lineation 32 lines
Initials etc. Rubr. in black and red
Decorations Tables and figures in black and red
Marginal annotations "In alio erat sic" (12r, 20v, 31v); "Ego Johannes de calomonte./ Ista littera id est super .e. cuspidem erectis angulis. rarissime invenitur in exemplaribus nisi forte tamquam glosa, vel tamquam littera alterius positionis." (48r); "Ego iohannes de calomonte. Pauca exempla habent hanc litteram Et linea iacens intelligatur erecta." (87r)
Work 2No. of ms. part II (111r-127r)
Watermarks Cardinal`s
No. of hands 1
No. of columns 1 col.
Width of columns 150 x 120
Lineation 30 lines
Marginal annotations Spaces for rubr., initials and, 116v, for table or figure, but none executed.
Work 3Author standard Johannes de Calomonte
Title (standard) Tractatus quadrantis
Incipit (78r) <D>Icto de compositione quadrantis. Dicendum est de utilitatibus et operationibus.'que habentur per eum. <S>I igitur velis scire altitudinem solis in omni hora per quadrantem... | (86r) <S>ecunda pars mensurandi huius doctrine. que est planimetria. habet duas partes. | GEometrie due sunt partes. theorica .s. (sup. lin. add. corrector)et practica. Practica est.'que sola mentis speculatione...
Publ. descriptions Ed. Tannery, Notices et extraits des mss. de la Bibl. Nat., XXXV (1896),561-632; Isis, XXXIV, 467-9; Isis, XXXVII, 150-3 (for problem of authorship)
Item no. e
Folio no. 72r-87v (I)
Rubric De mensuratione plani. Que est secunda pars | INcipit tractatus quadrantis (pars prima) | PArs secunda. De utilitatibus et operationibus quadrantis // De altitudinem solis invenienda.
Explicit (77r) Et margarita perforata moveatur super filum de loco ad locum. Et erit completa compositio quadrantis. | (87v) <S>I autem fuerit...
Additional information Text ends incomplete at bottom of 87v