London. British Library, Sloane MS 2030

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  • Latin
Title
  • Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum ; Divisio Scientiarum ; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium ; Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis ; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum ; Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor ; Proportiones competentes in Astrorum Industria ; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia ; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia ; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis ; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum ; Solinus, De Mirabilibus Mundi ; Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia ; De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates ; various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form.
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  • Preferred form
    • Solin (02..-02..)
    Original form
    • Julius Solinus, Caius, fl 3rd century
    Other form
    • Solinus, Caius Julius
    • Julius C. Solinus
    • Caii Julii Solini
    • Solin (02..-02..)
    • Solinus
    • SOLINUS (Caius Julius Solinus)
    • Solin (Caius Julius)
    • Solin
    • Solí, Gai Juli
    • Solino, Cayo Julio
    • Solinus, C. Julius, 3rd cent.?
    • Solinus, Gaius Iulius
    • Solinus, Gaius Iulius fl.3./4. Jh.
    • Author: Solinus, Gaius Julius
    • Julius Solinus, Caius, fl 3rd century
    • Iulius Solinus
    • Solinus, Caius Iulius
    • Solinus, C. Julius (active 3rd century?)
    • Solinus, C.J.
    • Solinus, Caius Julius, séc. 3
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
    Original form
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    Other form
    • Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis
    • Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • BEDA VENERABILIS
    • BEDA
    • Beda
    • BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
    • Bède
    • S. Beda venerabilis
    • Venerabilis Bedae
    • Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
    • S. Beda Venerabilis
    • Venerabilis BEDE
    • Bede
    • Bedae
    • Bedae venerabilis
    • Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
    • Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
    • Beda el Venerable, Santo
    • Beda Venerabilis 672-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Author: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Bede the Venerable
    • Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
    • Bede (673/4–735)
    • The Venerable Bede
    • Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
    • Beda<Venerabilis>
    • Bède le Vénérable
    • Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
    • Beda Scotus
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca.673-735
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca. 673-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
    • Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
    • Beda <Venerabilis>
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
    • Beda Venerabilis - 673 - 735 - auteur
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    • Avicenne (0980-1037)
    Original form
    • Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, 980-1037, also known as Avicenna
    Other form
    • Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allâh (0980-1037)
    • Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā
    • الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا
    • Avicenne
    • Al-ḤUSAYN ibn ʿAbdallah Ibn Sīna (Abū ʿAlī)
    • Avicenne (0980-1037)
    • Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā
    • Ibn Sinā
    • Ibn Sina
    • Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allâh (0980-1037)
    • Ibn Sīnā
    • Avicenne.
    • Ibn Sīnā, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
    • Ibn Sīnā Balẖī (Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd-ullāh b. Ḥasan)
    • Ḥusayn (al-) ibn ʿAlī Ibn Sīnā
    • الحسين بن علي بن سينا
    • ابن سينا، الحسين بن عبد الله (0980-1037)
    • ابن سينا
    • ابن سينا, الحسين بن عبد اللّه (0980-1037)
    • لابن سينا
    • Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allâh (0980-1037)
    • ابن سينا, الحسين بن عبد اللّه (0980-1037)
    • Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā
    • Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allâh (0980-1037)ابن سينا, الحسين بن عبد اللّه (0980-1037)
    • Avicen
    • Avicenne (0980-1037)
    • ‫ אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה ‬
    • ابن سينا, الحسين بن عبد اللّه
    • ‫ אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה
    • Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allâh (0980-1037). Canon (hébreu)
    • Yiśraʾeliy, Yiṣḥaq ben Šlomoh (0855?-0955?)
    • AVICENNA
    • Avicenna
    • Author: Avicenna
    • Avicenna (Abu ‘Ali al-Husain ibn ‘Abdallah Ibn Sina)
    • Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037)
    • Avicenna (Abu 'Ali al-Husain ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina)
    • Avicenne (0980?-1037)
    • Avicenna (980-1037)
    • Auicenna
    • Avicena, 980-1037 > , ant. bibliog.
