1. fol. 1-9v: Johannes de Saxonia, [Canones tabularum alfonsi] (Thorndike & Kibre 1560-1) Tempus est mensura motus.../...in coniunctionibus planetarum etc. est finis.
2. fol. 9v-25: Johannes de Lineriis, Canones tabularum (Canons of 1322; TK 1127) Priores astrologi motus corporum celestium.../...solis qui fuit in radice etc. patet propositum et sic est finis et scius./Expliciunt canones tabularum per magistrium Johannem de lineriis conpleti parisius Anno incarnationis domini nostri ihesu Christi mr° Trencesimo 22° etc.
3. fol. 25v-34v: Johannes de Lineriis, Canones de sinibus, arcibus et cordis (TK 276) Cuiuslibet arcus prepositi sinum.../...et fit sola una per unita[ ]o sed primi [ ] et eqo etc.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in France at the end of the fourteenth century. Originally fol. 55-80 of a larger manuscript, probably containing the Alphonsine Tables.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from A. Rosenthal in 1939. BPL bookplate inside front cover.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 210
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... sium a dierum ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 34 + ii (modern paper) ; 1-2⁶ 3⁶⁻² (final two leaves cancelled) ; lower right corner recto in first half of each quire signed 1-6 in 14th-century arabic numerals. Catchwords in lower right corner, last verso of each quire, contained within a border. Original arabic foliation in brown ink, upper right corner of each recto, begins with 55 and reaches 88 at end, modern pencil arabic foliation on the upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Bounding and writing lines in light brown plummet or in blind.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive (cursiva libraria) in brown ink.
Decoration: Seven- to nine-line "puzzle" initials in blue and gold with blue and red filigree on fol. 9v and 25v, three-line blue and red initials elsewhere, red or blue paragraph markers. Geometric diagrams on fol. 26, 27, 27v, 28v, 33v in brown ink, illustrating Canones de sinibus.
Binding: 18th-century green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London, gilt filllet border, edges and turn-ins, title gilt on spine, "JOH. DE SAXONIA. JOH. DE LINNERIIS CANONES TABULARIA MS. XIV CENTURY," paper endleaves and pastedowns.
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