Ps. ARISTOTELES. MATHEMATICA, ETC.
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Collation: 112 28 (8 canc.) 38 410 (10 canc.) 5 consists of 33 leaves being perhaps a quire of 22 with several insertions 66 (6 canc.) 78 810 98 1010 1112 128 138 (8 stuck to cover).
Contents:
1.
Aristotelis Epistola ad Alexandrum . . . . . f. 1
Aristotiles alexandro bene agere
-habundas ex hiis libris tibi
scriiptis. Vale.
Tria sunt genera ciuilium
sermonum . . . . 2
2. Aristoteles de
Secretis . . . . . . 2b
Proll. (a) Domino suo
excellentissimo.
(b) Deus omnipotens custodiat regem . . . . 3b
(c) Johannes qui transtulit . . . . . 4b
Text. O ffili gloriosissime . . . . . . 4b
Ends imperfectly f. 27b in Lib. iv c.2 de intelligenciis.
3.
Alexandri de Villa dei algorismus cum commento . . . 28
Hec algorismus ars presens
dicitur in qua.
Ends unfinished 29b.
Two blank leaves with a few late notes.
(Halliwell, Rara mathematica, etc.)
4.
De septem vitiis . . . . . . . 32
Superbia. Superbia est tumor animi.
Ends 36a: a concepcione uiolenta repulsio. Expl.
On 37a, 8 verses.
dilectus
Dum tacitus amatus eram
sed prodiga lingua
Me fecit exosum. ve tibi lingua loquax, etc.
Below: 1455. 28. 8.
Other memorial verses on 37b.
5.
Joh. de Sacro Bosco Tractatus de sphaera . . . . 38
Begins imperfectly: in superficie
terre transieris.
Ends: mundi machina
dissoluetur. Expl. tract. de spera.
Thomas. (Amen). ffinito
libro, etc.
On 40b notes.
6.
Double columns. Expositio
nominum contentorum in theorica
planetarum . . . . . . . . 41
Expos. nomin. contingentium circa
motum solis.
Zodiacus circulus signorum, etc.
Ends: Latitudo ciuitatis est
altitudo poli super orizontem.
42b blank.
7.
De planetis metrice . . . . . . . 43
Est tua saturne domus
eglocerantis (aegocerontis) et urne
Vnde ioui dona pisces sunt atque
chirona.
Ends 49b. Vnica tunc tibi sunt que
sunt iam dupla relicta.
8.
De usu astrolabii (?) . . . . . . . 50
Si volueris scire gradum solis
pone regulam.
Ends 55b. 56a blank.
On 56b. The Greek alphabet with
the numeral equivalents:
ignorantly written: below, a
classification of the letters with
vowels, semivowels, etc. and
'mistice': these last are a, w, u, q, t.
9.
f. 57 is a folding leaf with a
diagram of the Zodiac.
On the verso are rhyming verses:
Scrutatur astrologus corporum
figuras
Loca situs orbium polos et
mensuras
Axes centra circulos auges et
iacturas
Gradus motus tempora vices et
naturas, etc.
On 58a diagram of constellations.
On 58b lists of stars in the
Zodiac, etc.
10. De geometria . . . . . . . . 59b
Pro cognicione geometrie nota
quod geometria docet.
With figures. Ends 61a. Tantum de geometria.
Scribble of obligation (xvi) of
Jo. Diggens of ‘Dover in the
countye of Southampton’ to
Rob. Wright of Brampton (Hunts).
11. Conclusiones (receipts) . . . . . . . f. 61b
Ut omnes flores rubeos et rosas
statim possis dealbare.
62b blank.
12. De prognosticis aëris . . . . . . . 63
Opusculum istud est de
pronosticis aereis. in primo enim
determinatur. Ends imperfectly 69b in ch. iv.
13. Inc. ludi pulcherimi Salamonis quos
mandauit Regine Acrys
nobilissime domine quos fecit
rex salamon filius regis dauid
pulcriores quos poterit pro
requestu predicte domine, unde
primus sic inc. . . . . . . . . 70
Aqua ardens de qua si uolueris
unum uelamen uel quicquid
uolueris sine lesione ardere,
etc.
Ends 71b: Item ut caro cito coquatur.
Radices urtice cum
ipsa in lebetem immitte. ff. 72-74 blank.
14. Trotula de morbis mulierum . . . . . . 75
Cum auctor uniuersitatis
-lauet cum aqua tepida. Expl. lib. factus a muliere
salernitana que trotula uocatur.
Beginning of capitula, 89b. 90a
blank.
15. Double columns. Apocalypsis Goliae (Wright, Poems of W. 90b
Mapes, p. 1).
A tauro torrida
-fecisset lubrica. Expl. Apoc. Mag. Walteri map.
16. Rethorica . . . . . . . 93
Principium naturale est quando
res inde incipit unde geri cepit.
Ends unfinished 96b.
ff. 97-100 blank save for
scribbles.
17. Summa librorum sententiarum metrice . . . . . 101
Res et signa duo doctrine membra
probantur.
.
. .
Sed saciabuntur Christus finis
sacaet uos. Amen.
Expl. quartus lib. Sent.
18. Summa causarum Decreti (Gratiani)
metrice . . . . . 121b
Hic uideas quid sit diuinum ius
hominumque.
Ends in Causa 36.
ff. 126b-130 blank.
19. Mirabilia Orientis . . . . . . . . 131
Reuera admirabile est nomen dei
in universa terra.
Arranged under nationes, fontes, arbores, montes.
The last is Mons Tabor.
Mirabilia Anglie. . . . . . . . . 133b
(1) Ventus egreditur de cauernis
in monte qui uocatur peek.
(2)
"Stonhengels." (3) Albus equs
iuxta oxenford. (4)
Apud Cherterobe .i. Cartecoli
concauitas est sub terra, etc.
The last: Sarchofagus alius intus
et pluit nulli homini in mundo
est aptus.
20. Moral notes and extracts . . . . . . . 134
Superbia demones fecit ex
angelis, etc.
Ending with Dicta philosophorum (six).
Section 16 is an abbreviated version of the first part of the Documentum de moda et alte dictandi et verseficandi ('tria sunt circa quae') attributed to Geoffrey of Vinsauf. The St John's MS. is related to the longer version of the treatise. See Sidney Sussex College 56, Pembroke College 287, British Library Cotton Cleo B VI, Balliol 263, Bodley Seldon Supra 65.
Corpus Christi College 217 follows the shorter version of the Hunterian Museum 511. See E. Laval, Les Arts Poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1958). The St John's MS. breaks off at the end of the third of sixteen chapters (II.70 of Laval's edition).
At least part of this MS. appears to have been written by Thomas Lyseux, who studied at Oxford during the first half of the fifteenth century. See Emden, BRUO 2.1197. His surname appears at the top of fols 3r and 22r, and his Christian name on the pastedown at the head of the volume and again in an 'explicit' on fol. 40r. The contents of the MS. suggest that it was written in a university milieu.
On fol. 41, Olaf Pedersen, A Fifteenth Century Glossary of Astronomical Terms, Classica et Mediaevalia, Dissertationes IX (Gyddendal, 1973), copy in St John's College Library.
On item 14, H. P. Bayon, Section of the History of Medicine, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol. XXXIII (1940).
Negative Microfilm in St John's College Library.
