Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.18

Autre forme de la cote :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.18
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.18
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.18
- Wellcome Library, MS.18
Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date de fabrication :
- Early 14th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 14 leaves folio. 28 x 21 cm. On vellum, modern vellum binding. On the outside of the upper cover is pasted a small vellum strip containing the titles of the three works, probably cut out from an original fly-leafolio Written in a neat gothic hand in double columns of 50 lines to a column. Capitals, paragraph marks, and headings in red.

Notes

Tractatus de revolutionibus nativitatum. Introductorium majus. [Incomplete] Preceded by Messahala. De interrogationibus. On the first leaf, in the lower margin, is a pen-drawn circular diagram added by a contemporary owner. MESSAHALA. De interrogationibus Fol. 1 Precepit massehalla ut constituas as/cendens per gradum suum ... 3v, col. 1 ... et dat ei habundanciam/ire et furoris explicit. [Added by a later hand: 'tractatus de interrogationibus'.] Albumasar. De revolutionibus nativitatum. 3v (red) Incipit tractatus de Revolutionibus natiuita/tum Extractus ex libro albumazar./Quum tempus breue est operandi et opus/reuolucionis... Fol. 11v, col. 2 ... sine difficultate/possit redire noticiam. explicit (red). Albumasar. Introductorium majus in astronomia. 12 Hic liber maioris in astronomia commenti/albumasar et alalu iudiciorum dic/tatus quadrifariam partitur... 14v, col. 2 ... firmumque tes/timonium stelle participis quam de/The two works by Albumasar were first printed in full by Ratdolt at Augsburg in 1489, and of these the 'Introductorium' was translated by Hermannus de Carinthia (Cf. Haskins: 'Studies in mediaeval science'. Ch. III). The work by Messahala was first printed at Venice in 1493 in an edition of Ptolemy's 'Centiloquium' etc.
Purchased 1936.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).