Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 347: Almanach
Description
Abstract/Contents
- 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
Bibliographic information
- 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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- 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
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(42) Tabula solis
(50) Medius cursus lune
(53) Tabula argumenti lune - Note
- for the years 1300-1323
- Rubric
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(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
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(122) Eleuacionis signorum
(124) Portionis
(125) Minutorum proporcionalium - Note
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Ending 140
p. 141 blank - Rubric
- (142) Cicli primacionum secundum lincolniensem
- Note
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p. 145 blank
(146) Note - Incipit
- (146) In hoc primationum ciclo 4 linee descendentes
- Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory. 147-158
- Note
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(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
- Profatius Iudaeus (Jacob ben Machir), Tabulae almanac. 5-12
- TJames
- 330
- Stanley
- 11. 4
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/sm391jt4448
- MS 347
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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