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1. Algorismus
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1460.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 977
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric and The manuscript is a palimpsest containing portions of Ovid's Heroides: on f. 2, Epistle XVI, lines 109-172; on f. 3, Epistle XVI, lines 173-233; on f. 5, Epistle XIV, lines 79-132; on f. 7, Epistle XIII, lines 119-166; on f. 8, Epistle XVI, lines 234-297. Remaining leaves unidentified
- Alternative Title:
- Algorismus vulgaris and Algorismus Boetii incipit
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from opening rubric., Layout: Single columns of 32 lines., Script: gothic hybrida., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: modern paper., Secundo folio: De additione., and Evidence of pricking.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algorismus
2. De sphaera, etc
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 335
- Image Count:
- 96
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso., Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red., Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc
