The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.7.20
Manuscript Title

Astronomical and Medical Texts

Alternative Title

Astronomica Medica

James Number 1348
Century 14th15th16th
Physical Description

Various volumes bound together.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Marked L. 8. No. 399.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 11 x 14 and 11 x 15
Folio 36 + 196 ff.
Material PaperParchment
Language LatinMiddle English
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.7.20/manifest.json
Online Since 07/10/2019

Contents

I. The Vellum portion of cent. xiv, xv.

1. f.1 Diagram of an opposition (?)

2. Fragment of a work on Epistolary formulae

Ends f.6b: et post nebulam dat serenum. Amen.

Explicit.

Constat Johanni Wylk in artibus magistro.

De S. Maria.

Sum quod eram (glossed virgo) nec eram quod (glossed mater) sum ύ nunc dicor utrumque.

Est quod erat (glossed deus) quod adem nec erat (glossed homo) nunc regnat utroque.

3. f.7 Fragment on astronomy

4. f.8 Moral and theological notes

5. f.11b Table of numbers

6. f.13 Tria capitula de secretis secretorum Aristotelis

Imperfect.

7. f.17b Physical and astronomical fragments, with diagram

8. f.20 On the Meteora of Aristotle

De primis igitur causis. In isto libro qui liber metheororum intitulatur.

On f.25 is a good volvel, and there are other diagrams.

Ends f.30: in partis.

Expl. bonus tractatus.

Similar matter follows with figures.

9. f.33b De urinis

Urina rufa significat salutem.

f.34 10. Astronomical matter

Ending imperfectly on f.136.

These leaves are much disordered.

II. 1. Paper. Cent. xv late.

Henricus Walmesley a dw a digon (xvi).

Johannes Tauernour (xvi).

Receipts (medical) in English.

Pro stomaco.

Acordyng to the helthe of the stomache.

9ff.

2. Cent. xvii

f.50 Receipts in English

3. f.65 Receipts in Italian (xvi, xvii)

4. f.72 Lists of books lent (?), many crossed out. Dated mostly in 1582

Possibly by Dr John Dee. 

5. f.82 Receipts in Latin.

6. f.92 A smaller book of Receipts in Latin and English

7. Larger paper: pale ink, of cent. xvi.

f.176 List of simples

f.177b Diagrams of stills (?)

f.179 Capitula

f.180 Tractatus de medicinis ad dispositionem quinte essentie

In hoc(!) parte describentur omnia simplicia.

Ending f.196.

Bibliography

Roberts, J., and A. G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue (London, 1990) DM5; cf. M115

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 127 and 161

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