    • Avicena, 980-1037
    • Avicenna - 980 - 1037 - auteur
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    • Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079)
    Original form
    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
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    • PLINIUS
    • Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079)
    • Pline l'Ancien
    • C. Plinius Secundus
    • Plinius Major (0023-0079)
    • Plinii
    • Plinius maior
    • Pline l'Ancien 0023-0079
    • Plinio Segundo, Cayo
    • Plini Segon, Gai, ca. 24-79
    • Plinius de Oudere
    • Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79
    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Author: Plinius Secundus, Gaius
    • Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder)
    • Pliny the Elder
    • Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079). Auteur d'oeuvre adaptée ou continuée
    • Plinius Secundus
    • Pliny the Elder, 23-79
    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Plinius Secundus Maior, Caius (23/24-79 na Chr)
    • Plinius Secundus, Gaius
    • Plínio, o Velho, 23/24 -79
    • Gaius Plinius Secundus Maior - ca. 23 - 79 - auteur
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    • Claude Ptolémée (auteur prétendu)
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Ptolemy, fl 10th century
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    • PTOLÉMÉE Carpus*
    • Ptolémée, Claude (auteur prétendu)
    • Pseudo-Ptolémée
    • Ptolemaeus, Claudius (auteur prétendu)
    • Ptolemaeus
    • Ptolemaei
    • Claudius Ptolemaeus, auteur prétendu
    • Pseudo Ptolemeu
    • Pseudo-Ptolemy
    • Pseudo Ptolomeo
    • Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Pseudo-)
    • Ps.-Ptolemaeus
    • Claudius Ptolemaeus - ca. 100 - ca. 175 - auteur (apocrief)
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    • Aristote (auteur prétendu, 0099-0001 av. J.-C.)
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Aristotle, fl 300 BC
    Other form
    • 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
    • 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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    • Sahl ibn Bišr (07..?-0850?)
    Original form
    • Sahl ibn Bishr, 787-886, also known as Zahel
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    • Zehel
    • Zaëlis
    • Zahel
    • Author: Sahl Ibn-Bišr
    • Zaehel Bebrit
    • Zael
    • Zahel > , co-autor
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    • Masha Allah (0730?-0815?)
    Original form
    • Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, 740-815, also known as Messahala
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    • Masha Allah (0730?-0815?)
    • Mashalla
    • Masha Alla
    • Messehalla
    • Messahallach
    • Messahallah
    • Macha-Allah
    • Masha Allah 0730?-0815?
    • Māšā'allāh Ibn-Aṯarī ca. gest. ca. 815
    • Māshāʼallāh
    • Māshāʼallāh, 730?-815?
    • Author: Māšā'allāh, Ibn-Aṯarī
    • Messahala
    • Māšāʾallāh Ibn-Aṯarī, 740-815
    • Messahalla
    • Māšā'allāh Ibn-Aṯarī
    • Messahalah, 730?-815? > , co-autor
    • Masa'allah Ibn-Atari - gest. ca. 820 - auteur
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    • Martianus Mineus Felix Capella
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    • Martianus Capella, fl 410-420
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    • Capella, Martianus
    • Martianus Capella
    • Capella, Martianus Mineus Felix
    • Martianus Mineus Felix Capella
    • Capel.la, Marcià
    • Marciano Capela
    • Martianus Capella fl.5. Jh.
    • Author: Martianus, Capella
    • Martianus <Capella>
    • Capella
    • Marcianus Capella
    • Marcianus
    • Martianus Capella (5e E)
    • Martianus
    • Martianus Capella - auteur
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    • Albumasar (0787-0886)
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    • Abū Ma'shar, c 787-c 886, astrologer, astronomer; also known as Albumasar
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    • Albumasar (0787-0886)
    • Mohammad ibn Omar Al-Balkhi Abou-Ma'achab.
