Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 424: Astronomical Tracts. Liber de Joseph et Aseneth

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 424: Astronomical Tracts. Liber de Joseph et Aseneth
Alternate Title:
Astronomica. Aseneth, etc.
Language:
Latin and English
Extent:
ff. MSS. 41 + 18 + 11 + 1
Dimensions:
199 Height (mm) and 139 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]; [ca. 1400 - 1499]; [ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1200 - 1299]
Table of contents:
  • Treatise on the Astrolabe
  • Kalendarium
  • De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke)
  • De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis
  • De secretis philosophorum
  • De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione
  • Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni)
  • Antidotarium Nicholai in English
  • Liber de Joseph et Aseneth
  • Speculum spiritalis amicitiae
  • Speculum humilitatis
Description:
CCCC MS 424 is comprised of a number of disparate elements, with six volumes bound together containing material from different centuries. The manuscript begins with three printed pamphlets, an epitome of Galen by Christopher Heyll, an account of the marriage of Philip of Spain and Mary I of England and of a speech given by the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1561. The manuscript material proper is a jumble of medical, astrological and spiritual treatises such as the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione and Thomas de Frakaham OSA (fl. c. 1200) Speculum spiritalis amicitiae copied in various hands between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. In addition the codex includes an earlier twelfth-century copy of the legend of Aseneth in a Latin translation from the Greek.
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