Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 456

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Library

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Shelfmark

• MS 456

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Date

• 1375 - 1399

Language

• Latin

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 456: Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera. Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus. Richard of Bury, Philobiblon. Secreta secretorum
• Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera || Joh. de Sacro Bosco de Sphaera
• Commentarius opus metricum de compoto manuali || Compotus manualis
• Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus || Alexander de Villa dei de algorismo
• The Theory of the Moon || Theorica lunae
• The Theory of the Planets || Theorica planetarum
• Richard of Bury, Philobiblon || Ricardi de Bury Philobiblon
• pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum (incl. Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum) || PS.-Aristotelis Secreta Secretorum
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Agent

• Preferred form

  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco (11..-1256?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Iohannes de Sacro Bosco

  Other form

  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco (11..-1256?)
  • Jean de Sacrobosco
  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco
  • Johannes de Sacrobosco
  • JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO
  • Joannis de Sacrobosco
  • Joannes de Sacrobosco
  • Iohannes de Sacrobosco
  • Author: Johannes, de Sacrobosco
  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco (....-1256?)
  • Johannes <de Sacrobosco> (????-1256)
  • Io. de Sacrobosco
  • Sacrobosco
  • Ioannes Sacrobuschi
  • Ioannes de Sacrobosco
  • Johannes, de Sacrobosco, -1256
  • Johannes <de Sacrobosco>
  • Johannes des Sacrobosco
  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco, ca 1190-1256
  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco, ca 1190-1256 > , co-autor
  • Johannes de Sacro Bosco, ca 1190-1256 > , ant. bibliog.
  • Johannes de Sacrobosco - gest. 1256 - auteur
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• Preferred form

  • Alexandre de Villedieu (1170?-1240?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Alexander de Villa Dei

  Other form

  • Author: Alexander, de Villa Dei
  • Alexander, de Villa Dei
  • Alexander de Villa Dei (attrib.)
  • Alexander <de Villa Dei> (1170-1250)
  • Alexander, de Villa Dei.
  • Alexander de Villadei
  • Alexander de Villadeus
  • Alexandre de Villedieu (v. 1175-1240)
  • Alexander
  • Alexander <de Villa Dei>
  • Alexander de Villae Dei
  • Alexandre de Villedieu, 1170?-1240?
  • Alexander de Villa Dei - ca. 1170 - 1250 - auteur
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• Preferred form

  • Richard de Bury (1287-1345)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Richard of Bury

  Other form

  • Ricardus de Buri
  • Ricardus Dunelmensis, dictus de Bury
  • Richard de Bury (1287-1345)
  • Richardus de Bury
  • Richardus <de Bury> (1287-1345)
  • Ricardus de Bury (1286-1345)
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  • Aristote (auteur prétendu)

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  • Author

  Original form

  • Pseudo-Aristotle

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  • Aristote [Pseudo-]
  • Aristote (auteur prétendu)
  • Aristoteles (auteur prétendu)
  • Pseudo-Aristoteles
  • Pseudo-Aristote
  • Aristote, auteur prétendu
  • Aristoteles (Pseudo-)
  • Pseudo Aristóteles
  • Pseudo Aristòtil
  • Pseudo-Aristotle
  • Aristotle (attributed to)
  • Pseudo-Aristotle, fl 300 BC
  • Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.)
  • Aristotle, attributed name.
  • Aristoteles
  • Ps.-Aristoteles
  • Pseudo-Aristóteles > , co-autor
  • Pseudo-Aristóteles
  • Aristoteles - 384 - 322 v.Chr. - auteur (apocrief)
  • Aristoteles, pseudo
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Description

• Summary: CCCC MS 456 is a late fourteenth-century manuscript that contains miscellaneous texts, some of them scientific. These include Iohannes de Sacro Bosco (fl. early thirteenth century), Tractatus de sphaera, the treatise by Richard of Bury (1281-1345) on the collection and study of books, the Philobiblon, Alexander de Villa Dei (c. 1170-c. 1240) Algorismus, and the Latin translation of the Arabic version of the Secretum secretorum by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c. 1243), which is also in CCCC MS 407. This last work, popular in the later Middle Ages, is a compilation of advice on political and ethical matters directed towards rulers. In addition, there are three anonymous astronomical and mathematical treatises. Of all of these texts, it was surely Richard of Bury's Philobiblon that attracted Parker to this manuscript, since the Archbishop and the erstwhile bishop of Durham shared a love of books not simply for their contents, but as objects in themselves.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  3-26 - Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera || Joh. de Sacro Bosco de Sphaera

  incipit: (3) Tractatum de spera in quattuor capitula diuidimus

  Note: (4) Only one diagram

  explicit: (23) tota mundi machina dissoluetur

  rubric: (23) Explicit tractatus de spera

  Note: pp. 24-26 blank

  
  

