Astronomical miscellany : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Astronomical miscellany : in Latin
Title (alt.):
Kitāb al-Manṣūrī. Latin
Contributor:
Abū Maʻshar, -886
Contributor:
Māshāʼallāh, 730?-815?
Contributor:
ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ibn ʻUthmān, -967
Contributor:
Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063
Contributor:
Sahl ibn Bishr, active 822-850
Contributor:
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Former owner:
Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, Austria)
Former owner:
Stift Admont. Bibliothek
Date:
1319
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Marginalia
Wooden boards
Manuscript waste
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
Manuscripts, Medieval--Austria
Inscriptions
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Austria > Steiermark > Admont
Extent:
98 leaves : parchment ; 258 x 185 (185 x 135) mm bound to 26 cm, in box 29 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bc38b216j
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Austria?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v-7: Albumasar, De meditacionibus cordis (TK 671D, Zinner 3393) Incipit liber de meditationibus cordis albumasar/ In disponendis stellarum radicibus.../...in loco inmobili.
3. fol. 7-20: Messahala, Liber absconditorum (TK 1349I) Incipit liber absconditorum messahale/ Rerum absconditarum.../...et vulcanus femine./ Quis hoc scribebat .h. n[ome]n habebat.
4. fol. 20v: blank.
5. fol. 21-30v: Messahala (tr. Johannes Hispalensis), Liber cognicionis vel receptionis (Zinner 7105) Incipit liber co[gnicio]nis vel receptionis messahala/ Capitulum secretorum.../...coniunctione et reception.
6. fol. 30v-32v: Almansor (tr. Plato Tiburtinus), [Capitula stellarum] Signorum dispositio est.../...fuit forma...[ends imperfectly at the end of a quire]
7. fol. 33-48: Alcabitius (tr. Johannes Hispalensis), Liber introductorius (Zinner 22) Incipit liber alchibicii introductorii indiciorum astronomie/ Postulata a domino.../...a iohanne hyspanense. Amen. [slightly later additions below]
8. fol. 48v: blank.
9. fol. 49-54: Aly, Secundus liber de electionibus particularibus Incipit secundus liber aly de electionibus particularibus/ Quoniam permisimus.../...signum aquaticus./ Explicit haly de electionibus horarum. 1319.
10. fol. 54v-55v: [anonymous, no title] (TK 1050M, Zinner 8301) Planetis deputantus.../...mansionem sol.
11. fol. 56-56v: [anonymous, no title] (TK 1527L, Zinner 10277) Stellarum fixarum.../...spera in [ ] novem [catchword] vergit... [ends imperfectly at the end of a quire]
12. fol. 57-87: Zahel, Liber iudiciorum (TK 1406J, Zinner 9270) Incipit liber iudiciorum zahel ysraelite/ Scito quod signa sunt zii.../...et omnes res eius.
13. fol. 87-98: Zahel, De electionibus (TK 985A, Zinner 9270) Omnes sapientes concordati.../...dues volverit. Explicit. deo gratias.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Austria in 1319, possibly at the Benedictine abbey in Admont; the manuscript was at the abbey by 1380, as it is described in the library catalog compiled that year: "Albumasar de meditacionibus cordis. Incipit. In disponendis. In eodem. Liber absconditorum messahale. Et. Liber convinctionis vel receptionis messahale. Et. Liber alchabicii introductorii iudiciorum astronomie. Et. Secundus liber haly de electionibus particularibus. Et. Liber iudiciorum Zahelis ysrahelite." (see Wichner, p. 528).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Number 481 in the abbey library through the 19th century, with the abbey label on its spine and a 19th-century purple ownership stamp on fol. 1. Several 14th-century annotations on fol. 1 concerning Golden Numbers. Unidentified manuscript used as binding material on front and rear pastedown.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL in 1939 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, cat. 265, no. 2.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 207
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...agricles. Piscium...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 98 ; 1-2⁸ 3⁴ 4¹² 5-8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12⁸⁻² (final two leaves cancelled). An unknown number of leaves apparently lacking after fol. 32 and 56, since those texts end imperfectly ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
Layout: 2 columns, 38-48 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light plummet, upper and lower writing lines full-length to edges.
Script: Written in several early gothic bookhands in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two- to four-line red epigraphic capitals throughout, red paragraph markers throughout in differing styles.
Binding: Contemporary (?) deerskin over boards, blind-fillet design on covers, small head- and tail-flaps over endbands; 14th-century manuscript waste pastedowns inner front and back. 14th-century label on spine reads "Astrologi/ca"; 14th-century title handwritten on cover reads, "Albumasar de med[i]tat[i]o[n]ib[us]." Housed in a clamshell box.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, Mass.: 1963); P. J. Wichner, "Zwei Bücherverzeichnisse des 14. Jahrh. in der Admonter Stiftsbibliothek," Beihefte zum Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen I (1888): 497-531; E. Zinner, Verzeichnis der astronomischen Handschriften des deutschen Kulturgebietes (Munich, 1925).
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018663
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.80
MS 1488 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846384