The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.8.16
Manuscript Title

Astonomica (No longer in Trinity's possession)

Alternative Title

Astronomica (No longer in Trinity's possession)

James Number 1391
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. (C. 20. No. 151).

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Notes

Identified as missing in 1838. Some sections now found in BL Egerton 847 and possibly BL Egerton 824

Contents

Missing in 1838. Thus described:
Membranaceus.
Astronomica quaedam de Electionibus.
Kalendarium.
†Tabula Eclipsium Solis ab A.D. 1415 ad 1462} phasibus earum
†Tabula Eclipsium Lunae ab A.D. 1406 ad 1462} depictis.
†Eclipsium Canones.
Kalendarium Planetarum cuius Canon est in fine libri.
*Tract. de effectu Lunae in XII signis cum domibus (f.1).
Planetarum cui a fine signorum tabula Lunae etc.
*Paruus tract. de Lunationibus.
*Interpretatio somniorum Danielis (f.21b).
*Tractatus duo de Physiognomia (f.26, 34b).
*Chiromantia Rhoderici de Majoricis (in Universitate Oxon. f.41b).
*Eiusdem tract. de Physiognomia (f.51).
*Lincolniensis de Sphaera (f.57).
*Tract. communis de Sphaera (f.63).
*Tract. Geometriae et Altimetriae (f.54 with good drawings of buildings).
*Tract. peroptimus de Chiromantia (f.75b with diagrams).
*De Constellationibus Fortunae Virorum et feminarum (f.96b).
*De horis Planetarum et Effectibus (f.105).
*Tract. M. Walteri Brytte de Theorica Planetarum.
*Canones super tabulas Bedae (Reed) cum eiusdem tabulis (f.122).
*Walterus Burley in libros meteororum Aristotelis (f.145).
Compositio instrumenti vocati Rectanguli cum modo operandi cum eodem ύ nomen praefixum habet Richardi Wallingford abb. Sti Albani.
Practica Mri Jo. Slape de Compositione Navis quadrantis et Cylindn.
Idem de Compositione Astrolabii.
Practica Astrolabii cum figuris.
Tres figurae pro Navicula construenda.
Canon in kalendarium quod est in principio libri

Part of this volume is now Egerton MS. 847, formerly Halliwell 47. It is a vellum book, 7.75 x 5, 159 ff. Cent. xv, except ff.1-13, which are of cent. xvi. The tracts now in the MS. are marked with an asterisk in the above list of contents. 2 fo. rustica
The top half of f.1 is cut off, and the old foliation erased throughout.
On f.38 is the scribe's note:
quod W. de Hicchin.

Some part of the rest of the volume is, I believe, in Egerton MS. 824 (ff.35, cent. xv, Halliwell, 58). The items in this are marked with a dagger in the table.

Bibliography

Scott, K. L., Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts, (London, 2006)

Winstanley, D. A., 'Halliwell Phillipps and Trinity College Library', The Library, 5th ser. 2, issue 4 (1948), pp. 250-82