Algorismus, etc

Description

Title: Algorismus, etc
Creator: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1450]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment and paper of 1) Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus. 2) Jordanus Rufus, Medecina equorum. 3) Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum. 4) William Falconer, Falconibus
Description: In Latin, German and French.
Script: multiple hands writing in multiple scripts.
Binding: S. XV limp parchment binding with leather spine stiffener and visible sewing and flap. The parchment is from an erased music manuscript. Remnants of a paper title label on the spine (text lost).
Provenance: The various components of this manuscript were brought together in the fifteenth century probably in Central Europe. On the front pastedown, in s. XV Cursiva (doubtful reading): “Nos tangit lacota krugch draeg tollit omnia nostra / Invenit pogorill. qui non wlt esse peryatell”. Below, in a s. XVI German hand: “Synopsis philosophie Aristotelis”. Collection of Count Oswald Seilern (1900-1967, circular armorial bookplate). Christie's sale, London, 26 March 2003 (The Count Oswald Seilern Collection), lot 12. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 85 : 225 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Early works to 1900
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment and paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Augustinus.
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic): Falconry
Horses
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
Medicine, Medieval
Occultism
Subjects: Pseudo-Augustinus
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Falconry > Early works to 1800
Horses > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
Medicine, Medieval
Occultism > Early works to 1900
Germany > 14th century
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.