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

MS. Canon. Misc. 105

Summary Catalogue no.: 19581

Astronomy, 13th century and 15th century

Physical Description

Composite: two parts
Extent: 77 leaves, small quarto

Binding

15th century or earlier (? by the time of the volume’s purchase in 1403, see fol. 1r), Italian?: wood boards, outside corners rounded; brown leather, tooled with blind lines to form diamond shapes linking the bosses; rows of 3+[3]+3 star-shaped bosses on each cover, with single central clasp; strap of thick natural-coloured textile (a replacement ?), with metal catch fixing to a large embossed catch-plate; endleaves of palimpsest parchment including erased plainchant, 12th century. Spine enhanced or replaced, with gilt decoration and a gilt red-leather title-label, 18th century, Italian, all re-laid onto a reback of 1945, Bodleian. 170–172 × 125 × c. 26–30 mm. (book closed).

History

Provenance and Acquisition

'Johannes Thom...... ord. Prædicatorum.'

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Misc. 105 – Part 1

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Followed by astronomical tables for 1371-1386 in a later hand.

2. (fol.11)
Astronomy (de sphaera, eTK 1479F)
Incipit: Sic queram primo, utrum spere celestes sint novem et videtur, quod non, quia per speram non possunt deprehendi
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus spere
eTK 1479F
3. (fol. 14)
Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera (eTK 0082A)
Incipit: Aliquando modus sicut spera speram appetitus appetit, ita scribit philosophus tertio de anima Boetius.
Explicit: sicut dictum est; sic est in proposito, quare, etc.
Final rubric: Explicit adscriptum spere.

With diagrams.

eTK 0082A
4. (fol. 38)
Astronomy (de sphaera, eTK 1427L)
Rubric: Incipit scriptum super Spera
Incipit: Seneca dicit in quadam epistola ad Lucillum, Projice omnia
Explicit: vel Deus nature patitur, sicut fuit verum an machina mundi tota dissolvetur et corrumpetur. Explicit.
Final rubric: Explicit scriptum spere
eTK 1427L

Followed by astronomical tables with canons.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Diagrams.

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Canon. Misc. 105 – Part 2

Contents

5. (fol. 64)
Japhar, Liber imbrium (tr. Hugh of Santalla)
Incipit: Universa astronomie juditia, prout Indorum asseverat antiquitas, a luna in ducatu potissimum manare creduntur
eTK 1546A
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 70)
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (imperfect: ends at 'ita quod digitus in digitum')
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (Jan. 2024) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854), with reference to published literature as cited. Binding: B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020).

Last Substantive Revision

2024-02-14: Revised to incorporate all information in Quarto catalogue.