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University College MS. 41

Contents

1.
Anon, Definitiones sphæræ
Language(s): Latin
2.
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253, Compotus (lacks opening)
Language(s): Latin
3.
Profatius Judæus, approximately 1236-, Tractatus quadrantis
Language(s): Latin
4.
Johannes Sacrobosco, early 13th cent., De Algorismo
Language(s): Latin
5.
Johannes Sacrobosco, early 13th cent., De Sphaera
Language(s): Latin
6.
Thebit, ben Chorat, 836-901 [?], Liber … de hiis quae indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagestus
Language(s): Latin
7.
Grossteste, Robert, 1175?-1253 (attributed) & Gerard of Cremona, Theorica Planetarum
Language(s): Latin
8.
De compositione Cylindri, cum tabulis altitudinem solis exhibentibus in civitate Oxon. London. et Exon
Language(s): Latin
9.
De compositione quandrantis
Language(s): Latin
10.
Ars et operacio novi quadrantis, edited by Petrus de Sancto Audemaro
Language(s): Latin
11.
Canones super Almanach Prophatii [Alphonsine table]
Language(s): Latin
12.
Tabula radicum planetarum super meridiem Oxonie cuius longituo ab occidente est 51 gradus [Alphonsine table]
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: vellum

Decoration

Astrological diagrams.

Binding

Medieval white tawed leather over stiff vellum.

Accompanying Material

List of contents on f. 2v. College bookplates of 1650? and 1700? on inside of upper board. Note on the flyleaf reads: "Leaves from binding now University College MS. 207. Oct. '49". This is actually University College MS. 208. Evidence of the use of galls to lift our faded parts of the text, possibly by William Smith, c. 1700.

History

Origin: 14th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Note on f. 2v reads: "Iste lib[er] p[er]tinet [communitati] ff[rat]rum Salopi[a]e."

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 12

Availability

For permission to use images of this manuscript, please contact University College Library: library@univ.ox.ac.uk

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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