MS. Bodl. 300
Summary Catalogue no.: 2474
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Imperfect.
F. S. Benjamin, Campanus of Novara and medieval planetary theory (1971), sig. b (desc. pp. 60-1)Ends unfinished 'inducet nomina alterius, scilicet poete, ideoque deride' on col. i of fol. 98v.
Aristoteles Latinus, vol. 33, sig. Oy (p. xxv).At this point the following treatises are now lost but occur in the old list of contents-'Canones J. de Liverys: item Canones magistri Redde: item Canon super tabulas equacionis domorum magistri J⟨ohannis⟩ Walter: item Canones Alfonci: item Canon de ortu etc. qui prius'.
The first three (?) leaves are lost. The author was a pupil of Johannes de Liveriis (fol. 108r, col. 2).
Version B (Meyer, 2003; cf. E. Witkowska-Zaremba, Musica Muris i nurt spekulatywny w muzykografii średniowiecznej, Studia Copernicana 32 (Warszawa 1992), p. 147)
Printed by Klaus-Jürgen Sachs, Mensura fistularum: die Mensurierung der Orgelpfeifen im Mittelalter (Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1970) as 'Prima fistula ad', pp. 99-113.
Printed as two separate texts by Sachs, 'Primam fistulam quantae' (pp. 116-7, 118-9, 122-3, 124-5) and 'Circa latitudinem' (pp. 140-1)
Followed (fol. 119va-b) by some musical notanda.
In three parts.
Prologue only, here without title
Ends imperfect.
eTK 1265HDealing with proportions.
Ends imperfect
The following treatises were originally at the end of this volume--'Tabule Alphonsi: item Tabule magistri J. Holbruke prime & secunde [see art. 15. Cr.]: item Tabule numerorum proporcionabilium: item Tabule Johannis de Liuerys: item Tabule equacionis domorum: item Tabule magistri Redde'. A note by sir Thomas Bodley on fol. iv calls attention to the defects in this volume. The outer margins of foll. 75 and 79 are cut off.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 46-52 lines; frame-ruled in ink, c. 265 × 170 mm. , 10 mm. between columns.
Binding
Blue leather over medieval (?) boards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Clare College (formerly University Hall, formerly Clare Hall): 'Ex dono magistri Yngham quondam huius collegii socius' (fol. 1v). John de Ingham was fellow of Clare Hall in 1402 and 1403 (BRUC 326). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Bought for the library with a gift of Sir Robert Cecil, c. 1605. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue with limited additional description.