  27-44 - Commentarius opus metricum de compoto manuali || Compotus manualis

  incipit: (27) Compotus iste diuiditur in sex partes quarum prima docet inuenire literam dominicalem

  Note: Ends with verses

  explicit: (44) Non licet hic licet hic hic non licet hic licet hic nonEst aries taurus gemini cancer leo uirgoLibra est scorpio architenens caper amphora piscis

  Note: (45) blank

  
  

  46-76 - Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus || Alexander de Villa dei de algorismo

  incipit: (46) Hec algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua

  Note: (76) With prose insertions: ending

  explicit: (76) et habebis 22 que est summa predicte progressionis. hec iam dicta sufficiant ad dei laudem. Amen

  
  

  77-96 - The Theory of the Moon || Theorica lunae

  incipit: (77) Circulus ecentricus circulus egresse cuspidis et egredientis centri idem sunt

  Note: Spaces and whole pages left blank for figures

  explicit: (96) quod sit eclipsis lune in oppositione

  rubric: (96) Explicit theorica lune

  
  

  97-126 - The Theory of the Planets || Theorica planetarum

  incipit: (97) Circa theoricam trium superiorum est sciendum

  Note: No diagrams inserted

  explicit: (126) et ideo luna non retro graditur vide figuram

  rubric: (126) Explicit theorica planetarum

  
  

  127-204 - Richard of Bury, Philobiblon || Ricardi de Bury Philobiblon

  incipit: (127) Uniuersis Christo fidelibus ad quos tenor presentis scripture peruenerit Ric. de Bury miseracione diuina dunelmensis episcopus. Quid retribuam domino pro omnibus que retribuit michi

  Note: Ends imperfectly

  explicit: (202) ac eiusdem concedit perpetuum fruibilis fa|-ciei conspectum

  Note: This and the colophon are added in a Parkerian hand

  
  

  205-339 - pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum (incl. Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum) || PS.-Aristotelis Secreta Secretorum

  Note: (203) On the first page are a receipt and memorial verses on the sees of England and on musical notes [excerpt from De octo tonis]

  Note: (204) blank

  Note: Prologues

  incipit: (205) Domino suo.. Guidoni viro de valencia ... Philippus

  explicit: (208) feliciter peruenire

  Note: (208) Capitula of the ten books

  incipit: (213) Deus eternus custodiat regem nostrum

  explicit: (215) alie naciones

  incipit: (215) Iohannes qui transtulit hunc librum

  explicit: (216) sub hac forma

  rubric: (216) (Epistola Aristotelis missa regi Alexandro)

  incipit: (216) O fili gloriosissime

  Note: The division into ten books indicated in the capitula is not fully preserved in the text

  Note: (225) Liber II (of capitula) de temperamento potestatis legis begins on p. 225 not noted in text

  Note: (298) Liber III. de forma iusticie, etc. p. 298 noted in margin

  Note: (302) Liber IV. de baiulis regis, etc. p. 302

  Note: (320) Liber V. de scribis, etc. p. 320

  Note: (321) Liber VI. de nunciis p. 321

  Note: (322) Liber VII. de propositis regum, etc. p. 322

  Note: (323) Liber VIII. de dispensacione, etc. p. 323

  Note: (326) Liber IX. de regimine bellatorum, etc. p. 326

  Note: (330) Liber X. qui dicitur phisonomia aristotelis p. 330

  Note: (339) Ending

  explicit: (339) ad meliorem et probaciorem partem. Completus est tract. de signis et moribus naturalibus hominum ad Regem magnificum Alex. qui dominatus fuit toti orbi dictus monarcha in septentrione

  rubric: (339) ffinito libro sit laus et gloria Christo. precium iiijs (?)

  Note: (340) blank

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