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Royal MS 12 G VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106806
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000382
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165176126.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 G VIII
- Title:
- Liber nouem iudicum
- Scope & Content:
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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 missit soldanus babilonie imperatori federico tempore quo et magnus chalif misit magistrum theodorum eidem imperatori federico’ (The book of the Nine Judges, which the Sultan of Babilonia sent to the Emperor Frederick at the same time as the Great Caliph sent Master Theodore to the same Emperor Frederick).
ff. 1r-78r: Liber nouem iudicum.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial, effaced, with a figure holding a book and pointing to a star (f. 1r).
Astronomical diagrams (ff. 7v, 19v, 25v, 42r, 45v).
Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing (f. 18v, 23r, 61v, 62v, 68r, 74v).
Small initials alternating between red with blue pen-work and blue with red pen-work throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106806 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 G VIII : Liber nouem iudicum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1026]/040-002106806
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165176126.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 260 mm.
Foliation: ff. 78 (plus one unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end).
Collation: i-ix8, x6.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. White leather binding with gold tooling. The initials ‘M.B.’ in gold on the front.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy
?Humphrey Hall, perhaps fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and M.D. of Pavia: his ownership inscription 'In utraque fortuna fides. 1560, Sept. 10. Humfredus Halle' (f. 1r).
John Lumley, first Baron Lumley (c. 1533–1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his signature ‘Lumley’ (f. 1r). The manuscript appears in the 1609 Lumley Library catalogue (The Lumley Library, ed. by Sears and Johnson, p. 231, no. 2020).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at https://bl.uk/manuscripts/
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, ed. by George F. Warner and J.P. Gilson, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), vol. 2, p. 72.
C. H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Medieval Science, ed. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), 246.
Francis J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation. A Critical Bibliography (Berkley, LA: University of California Press, 1956), 15.1 and 16.1.
The Lumley Library: The catalogue of 1609, ed. by Jayne Sears and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 231, no. 2020.
Charles Burnett, ‘An Apocryphal Letter from the Arabic Philosopher Al-Kindi to Theodore, Frederick II’s Astrologer, Concerning Gog and Magog, the Enclosed Nations, and the Scourge of the Mongols’, in Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996), pp. 151-167 (p. 155).
- Exhibitions:
- Sicily: Culture and Conquest, British Museum, April 2016 - August 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)