Lu libru di la maniscalchia, the Italian (Sicilian dialect) translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (imperfect at the beginning), incipit: 'Cum zo sia cosa ki intra tuti li animali'. Edition of the text: G. de Gregorio, ‘Il codice de Cruyllis-Spatafora’, Zeits...
Veterinary tract in Italian (Sicilian dialect? with some Latin words and terms) entitled here (f. 40r) 'La medicina deli cavali'; Preface incipit (f. 41r): 'Dozarmu alluremi fia crucem + prima et + ingatur ecus passus'; with a table of contents (ff. 41v-43r); incipit (f. 43r): 'Allu nomi dideu i...
Works on mathematics: Boethius, De arithmetica. Scholia in Germanicum Sangermanensia. Boethius, De musica (imperfect). Treatise on Euclidean geometry attributed to Boethius; Geometria incerti auctoris; Mensura fistularum.
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Boethius's De arithmetica,with interlinear and marginal glosses. Decoration: Initials in brown ink. Several drawings of geometric figures in brown or red ink (ff. 6r, 6v, 15r, 15v, 17r, 18r, 20r). Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, with a full page diagram added at...
Boethius's De musica (imperfect), incipit: 'Quod infinitatem vocum humana...' (book 1, chap. 13-16); contains fragments of book 2; explicit: 'Liquet igitur eam proportionem in cclvi...' Decoration: Initials in brown ink, some tinted in red.
Euclidean Geometry in Latin attributed to Boethius.
Scope & Content:
Contents: This geometrical compilation was one of the fundamental textbook in geometry until the translation of Euclid's Elements. It was composed in the first half of the 11th century from several sources. During the Middle Ages it was attributed to Boethius, that is why since the edition of...
Contents: ff. 68r-73r: A compilation of practical geometry written in the 9th or 10th century, generally called Geometria incerti auctoris since Nicolaus Bubnov's edition (see: Nicolaus Bubnov, Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae Opera Mathematica (972-1003) (Berlin: R. Friedländer and Sohn), pp...
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville (ff. 1r-57r); Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville (ff. 58r-110r); Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated ...
