MS. Add. A. 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 28744

Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera

Rubric: Incipit spera secundum M. Joannem Gallicum de Sacra Busco

Incipit: ⟨T⟩ractatum de sp⟨er⟩a quatuor capitulis distinguimus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: i + 56 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 7.25 × 5 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 820)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 820

Geometric diagrams (e.g. fols 8r and 49v). A representational diagram on

fol. 10r

Type diagram
Subject Geometric diagram with walled city and boat on water

Additions: With notes in the margins in various hands, from differing dates, and some correction of the main text; e.g. fol. 7v and fol. 28r

Binding

Red leather on boards with blind tooling, brass bosses and fore-edge clasp fittings (15th century)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy North

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 56v: '1452 (?) Visto; per mi Zohanne de Ipesoadan (?)'. For similar inscriptions, see MS. Canon. Misc. 486, MS. D'Orville 36, and MS. Laud Lat. 48; also Edinburgh, Nat. Lib. Scotland, MS. Adv. 18. 3. 15. Apparently to be read as Giovanni dei Pescadori: see Giuseppe Billanovich, 'Il testo di Livio', Italia medioevale e umanistica 32 (1989), 53-99 at 85 and n. 93.

'V. g. 51', 'Pº xix. f. 3', 'V. E. 6'

Purchased for 6s at Sotheby's on 20-21 June 1860, lot 245, along with eight other manuscripts 'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 502

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-11-13: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)

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