'DE ANALOGIA Anglicani sermonis, liber grammaticus': a treatise on English grammar, in Latin, by Thomas Tonkis, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 1612, and dedicated to Frederick V. Elector Palatine. The directions for pronunciation are unusually full and illustrated from several languages, a...
ASTRONOMICAL TABLES compiled by Lewis Caerleon, a prisoner in the Tower of London under Richard III (see Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib., s. n. Kaerlion, Dict. Nat. Biogr., s. n. Charlton, x, p. 128), with canons for their use, in Latin, viz.: 1. Tables for lunar and solar eclipses 'secundum dyametros...
'VOLVMEN DE NATVRALIBVS Aristotilis': a collection consisting of the Physics and other works, in Latin. To these a gloss, derived from Oxford lecture-notes, has been added by the scribe, whose name appears at f. 1 b, 'Quem librum scripsit Henricus de Renham et audiuit in scolis Oxonie et emendau...
'VOLVMEN DE NATVRALIBVS Aristotilis': the same books in the same translation, but in a different order. Acquired for the same monastery by the same prior. The annotations are probably another set of lecturenotes. They are slightly fuller, but have several gaps, probably where the scribe has miss...
The Compendium Medicinae with a collection of medical tracts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: A medical miscellany compiled by 'frater Johannes de Grenborough', for thirty years 'infirmarius' at [St Mary's] Coventry, containing the following texts: ff. 1r-4v: Recipes in Latin and Middle English, probably copied on flyleaves from the collection that follows; ff. 5r-127r: Gilbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century to the 2nd quarter of the 15th century
DIPTYCH presented to James I by William Segar, Garter King of Arms (knighted 1616). It consists of two tables of political maxims, followed by two elegiac couplets of complimentary dedication to King James, viz. : 1. ' Ptolomaei Tabella, alterius nostri aevi Ptolomei Jacobi D. g. (&c.) graph...
ARISTOTLE'S Physical Treatises, a 'volumen de naturalibus' similar to 12 G. II and 12 G. III and similarly annotated, doubtless from lectures. The books, however, are in a different order. The notes, in which the authorities quoted are the same as in 12 G. II, are marked by numerous heads, &...
CANON MEDICINAE by Avicenna [Abu 'Ali Husain ibn 'Abd Allah, ibn Sina] translated 'a magistro Gurrardo Cirmonensi in Toleto de Arabico in Latinum', i.e. by Gerardus Cremonensis the younger (Gherardo da Sabbionetta). In five books. Printed s.l. et a. (Cologne, 1470?), &c. Preface beg. 'In pri...
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...
'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...