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Royal MS 12 G X
- Record Id:
- 040-002106808
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000384
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 G X
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'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 continuare radices tabularum Kylyngworth.' Beg. 'Pro continuacione temporum'. f. 1.
2. 'Canones tabularum facilis composicionis almanak.' Beg. 'Multum conferre dinoscitur non solum astronomis'. Incomplete, wanting cap. vi. Another copy is in Arundel MS. 66, f. 1. f. 1.
These two articles were perhaps intended to follow art. 3.
3. 'Canones magistri Iohannis Kyllingworth ab ipsomet editi tam de composicione quam de operacione et composicione Almanak per easdem.' Beg. 'Restat de composicione tabularum reuolucionum'; ends 'continuando ad finem anni, &c.' f. 2.
4. The tables themselves, viz.:-(a) showing the motions of all the planets with 'radices' (constants) for 1400-1500. f. 3;-(b) Addition-table (of sexagesimal arithmetic) and multiplication-table (to 9 x 62). Other copies of the tables are in Sloane MS. 407, f. 57, Arundel MS. 66, f. 3. Most of the tables are marked 'rele[git]ur', as having been revised. f. 32 b.
Vellum; ff. l2. 16 in. x 11 in. XV cent. Gatherings of 10 leaves (i2). At-the end is the note (cf. 12, G. 1) 'Ego Nicolaus Fraizerus emi hunc librum a doctore Laidum pastori sancte Fide in diuo Pauli ecclesia Londinens anno 1535, die-25 Juni'. Afterwards be longed to [John, Lord] Lumley (f. 1). Lumley cat. f. 316; cat. of 1666, f. 8 b ; omitted in CMA.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106808 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 G X : 'TABVLE magistri Iohannis Kyllingworth quondam socii collegii de Merton Oxonie': astronomical tables for 1400-1500, with… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1028]/040-002106808
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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