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Arundel MS 268
- Record Id:
- 040-002039551
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00035c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153393.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 268
- Title:
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Scientific miscellany
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039551 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 268 : Scientific miscellany - Contains:
- Arundel MS 268, ff 1-40 : Miscellany of astronomical treatises
Arundel MS 268, ff 41-74 : Miscellany of astronomical treatises
Arundel MS 268, ff 75-103 : Miscellany of astronomical texts
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- 032-002039280[0269]/040-002039551
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment and paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153393.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: ff. 103 (+ four unfoliated paper flyleaves).
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Marbled end papers.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Johannes de Harlebek, 1303 (?): inscription, possibly autograph (f. 67).
The Carthusians of Mainz: 14th-century inscription: ‘liber carth(usiensium) mogu(n)c(iam)’ (f. 1).
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician; Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented the book to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp, ‘Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.’ (f. 1).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Francis J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956), pp. 25, 147.
M.C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi hispanorum, pars prior, Acta Salmanticensia: Filosofia y Letras, 13: 1 (Salamanca: University de Salamanca, 1958), no. 977.
R.D. Williams and T.S. Pattie, Virgil: His poetry through the ages (London, British Library, 1982), p. 140.
M.D. Reeve, 'Aratea' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983), pp. 18-24 (pp. 21-22) (this manuscript as 'A').
R.H. Rouse, 'Cicero: Da natura deorum, De divinatione, Timaeus, de fato, Topica, Paradoxa Stoicorum, Academica priora, De legibus' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983), pp. 124-28 (p. 127 n. 14).
Sigrid Krämer and Michael Bernhard, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernard Bischoff, (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II: Köln-Zyfflich (1989), p. 533.
Marco Baglio, Mirella Ferrari, and Marco Petoletti, 'Montecassino e gli umanisti', in Libro, scrittura, documento della civilità monastica e conventuale nel basso medioevo (secoli XIII-XV): Atti del Convegno di studio, Fermo (17-19 settembre 1997), ed. by G. Avarucci and others (Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1997), pp. 183–239 and pls. 1-2.
Richard Lemay, ‘Nouveautés fugaces dans des texts mathématiques du XIIe siècle: Un essae d’abjad latin avorté’, in Sic itur ad astra: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Festschrift für den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70. Geburtstag, ed by Menso Folkerts and Richard Lorch (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), pp. 376-92 (pp. 384–85, 387-90).
Elly Dekker, Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford: University Press, 2013), p. 341.
- Exhibitions:
- Sicily: Culture and Conquest, British Museum, April 2016 - August 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Cicero, Aratea. Exhibited: Sicily: Culture and Conquest, British Museum, London, 21 April 2016 - 14 August 2016.