Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 347: Almanach

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 347: Almanach
Alternate Title:
Almanach Profacii. Tables, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 1 + 69 + 13
Dimensions:
320 Height (mm) and 215 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Provenance:
From Norwich Cathedral Priory. On p. 4 is an erasure beginning liber iste and ending Norwic. There is also mention at the end of Adam Estone, and the Kalendar is of Norwich.
Table of contents:
  • Tabulae almanac
  • Tables for the planets, sun and moon
  • Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory
  • Tabula
Description:
Parker acquired CCCC MS 347 from Norwich cathedral priory, and it was one of three that the priory had been bequeathed by their former owner, Cardinal Adam Easton OSB (c. 1330-97), that Parker secured (see also CCCC MSS 74 and 180). It contains the 'Almanac' (Tabulae almanac) of Profatius Iudaeus (Jacob ben Machir) (fl. 1288-1301) and other astrological material, a Norwich cathedral priory calendar and the only known surviving fragment of Easton's treatise Expositio quorundam terminorum astrologicorum. It was almost certainly once part of the Cardinal's reputedly extensive personal library. If so, it was probably among the 228 books from that source which arrived in Norwich, packed in six barrels, in 1407, ten years after Easton's death in Rome.
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