Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 420: Astrological and Astronomical Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 420: Astrological and Astronomical Tracts
Alternate Title:
Astronomica
Language:
Latin and English
Extent:
ff. cir. 200 written and 200 printed
Dimensions:
200 Height (mm) and 142 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Provenance:
On the flyleaf and elsewhere the name Johannes Eston.
Table of contents:
  • Astrological and Astronomical Tracts
  • Almanach noua plurimis annis uenturis inseruientia
  • Liber introductorius in iudicia astrorum qui dicitur Principium sapientiae, transl. by Peter of Abano
Description:
CCCC MS 420 is a compendium of astrological and astronomical tracts. Of these, Johannes Stoeffler's Ephemerides and the translation by Peter of Abano (c. 1257-1316) into Latin of Abraham ibn Ezra's astrological treatise Re'shit Ho'khmah - the Liber introductorius in iudicia astrorum qui dicitur Principium sapientiae are printed versions produced in Parker's lifetime. The first portion of the collection contains various manuscript tracts in Latin and English copied in the sixteenth century, the first of which is the preface to the Prognosticatio of Johannes Lichtenberger (d. 1503). The name John Eston appears in two places in the volume, though he and his relationship to Parker, if any, has not been identified.
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