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1301. Royal MS 12 G VII

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Royal MS 12 G VII
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TWO WORKS of Alhazen [Abu 'Ali ibn Hasan ibn al Haitham], in Latin, both printed by F. Risner, Basel, 1572, viz.: 1. Optica or 'liber de aspectibus' (so colophon). The translation, according to Wüstenfeld (Übersetzungen, &c., in Göttinger Abhandl. xxii, p. 111), is by a Pole named Witelo. In...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1302. Royal MS 12 G VIII

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Royal MS 12 G VIII
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Liber nouem iudicum
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This manuscript contains the Liber nouem iudicum, a twelfth-century compendium on judicial astrology. The text provides the statements of nine different authorities, mostly Arabic, on the topics of the twelve astrological houses. The colophon (f. 78r) states ‘Explicit liber nouem iudicum quem mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1303. Royal MS 12 G X

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Royal MS 12 G X
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'TABVLE magistri Iohannis Kyllingworth quondam socii collegii de Merton Oxonie': astronomical tables for 1400-1500, with canons, by John Killingworth al. Chillingworth. There were two fellows of Merton College so named, one in 1383 and the other in 1432 (d. 1445). Contents: 1. 'Tractatus docens...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1304. Royal MS 12 G XI

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Royal MS 12 G XI
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'OPVS magistri Alexandri de sancto Albano [Alex ander Neckam de naturis rerum' (cf. 12 F. XIV). In five books. Without Neckam's notes. Imperfect by loss of three leaves after f. 57, six after f. 167, and one at the end. Beg. as in 12 F. XIV A table of capitula, partly restored in a later hand, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1305. Royal MS 12 G XII

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Royal MS 12 G XII
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TREATISES on physiognomy and medicine of the 15th century, with the original fly-leaves prefixed, containing considerable fragments of an 11th cent. MS., viz.: 1. Seven leaves and part of an eighth from the Latin grammar in Anglo-Saxon of Ælfric, Abbot of Ensham, called Grammaticus (probably not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1306. Royal MS 12 G XIII

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Royal MS 12 G XIII
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'ANALYSIS seu resolutio perpetua in octo libros Politicorum Aristotelis', with dedicatory letter, also in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth, by Richard Hackluyt [al. Hakluyt, the geographer], student of Christ Church, Oxford, and newly appointed chaplain to Edward Stafford, Ambassador to France. Dated a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583
Extent:
1 item

1307. Royal MS 12 G XIV

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Royal MS 12 G XIV
Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis
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Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Letters from Rabanus Maurus to Louis, King of Germany (843-876), and to Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt (840-853); ff. 3r-5v: Table of chapters; ff. 6r-282v: Rabanus Maurus De universo seu De rerum naturis, an encyclopaedia arranged in 22 books, based on the 'Etymologies' o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
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Parchment codex

1308. Royal MS 13 A I

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Royal MS 13 A I
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Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
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The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

1309. Royal MS 13 A II

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Royal MS 13 A II
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GENERAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, made up of copious extracts from the second recension, completed in 1110, of the Historia Ecclesiastica of Hugo Floriacensis, or Hugh of S. Mary, a monk of Fleury (cf. Waitz in Mon, Germ. Hist. ix, p. 337). The first three quires are lost, f. 1 beginning, in the reig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

1310. Royal MS 13 A III

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Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
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Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
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Parchment codex

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