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Cambridge, University Library, Mm 2.18 (2313)

Date:

s. XIV².

Or.:

MS commissioned by Geoffrey of Wighton (fl. 1358-1365), Franciscan friar at the Oxford convent (cf. f. Iv: ‘Iste liber est fratris Galfridi de Wyghtone quem fecit scribi de elemosinis amicorum suorum’).

Prov.:

Sir Thomas Knyvett (d. 1618); John Moore (d. 1714); George I, who presented the MS to the University Library, Cambridge, in 1715.

Parchment, I+344 f. (foliation omits 216, 242-244, 249-250, 275 and 330-331), a single neat hand, painted initials at beginning of each section, decorated initials.

Astronomy, mathematics and various: table of contents, medieval (Iv); Ptolemaica (1ra-49vb); Abbacus [Ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī], Liber Iudei super decimum Euclidis (49vb-65rb); Algorismi [al-Khwārizmī], Algebra (65rb-69vb); Albubater [Abū Bakr], Liber mensurationum (69vb-76vb); Liber Saydi Abuothmi (76vb-77ra); Liber Aderameti (77ra-77vb); Liber augmenti et diminutionis (77vb-82va); Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi (83ra-103rb); Ethicus philosophus (103ra-115vb); Frontinus, Strategemata (115vb-131vb); Clement of Lanthony, Sententie ex patribus (131vb-133vb); Macrobius, Saturnalia, excerpts (133vb-145va); Gerald of Wales, De mirabilibus, excerpts 145va-147vb); De vita S. Zozime (147vb-148ra); Martial, Epigrams (148ra-149va); John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, excerpts (149va-165rb); Entheticus (165rb-169ra); Ovid, Metamorphoses, summary (169ra-220ra); comm. on Ovid’s Epistolae (220ra-224va); Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta (224va-268rb); Boethius, De consolatione Philosophiae, with comm. Nicolaus Trivet (268va-344vb).

Bibl. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, IV, Cambridge, 1861, 132-138; B. B. Hughes, ‘Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of al-Khwārizmī’s al-Jabr: A Critical Edition’, Mediaeval Studies 48 (1986), 211-263: 221-222; Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, I: Great Britain and the Republic of Northern Ireland, eds M. T. Gibson, L. Smith, London, 1995, 47; P. Binski, P. Zutshi, Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, 2011, 161-162 (no. 170); M. Moyon, La géométrie de la mesure dans les traductions arabo-latines médiévales, Turnhout, 2017, 132-133; M. Moyon, Le Liber augmenti et diminutionis. Contribution à l’histoire des mathématiques médiévales, Stuttgart, 2023, 4.

1ra–⁠49vb	‘Liber Ieber de astrologia [title in upper margin, hand of the scribe]. Sciencia species habet quarum melior post scienciam — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est eius declaratio. Completus est tractatus nonus et est ultimus libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’ = Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2) . Preface, 1ra-1va; I, 1va-6vb; II, 6vb-13rb; III, 13rb-15vb; IV, 15vb-20vb; V, 20vb-28vb; VI, 28vb-35vb; VII, 35vb-43ra; VIII, 43ra-45va; IX, 45va-49vb. A few marginal notes by the scribe.

1ra–⁠49vb

‘Liber Ieber de astrologia [title in upper margin, hand of the scribe]. Sciencia species habet quarum melior post scienciam — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est eius declaratio. Completus est tractatus nonus et est ultimus libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’

= Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)

. Preface, 1ra-1va; I, 1va-6vb; II, 6vb-13rb; III, 13rb-15vb; IV, 15vb-20vb; V, 20vb-28vb; VI, 28vb-35vb; VII, 35vb-43ra; VIII, 43ra-45va; IX, 45va-49vb. A few marginal notes by the scribe.