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Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 191 D

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  • BPL 191 D
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  • Parts 1-3: Low Countries, southern part?, 13th/14th century - Part 4: British Isles ; England?, 13th century - Part 5: British Isles ; England?, 14th century - Part 6: Low Countries, southern part?, 13th century
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Composite manuscript, six parts (Latin)
    • De disciplina scholarium
    • Expositio Hymnorum
    • De viribus herbarum
    • Algorismus
    • Computus
    • Glosule Algorismi
    • Algorismus versificatus
    • De compositis
    • Glosule supra Algorismum
    • Heroides
    • Epistolae ex Ponto
    • Bursarii super Ovidios
    • Dictamina
    • Tristia
    • Synonyma
    • 1. (ff. 1-24) De disciplina scholarium / Pseudo-Boethius. - 2. (ff. 25-35) Expositio Hymnorum. - And other part(s), BPL 191 D
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Description
  • Content:
    Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-24v) De disciplina scholarium / Pseudo-Boethius. Intermingled with commentary.
    Part 2 contains: (ff. 25r-35v) Expositio Hymnorum.
    Part 3 contains: (ff. 36r-48v) De viribus herbarum / Macer
    Part 4 contains: (ff. 49r-50v) Algorismus. - (ff. 51r-56v) Computus
    Part 5 contains: (ff. 57r-58v) Glosule Algorismi. - (ff. 58v-59v and 64r) Algorismus versificatus. - (ff. 60r-63r) "Glosule supra Algorismum", and other text(s) on arithmetic. - (ff. 64r-64v) De compositis.
    Part 6 contains: (ff. 65r-102v) Heroides / Ovid. Glossed. - (ff. 103r-138r) Epistolae ex Ponto / Ovid. Glossed. - (f. 139r) Bursarii super Ovidios / William of Orléans. Excerpts. - (f. 139r) Beginning of a text "Dictamina". - (ff. 139r-140v) List of synonyms, glosses, verses and dicta. - (ff. 141r-164v) Tristia / Ovid. Incomplete, glossed.
    Note:
    Illustration: (ff. 49-56 and ff. 57-63) Contain diagrams.
    Binding: Post-medieval binding.
    Textual part 1-3: (ff. 1r-24v) The last leaf is missing, with consequent loss of text. A more recent hand wrote the missing part of the text in the lower margin of f. 24v. - (ff. 25r-35r) Incipit: "Philosophus dicit primo ethicorum quod felicitas est bonum optimum pulcherrimum...". - (ff. 36r-48r) Macer is sometimes identified as Odo of Meung. - (ff. 49r-56r) Treatises introducing the Arabic numerals (Algorismus) and on arithmetic in general (Computus). According to the ms., the Compotus differs from the one called "Computus magnus" and is similar to the text beginning with "Vices temporum".
    Textual part 4-6: (ff. 51r-56v) Incipit: "(G)loriosum est ut ait aristoteles...". - (ff. 57r-64v) Treatises on arithmetic. - (ff. 58v-59v) Incipit: "Haec algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua...". - (ff. 65r-102v) Letter XV (Sappho to Phaon) and parts of letters XVI and XXI are missing. - (f.139r) Excerpts from a commentary on poems of Ovid (accessus to Heroides, Remedia, and Ex Ponto). Incipit "Ovidius de Peligno opido existens...". Incipit of Dictamina: "Venite sitientes ad fontem dictaminum...". - (ff. 139r-140r) Incipit of synonyms: "Auxiliari, adiuvare, sufragari, subvenire...". - (ff. 141r-164v) Incomplete, up to book III, 13, verse 14. The subsequent part was lost.
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Geel 1852): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750
    Description (Molhuysen 1912): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151098
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Description (Gumbert 2009): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
    Also described by BNM and MMDC.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    13th century
    14th century
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Low Countries, Southern (?)
    Original form
    • Low Countries, southern part?
    Other form
    • Low Countries, southern part
    • Southern Netherlands?
    • Southern Netherlands
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  • Preferred form
    • British Isles
    Original form
    • British Isles
    Other form
    • British Isles?
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  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom) (?)
    Original form
    • England?
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • England
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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