Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian Museum 461
s. XIVex-XVin (1384 for f. 38r-64v; 1412 for f. 72r-114r; the year 1411 mentioned f. 1v).
Or.:f. 38r-64v copied in Rouen by one Robertus Nobillart (f. 64v: ‘…translata et finita anno dominice incarnationis 1384o mensis autem Aprilis die 16a per Robertum Nobillart tunc temporis Rothomagi [Rouen] residentem pro cuius anima si placeat vobis…’); f. 72-115 copied by Johannes de Moerbeke (f. 114r: ‘Scriptus per Jo<hannem> de Moorbeke anno 1412o, 26a die Augusti. Quatinus (?) omnium creaturarum creator laudetur’).
Paper, IV+183+IVa f., several hands, one of which copied f. 11r-34r. Elements are missing between f. 10-11, 65-66, 71-72 and 107-108.
Astronomy, music, astrology, medicine, arithmetic and computus: astronomical notes (1v-2r); Jafar, De pluviis et ventis (3v-4r); Liber novem iudicum, excerpt ‘Aomar: Ex conventu itaque vel oppositione vel ex Solis…’ (4r-6r); Albumasar, Introductorium maius, tr. John of Seville, VI.1: ‘De ymaginibus ascendentibus in faciebus signorum…’ (6r-8v); Astronomia Ypocratis (8v-10v); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum, beginning gone (11r-11v); Thebit Bencora, De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (11v-13r); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (13v-16v); canons of astronomical tables ‘Canon inventionis singnum (?). Cuiuslibet planete…’ (17r-19v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (20v-26v); ‘Quia omnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant et maxime res supremas…’ (27r-31r); Ptolemaica (31v-34r); ‘Brevis tractatus super Musicam Boetii…’ (34v-37r); John of Murs, Tractatus de proportionibus ‘Proportionum musicalium per venerande memorie magistrum…’ (38r-42r); John of Murs, Musica speculativa (42v-64v), with representation of the monochord (65r); notes of music (65v); treatise of astrological medicine, whose beginning and end are gone (66ra-71vb); Haly Embrani, De electionibus horarum (72r-101v); Guillelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa (102r-107v); Abraham Avenezra, De luminaribus, tr. Henry Bate of Mechelen (108r-114r); ‘Notabilia utilia medicis. Primo notandum differentiam inter urinam…’ (114v-115r); Johannes de Parma, Practicella (115v-117v); Hermes, Liber de accidentibus (118r-119v); algorismus ‘Articulus (?) est decenarius et omnis constans ex denariis…’ (120r-131r); notes of arithmetic ‘Nota de progressione…’ (131v-133v); computus tables (134r-140r); notes of computus (140v-142v); ‘Incipit compotus. Compotus iste dividitur in sex parte…’ (142v-152v); ‘Incipit secundus compotus. Ad inveniendum festa mobilia…’ (152v-162v); ‘Conpotus est scientia considerans tempora…’ (163r-182v); notes in English (182v); notes (183r-183v). Blank: 1r, 2v-3r (except for added astronomical notes f. 2v), 20r. F. Ir-IVv and Iar-IVav contain a register of royal letters in a late-13th c. hand, perhaps of Edward I (see Young/Henderson Aitken, 384). Blank: 37v.
Bibl. J. Young, P. Henderson Aitken, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1908, 381-384; The Theory of Music, IV: C. Meyer, M. Huglo, N. C. Phillips, Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500 in Great Britain and in the United States of America, München, 1992, 22-23; L. Moulinier-Brogi, Guillaume l’Anglais, le frondeur de l’uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe siècle), Genève, 2011, 204-205.
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31v–34r
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‘Incipit Thebit de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis — propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Explicit Thebit.’ |
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