Cambridge, University Library, Gg 6.3 (1572)
s. XIV (probably written in various stages from the beginning to the middle, even to the second half of the 14th c., cf. tables from 1310 onwards f. 37r-40r and from 1311 onwards f. 105r-107r; almanac 1324-1343 f. 193r-200r; planetary tables 1348 f. 214r-217r; the years 1349 and 1350 mentioned f. 213v; the equatorium text f. 217v-220v was composed c. 1350).
Or.:England, most probably Oxford (Norwich cathedral acc. Greatrex, but this is not substantiated).
Prov.:Anthony Rous, 16th c. (f. 2r); given to the University of Cambridge by W. Crow in 1656.
Parchment, 382 f., several careless hands. Many folia are bound in disorder and others have suffered water-damage.
Astronomy and astrology: on plants ‘Circa instans negotium de simplicibus medicinis…’ (1ra-1rb); astronomical tables for Oxford (1v-44v), including John Maudith’s ascension tables dated 1310 (37r-40r); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus de quatuor tabulis, attr. John Maudith (45r-48v); star table (48v); canons for solar eclipses ‘Hic incipit canon eclipsis Solis. Si volueris querere tempus eclipsis Solis…’ (48v-54v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus de sectore (54v-80v and 285r-287r); canons of Toledan tables (91r-103v); astrology ‘Planeta levis est qui applicat et vim donat…’ (103v-105r); syzygy tables from 1311, some for Paris (105r-107r); ‘Incipit canon de eclipsi Lune. Ad investigandum eclipsim Lune…’ (107v-108r); astrological compilation partly based on the Alchandreana ‘De domino anni extrahendo. Oportet te primum scire dominum anni…’ (108r-123v); Toledan-type tables, with canons (124r-132r); syzygy tables for Novara, with canons mentioning Paris and Oxford ‘Magister Campanus inter cetera opera sua astronomie…’ (132va-133va); Robert Grosseteste (?), De impressionibus aeris (134r-138v); Roger of Hereford, De quatuor partibus iudiciorum astronomie (139r-146v); ‘Nota: Si multiplicare volueris quemcumque numerum…’ (147r-147v); Roger of Hereford, Liber de tribus generalibus iudiciis astronomie (147v-153r); ‘De declinatione stelle ab equinoxiali inveniendo et eius gradum cum quo celum mediat. Si ecliptica intercipiatur…’ (153v-154r); Zael, Liber iudiciorum (154v-192v); Prophatius Judeus, Almanach, for the years 1324-1343 (193r-200r); Robert Grosseteste, De sphera (200v-205v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (206r-212r); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis, three tables from IV.8-11, with notes (212r-212v); Ptolemaica (213r); astrological and astronomical notes (213r-213v); planetary tables 1348 (214r-217r); equatorium ‘Quia nobilissima scientia astronomie…’ different from John of Ligneres’s treatise bearing the same incipit (217v-220v, ed. Falk); William Rede, Theorica planetarum ‘Ut plenius intellegantur imagines…’ (221r-222v); ‘Incipiunt quedam notabilia experimenta theoricarum predictarum’ (223r-226v); astronomical tables (226v-230v); Campanus of Novara, De quadratura circuli (231r-232v); ‘Hec ars debet (?) artem multiplicandi…’ (233r-233v); ‘Ad theorice planetarum intelligencia… Explicit theorica planetarum m<agistri> Ioh<annis> Liners’ (233v-260r); ‘Incipiunt demonstrationes questionum theorice planetarum per modum geometricum date a Petro de Mistina (?) scribente easdem demonstrationes magistro Iohanni de Iaduno…’ (260r-270r); on eclipses ‘Si quantitatem diametri umbre…’ (271ra-272vb); John Maudith (?), Ars et operatio novi quadranti (273r-284r); ‘Corporalis mundi machine consistit in 2, scilicet in natura celesti et in natura elementari…’ (284va-284vb, a text dealing with celestial distances, not a fragment of Richard of Wallingford’s Declarationes supra kalendarium regine, as in North, II, 373-374); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus de sectore (285r-287r, see f. 54v-80v above); Euclid, Elementa, ed. Campanus of Novara, beginning of Book I (287v-288r); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis, incomplete and in disorder (288v-303v); ‘Incipit algorismus in novis numeris. Quia autem superius dictum est de numeris quadratis…’ (309ra-310vb); ‘Liber quantitatum mensurandum per numerum. Quia cuiuslibet quantitatis notitia…’ (310vb-315vb); ‘De regulis generalibus algorismi ad solvendum omnes questiones propositas…’ (315vb-319va); ‘Iste tractatus vocatur tractatus arismetrice…’ (319vb-321vb); Petrus de Sancto Audomaro, Tractatus de semissis, attr. Prophatius Judeus (322ra-330rb); ‘De catis. Quod cata coniuncta potest haberi…’ (330va); Toledan tables (332v-337r); conjunction tables (337v-352r); notes ‘Si vis ut socius qui ludit totum…’ (352v); Toledan tables (358r-359v); canons for eclipses (360va-366r), with tables (366v-371r); ‘Nota de equatione dierum secundum Tholomeum in Almagesti l<ibro> 3 c<apitulo> 10’ (371v-372v); table of sines (373r-375v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis, table from IV.13 (376r-376v); Jordanus de Nemore, De numeris datis, III-IV.19 (377r-381v). Blank: 81r-90v, 270v, 304r-308v, 331r-332r, 353r-357v, 360r, 382.
Bibl. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, III, Cambridge, 1858, 214-215; J. D. North, Richard of Wallingford: An Edition of His Writings with Introduction, English Translation and Commentary, Oxford, 1976, I, 16-18, and II, 39-41, 129, 373-374, 381-383 and 385; B. B. Hughes, Jordanus de Nemore: De numeris datis, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1981, 24-25; F. S. Pedersen, Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro opera quadrivalia, København, 1983-1984, II, 655-656 and 735; C. Panti, Moti, virtù e motori celesti nella cosmologia di Roberto Grossatesta. Studio ed edizione dei trattati De sphaera, De cometis, De motu supercelestium, Firenze, 2001, 217; J. Greatrex, ‘Horoscopes and Healing at Norwich Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle Ages’, in The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R.B. Dobson. Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium, eds C. M. Barron, J. Stratford, Donington, 2002, 170-177: 172-173; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 100-101; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (
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‘Opus imaginum secundum consilium Tholomei. Cum volueris ligare latrones ne intrent domum, facies ymaginem viri ex ere cum ascendente prima facie Arietis et sic dices — quin frangatur urna eius.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De imaginibus super facies signorum (B.14)
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