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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1522

Date:

s. XIV¹.

Or.:

England (?).

Prov.:

St Mary Church Merton near London until 1456, when the MS was given by Johannes Kyngestone, prior of Merton, to Johannes Gysborne, canon of Merton and student in Oxford (cf. f. 202v: ‘Liber ecclesie beate Marie de Merton iuxta London in dioc<ese> Wynton<iensi>, traditus domino Iohanni Gydsborne canonico eiusdem loci et scolari Oxon<iense> per magistrum Iohannem Kyngestone priorem de Merton. predicta, in sacra theologica professorem, anno domini millesimo CCCC^mo quinquagesimo sexto’).

Parchment, 203 f., a single neat hand, richly decorated initials.

Astronomy: Alexander of Villedieu, Carmen de algorismo (3r-7v); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium (9ra-16v); Sacrobosco, Algorismus (17ra-24vb); Sacrobosco, De sphera (25ra-40rb); Algorismus de fractionibus ‘Cum multos de numeris tractatus vidisses…’ (40va-42vb); Sacrobosco, Computus (43ra-70ra); Robertus Anglicus, Quadrans vetus (70rb-78rb), with solar tables (78v-79v); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (80ra-101vb); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (102ra-110va); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (110vb-114va); Ptolemaica (114va-118va); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (118va-120rb); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (120rb-122rb); Prophatius Judeus, Quadrans novus (122rb-132r); Johannes de Harelbeke, Tractatus de spera solida (132va-148ra); Johannes Peckham, Perspectiva communis (148ra-175vb); Franco de Polonia, Tractatus de turketo (176ra-178vb); ‘Incipit tractatus chilindri quod horologium dicitur viatorum. Capitulum primum de formatione corporis chilindri… Investigantibus chilindri dispositionem…’ (178vb-181vb); Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, De magnete (181vb-187va); Alexander of Villedieu, Massa compoti (187va-199r); table of contents (199v). Blank: 1r-2v, 8 (except for added notes of computus f. 8v), 200-203 (except ex-libris f. 202v).

Bibl. W. R. Black, A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of the Manuscripts Bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole, Oxford, 1845, 1425-1430; O. Pächt, J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III: British, Irish, and Icelandic Schools, Oxford, 1973, 55 (no. 596).

114va–⁠118va	‘Incipit liber Thebit Benchorat de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― aut propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Expletus est liber Thebith filii Chore de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti.’ = Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1) . No glosses.

114va–⁠118va

‘Incipit liber Thebit Benchorat de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― aut propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Expletus est liber Thebith filii Chore de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti.’

= Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1)

. No glosses.