Spain, Seville, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, 5-4-48

Astronomical treatises
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 80 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 294 x 212 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Modern pencil foliation.
  • Collation:
    Bound layers: 1 binion, 1 ternion, 1 quinion and 5 sextenions:
    K-L.12., F.12., [ ].12., G.12., [ ].6., I.10., [ ].4.
    Horizontal reclaimers in the lower margin of the last verso-folios of each layer.
  • Condition Description:
    Manuscript is in bad condition.
  • Decoration:
    Initials in red or blue ink alternating. Some with ornaments. Sometimes there is just space left for initials and little minuscules give the correct letter.
  • Layout:
    Text is mainly set in long lines.
    The sixth treatise is set in two columns.
    Guiding pricks in the upper and lower margins.

    28 lines to the column.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by a lot of hands. Ff. 1r- 64v are written in a Gothic hybrid writing, ff. 67r- 71v in Gothic rotunds.
    One copist left his name on f. 64v : "Iohannes de Castroponce me scripsit".
  • Binding Description:
    Parchment with traces of belts and a title: " Ioan. d. Sacro Bosc. Algorism. Tract."
  • Provenance:
    Once the code had the signature: "Z-136-26"
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Al-Razi Antidotarium 67r - 71v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] In hoc meo libro medicinas ...
    [Texto:] Iam quidem peruenimus ad expositionem...
  • Note:
    A table on ff. 67r- 67v : "De tintura capillorum". No script on ff. 72r- 80v .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 21r - 24v
  • Incipit:
    Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite...
  • Note:
    Translated by Michael Scotus .
Johannes de Sacrobosco De sphera 25r - 43v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis...
    [Textus:] Sphera igitur ab Euclide sic scribitur...
  • Note:
    With a prologue.
Johannes de Sacrobosco Tractatus algorismi 55r - 64v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Omnia que a primeua rerum origine processerunt ...
    [Textus:] Est autem numeratio cuiuslibet numeri per figuras...
  • Note:
    Johannes de Sacrobosco is just the editor of this collection of algorismic treatises. No script on ff. 65r- 66v .
Ramon Llull De levitate et ponderositate elementorum 1r - 19r
  • Incipit:
    Ad requisitionem medicorum ciuitatis Neapolitane hunc tractatum...
  • Note:
    No script on ff. 19v- 20v .
Robert Grosseteste Tractatus de sphera 43r - 55r
  • Incipit:
    Intentio nostra est in hoc tractatu describere figuram machine mundane...