Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Alexander, de Villa Dei

Other related names

• Jones, W. 1675-1749, former owner
• Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, 1697-1764, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958074143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/805424438
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5807414

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1300 and 1350

Place

Spain

Summary

Didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations. Followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar, focusing on establishing feast and fast days, including discussion of solar and lunar movement. Later astronomical notes on star clusters added at the end of the manuscript (f. 14v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from incipit (f. 1r) and closing rubric (f. 8r) of predominant work.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

16 2-line initials, alternating between red with purple flourishing and blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue; rubrication in red; first initial of each line touched in red.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned as part of a larger manuscript and then separated and rebound by W. Jones, English mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society; a note written by Jones in which he attributes the Algorismus to Joannes de Sacro Bosco is laid in the manuscript.
   
• Formerly owned by George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, student of W. Jones, and housed in the library of Shirburn Castle (the seat of the Earls of Macclesfield in Oxfordshire, England).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, 22 June 2004, lot 586, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Didactic poetry, Latin

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Treatise
• Astronomy
• Mathematics
• Spain
• Spanish

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Algorismus, f. 1r
• fol. 8v — Compotus manualis, f. 8v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 6v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 9r
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 13v