'Figurae divisionis' including notes on precious stones, birds and trees from India, Egypt, Arabia, and Africa; Title 'Incia habet lapidem', incipit: 'Carbunculum'.
An anonymous treatise on precious stones; imperfect?; Rubric 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum preciosorum quem scripsit Bar/lamazar [or Ga/lamazar] Thesaurarius regis Babiloniae ipso presente et / preci/piente', incipit: '[L]apidum preciosorum diversa sunt genera . et diversi colores', explicit: 'an...
An anonymous treatise on precious stones; imperfect? The text is possibly an extract from De virtutibus lapidum; incipit: 'Amethistus est lapis colorem habens ut flores viole', explicit: 'sic mollificantur / lapides preciosi ut vitrum'. The number '116' in red in upper margin of f. 105r.
Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones; Canons for the use of the astronomical tables (an adaptation of the Alfonsine tables) drawn up by Jean de Lignières (Johannes de Lineriis) in Paris in 1321. Includes a note (f. 89r) referring to the works of John Holdrak, corrected in Holbrok in the ...
Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), De quindecim stellis
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Hermes Trismegistus, De quindecim stellis. A treatise on planets and stars. Rubric 'Incipit liber hermetis tractans de .15. stellis et de .15. lapidibus et de .15. herbis / et de .15. figuris', incipit: 'Inter multa alia bona que antiqui patres / sapientissimi narraverunt', explicit 'et per hunc...
Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune
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Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune; Rubric 'Hic incipit liber ymaginum translatus ab Hermete, i Mercurie qui latine praestigium mercu/rii appellatur, heliemen in ling/ua Arabica', incipit: 'Cum enim sapiens indagator veritatis', explicit: 'dicitur thamahaleth. Explicit', rubri...
Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus
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Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus; a book of instructions for making talismans that was very popular in the Middle Age, and was translated by Adelard of Bath and by John of Spain. Begins imperfect in the middle of the third part of the tract, incipit: 'fuerit sol in aliqua digni...
Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis
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Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis; composed in 1288, corrected in 1301. The Latin version of a treatise on the canons of a new quadrant by Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (1236-1305), a Jewish scholar and astronomer of Marseilles and Montpel...
Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis. A treatise relating to the properties of sixty-two stones written in verse by Marbod (1035-1123), bishop of Rennes, poet and writer, who made large use of material found in a 5th- or 6th-century Latin translation by Damigeron of a previous work i...