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Alternative title

Tables, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Date created

[ca. 1500 - 1599]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Paper

Height (mm)

295

Width (mm)

202

Foliation

ff. i-iv + pp. (1-2 missing) 3-290 (291-292 missing) + 293-560 + ff. 560a-j + pp. 561-572 + ff. v-viii

Summary

CCCC MS 169 is a printed book containing two texts published in 1518 and 1559, but containing at the beginning and end manuscript notes and verses on astronomical and other subjects.

Contents

Diametri et distantiae planetarum -- Johann Stoeffler, Calendarium Romanum magnum -- Calendarium Romanum magnum -- The Shepherd's Calendar -- Compound Manuell in Latin -- Tables for the meting of timber

M.R. James Date

xvi

Augmented James Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kp582rv5171/169.pdf

Original James Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kc991tv2905/MS_169.pdf

Contains

• Diametri et distantiae planetarum. 3-14

  Nasmith

  Diametri et distantiae planetarum

  Incipit

  Diameter terre est 6500 miliaria

  Note

  Followed by notes of measures of length, distances of planets, verses on the same: all in Parkerian hand, pp.3-5

• Calendarium Romanum magnum. 15-292

  Nasmith

  Calendarium Romanum magnum, Cesareas majestati dicatum, D. Ioanne Stoeffler mathematico autore; impressum in Oppenheym per lacobum Robel die 24 Martii mensis anno 1518

  Author

  Johann Stoeffler

  Note

  Printed and therefore not imaged

• The Shepherd's Calendar. 293-496

  Nasmith

  The kalender of shepardes newely augmented and corrected, imprinted at London by William Powell for John Walley A. D. 1559

  Note

  Printed and therefore not imaged

• Compound Manuell in Latin. 497-557

  Nasmith

  A treatise of the compound manuell, Latine

  Incipit

  Sicut ait Augustinus distinct. 38 cap. (que ipsis) sacerdotes compotum scire tenentur

  Note

  Many memorial verses are interspersed

  Explicit

  Christus factus homo lauat omnes reddita trono

  Note

  A reference to "Anselm" de imagine mundi cap. xxiii follows

• Tables for the meting of timber. 560ar-571

  Nasmith

  Tables for the meting of timber

  Rubric

  A boke to mete tymber by

  Note

  First come ten leaves of smaller size consisting entirely of figures in columns
  Then the same copied out on larger paper
  On the last page a table in writing

TJames

314

Stanley

Misc. J

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/zs860hs4144

MS 169

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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