Parker Library On the Web

Alternative title

Almanach Profacii. Tables, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 69 + 13

Date created

[ca. 1300-1325]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

text, double columns of 40 lines: usually tables of figures

Height (mm)

320

Width (mm)

215

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8) (wants 1, 2, 8) 2(8)-9(8) | 10(14) (wants 13).

Writing

very well written

Foliation

ff. i-ii + pp. 1-165 + ff. iii-iv

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.

Additions

Old lists of contents on flyleaf (p. 1) and on p. 6.

Summary

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.

Contents

Tabulae almanac -- Tables for the planets, sun and moon -- Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory -- Tabula

M.R. James Date

xiv early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tf532jw8983/MS_347.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hj138tf8118/347.pdf

Contains

• Profatius Iudaeus (Jacob ben Machir), Tabulae almanac. 5-12

  Author

  Profatius Iudaeus (Jacob ben Machir)

  Note

  (5) Text, with good blue initial and red pen-work

  Incipit

  (5) Quia omnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant et inquirere res occultas

  Explicit

  (12) motum etiam cursus a principio eclipsis usque in finem eius

  Rubric

  (12) Expliciunt Canones

• Tables for the planets, sun and moon. 13-146

  Note

  A series of Tables very well written in red and black: as far as p. 27 each page is marked in the lower corner corr(ectum)
  (13) Tables for the planets

  Rubric

  (42) Tabula solis
  (50) Medius cursus lune
  (53) Tabula argumenti lune

  Note

  for the years 1300-1323

  Rubric

  (102) Tabula equacionis lune
  (114) Tabula diuisionis longitudinis buth.
  (116) Medii motus capitis drachonis
  (119) Diuersitatis aspectus in longitudine et latitudine ad montem pessuli
  (120) Latitudinis lune
  (120) Eclipsis lune
  (121) Cursus solis et lune

  Note

  (Montpellier)

  Rubric

  (122) Eleuacionis signorum
  (124) Portionis
  (125) Minutorum proporcionalium

  Note

  Ending 140
  p. 141 blank

  Rubric

  (142) Cicli primacionum secundum lincolniensem

  Note

  p. 145 blank
  (146) Note

  Incipit

  (146) In hoc primationum ciclo 4 linee descendentes

• Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory. 147-158

  Note

  (147) Kalendar in red and black
  Notes of eclipses for the xivth century are added
  The kalendar has
  (149) 24 March. Passio Sancti Willelmi
  (151) 30 May. Sancti ethelberti regis
  (152) 23 June. Sancte Etheldrede Virginis
  (153) 31 July. Sanctorum Neoti et Germani
  (155) 16 September. Translatio Reliquiarum in albis: in red
  (155) 24 September. Dedicatio ecclesie Norwyc.: in red
  (156) 6 October. Sancte Fidis Virginis: in red
  (156) 7 October. Sancte Osithe Virginis
  (156) 17 October. Translatio Sancte Etheldrede
  (158) 29 December. Thomas erased

• Petrus de Dacia, Tabula. 159-163

  Author

  Petrus de Dacia

  Rubric

  (159) Tabula Magistri Petri de dacia dicti philomena

  Note

  With explanatory text

  Incipit

  (159) Ad locum etiam lune habendum uideas quota est dies etc.

  Note

  (163) On p. 163, in a small current hand

  Rubric

  (163) Incipit exposicio quorundam terminorum astrologicorum quos scripsit frater adam de Estone monachus Norwycensis

  Incipit

  (163) Almantica est angulus latus in medio et in ligatura

  Note

  Ends on the same page

TJames

330

Stanley

11. 4

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 347

Use and reproduction:

Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License