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MS. Laud Misc. 644

Summary Catalogue no.: 1487

Astronomical and astrological treatises and tables

Language(s): Latin

Arithmetical treatises

Language(s): Latin

Arzachel, Canones ad tabulas Toletanas (tr. Gerard of Cremona )

Language(s): Latin

Theorica planetarum

Language(s): Latin

Commentary on Boethius, De institutione arithmetica

Language(s): Latin

Commentary on Boethius, De institutione musica

Language(s): Latin

Robert Grosseteste, De sphaera

Language(s): Latin

Robert Grosseteste, Compotus correctorius

Language(s): Latin

Albumasar, Flores astrorum

Language(s): Latin

10.

Alfraganus, Liber de aggregationibus

Language(s): Latin

11.

Robert Grosseteste, De lineis, angulis, et figuris

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 225 + ii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 205 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 47 lines, but tables are variable, column space 210 × 55-60 mm.

Musical Notation:

Music (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 529:

Good coloured drawings copying a model of 9th or 11th century.

Good tables.

Good initials.

Binding

19th-century calf rebind.

History

Origin: c. 1268–1274 ; French, Bayeux

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 465–6

Quarto Catalogue, p. 576

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 63