A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

Hertford College MS. 3

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1r-v)
Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum
(fols. 1v-3v)
Ptolemaica
(fol. 3v)
Pseudo-Thebit Bencora

De motu octavae spherae

Rubric: Incipit Thebith Benchorach de motu octave spere
(fol. 6)
Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum
Incipit: Ptholomeus et alii sapientes
(fol. 7)
Theorica planetarum Gerardi
Incipit: Circulus eccentricus
(fol. 11v)
Berengarius

De horologio viatorum

(fol. 13)

Regulae astrologicae de motibus caelestibus

(fol. 27)
Canones regularum Alphonsi per Joh. de Saxonia ordinati
Incipit: Tempus est mensura motus
(fol. 37)

Lectura instrumenti desiderati, abbreviata a multis superfluitatibus in ipsa lectura et in tabula mediorum motuum planetarum in fine ipsius dictae lecturae posita ... 'translata ab idiomate Hispano in Latinum per me Garsiam Arnaldi de Suescun de regno Navarrae Parisiis studentem A.D. 1450 ...' .

Incipit: Primum capitulum est de nominibus figurarum instrumenti desiderati
(fol. 44)

Canones Arzachelis in tabulas Toletanas a M. Gerardo Cremonensi ordinati

Incipit: Quoniam uniuscujusque actionis
Explicit: eclipsis si Deus voluerit
Final rubric: Expliciunt canones sive regulae in tabulas Toletanas compilate a magistro Gerardo Cremonense; Deo gratis

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 77 leaves, 4to

Decoration

Penwork.

Diagrams.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

'liber aulae Magd. Oxon. 1673, ex dono Matth. [recte Nath.?] Freind de Westerby [recte Westerleigh?] in agro Glocest.'

Record Sources

Description by Sophie Floate, adapted from H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852) II, section X, p. 5 (MS. 1).

Last Substantive Revision

2022-02: First online publication.