Chartres, Bibliothèque Municipale, 498 (142)
s. XII1.
Or.:Chartres, copied by Thierry of Chartres (d. 1151).
Prov.:Chartres, cathedral.
Parchment, 246 f., a single neat hand. This MS was largely destroyed in the fire of 26 May 1944, but a preexisting microfilm and a number of fragments of parchment survive (see http://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/). Several quires are missing between f. 140 and 141.
Liberal arts (Thierry of Chartres’s Eptateuchon, whose first volume is MS Chartres, BM, 497): table of contents, late medieval (1v); Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis, tr. Boethius (2r-12r); Boethius, Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos (12r-22r); Boethius, De categoricis syllogismis (22r-33v); Pseudo-Apuleius, Perhermenias (33v-37r); Boethius, De hypotheticis syllogismis (37r-52r); Cicero, Topica (52v-58r); Boethius, De topicis differentiis (58r-73r); Boethius, De divisione (73r-78r); Marius Victorinus, De definitionibus (78v-85r); Boethius, De arithmetica (86r-113v); Gerbert of Aurillac, Scholium ad Boethii arithmeticam institutionem (114r); Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, Book VII (114v-122rb); Euclid, Elementa, version ‘Adelard II’, excerpt (122rb-124vb); Boethius, De musica, I-II.20, end gone (125ra-140vb); Euclid, Elementa, version ‘Adelard II’, XIV.6-XV.5, beginning gone (141ra-141va); Pseudo-Boethius, Geometria I (141va-143ra); Agrimensores, various texts and excerpts (143rb-153rb); Gerbert of Aurillac (?), Isagoge geometriae, excerpt (153rb-154va); Pseudo-Boethius, Geometria II (155rb-166ra); tables and texts on the abacus and arithmetic (166v-169r); Hyginus, De astronomia, I-II (170va-173vb); Ptolemaica (174rb-197v); Algorismi [al-Khwārizmī], astronomical tables (198r-246r). Blank: 1r, 85v, 169v-170r, 246v.
Bibl. Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Départements, XI, Paris, 1890, 212-214; N. Bubnov, Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae opera mathematica (972-1003), Berlin, 1899,
174rb–197v
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‘<Intellectus climatum poli> sepissime requires si inveneris platos civitatis — (184rb) superiorem et inferiorem et addes aut deduces’ (followed by the tables f. 184v-197v). |
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