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Royal MS 12 G I
- Record Id:
- 040-002106799
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x00037b
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 G I
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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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 Ricardi [Wallyngford] abbatis de Sancto Albano (1326-1334), libro suo primo de composicione Albionis . . . per me Lodowycum facta anno Christi 1482o '. At the foot of f. 1 is a note about other tables composed by the author during his incarceration. These are now in Sloane MS, 1697, f. 25. f. 1.
2. Canons for the above. Beg. 'Postquam nouas tabulas eclipsium composuerim'. As an example is given the computation of an eclipse on 16 Mar. 1485, with the author's observation of it made in the Tower. f. 5 b.
3. 'De modo calculandi eclipses geometrice sine tabulis': a tract beg. 'Quicumque voluerit quantitatem et durationem'. Colophon, 'Explicit opus m. Lodowyci Caerlyon in eclipsibus lune et solis'. f. 7 b.
4. Rules 'pro diuersitate aspectus lune in longitudine et latitudine calculanda'. Beg. 'Paucas premittam supposiciones'. Subscribed 'Lewys'. Followed by tables. f. 9.
5. Alternative canons to art. 2 by the same author, composed (see note on f. 6) before his imprisonment. f. 15.
Vellum; ff. i + 15. 12 in x 9 in. Circ. A.D. 1485. Gatherings of 8 leaves. Initials not inserted. On f. 15 b is a note 'Ego Nicolaus Fraizerus (cf. 12 G. X) emi hunc librum ab doctore Laidun [Richard Layton?] pastori sancte Fide in diuo (sic) Pauli ecclesia Londinensi [S. Faith in the crypt of S. Paul's] anno 1535 die 25 Juni'. Afterwards belonged (f. 1) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat, f. 331 ; cat. of 1666, f. 8 b; CMA. 8511.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106799 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 G I : ASTRONOMICAL TABLES compiled by Lewis Caerleon, a prisoner in the Tower of London under Richard III (see Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib.,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1019]/040-002106799
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1480
- End Date:
- 1490
- Date Range:
- c 1485
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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