    • APOMASAR
    • ALBUMAZAR
    • APOMASARIS
    • Abū Maʿšar al-Balḥī, Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (0787-0886)
    • Abou Maʿshar Djaʿfar ibn Mohammad ibn ʿOmar al-Balkhi
    • Djaʿfar ibn Mohammad ibn ʿOmar al-Balkhi (Abou Maʿshar)
    • Abū Maʿšar al-Balh̲ī, Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (0805?-0886)
    • Abū Maʿšar Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Munağğim
    • أبو معشر البلخي، جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي
    • أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد المنجم
    • Abū MAʿ&#138;AR Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Balḫī
    • Abū MAʿŠAR Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Balḫī
    • Albumassar
    • Albumasaris
    •  Albumasar (?)
    • Albumasar (?)
    • Albumazar
    • Author: Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad
    • Abu Ma'shar
    • Abū Ma’shar (d. 886)
    • Abū Maʻshar, -886
    • Abū Maʿšar al-Balẖī, Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (0805?-0886)
    • Abumasar
    • Albumasar
    • Abū-Maʿšar Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad
    • Albumasar, 805/6-886
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Description
  • This composite manuscript is made up of three parts bound together perhaps in the early modern period. The three parts include compilations of scientific texts by various authors.Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: Divisio Scientiarum (The Division of the Sciences), beginning: ‘Ut dicit Boecius in commento super Por<phyrio>’. ff. 11r-30r: Pseudo-Ptolemy (fl. 10th century), Centiloquium (One Hundred Sayings) (version ‘Mundanorum’, Book 1, Chapter 4), beginning: ‘Centilogium A Ptholomeo editus, beginning: ‘mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud’. ff. 31v-40v: Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari (also known as Messahala) (d. 815), Liber Receptionis (The Book of Receptions), beginning: ‘Invenit quidam vir ex sapientibus librum ex libris secretorum’. ff. 41r-76v: Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili (also known as Zahel) (b. 786, d. 845), Liber Iudiciorum (The Book of Sentences). ff. 79r-83r: Martianus Capella (b. 360, d. 428), De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury) (excerpts from Book 8), beginning: ‘[A]strigere iam sedis iter cursumque’ with occasional marginal glosses and corrections. ff. 83r-87r: Abū Ma`shar Ja`far (also known as Albumasar) (b. 787, d. 886), Ysagoga Minor (The Lesser Ysagoge). ff. 87r-87v: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium , beginning: ‘[D]octrina stellarum ex te et illis’. ff. 88r-94r: Proportiones Competentes in Astrorum Industria (Agreeing Proportions in the Diligence of the Stars). ff. 95r-103r: Pseudo-Aristotle (fl. 300 BC), Physiognomia (Physiognomy) (Book 4), beginning: ‘Ex qualitate corporis proprietates anime’. ff. 103r-108r: Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna) (b. 980, d. 1037), Physiognomia (Physiognomy), beginning: ‘Vox grossa caliditatem designat’. ff. 108v-110r: C. Plinius Secundus (also known as Pliny the Elder) (b. 23, d. 79), excerpt of the Historia Naturalis (History of Nature): the section De Presagiis Temporum (On the Signs of the Times) in Book 18, beginning: ‘De presagiis tempestatum’. ff. 110r-114r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum (About Communicating Fluids), beginning: Quia tuum amice Marzotom iam novi desiderium’. ff. 114r-118r:  Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’, Book 1, Chapter 4), beginning: ‘Incipit libellus de scientia astrorum. Scientia astrorum ex te et illis’. ff. 118v-124v: Solinus (fl. 3rd century), De Mirabilibus Mundi (About the Wonders of the World), beginning: ‘Nilus non tantum hominum set terrarum materna secundat. ff. 125r-126v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia (Chiromancy), beginning: 'Lineae naturales tres sunt in planicie omnis ciros’. ff. 128r-129r: De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates (On the Four Parts of the Soul, the Manner of Avoiding Sickness), beginning: ‘Quatuor sunt elementa mundi’. ff. 129r-136r: Various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form, beginning: ‘Antidotum Galieni quo utebatur solus’.The manuscript contains later additions:f. 30v: a note beginning: ‘Notandum quod 10 sunt effectus quos universaliter significat omnis cometa…’ added in a 15th-century hand.f. 1r: a list of contents of the entire manuscript added in an 18th-century hand.[ff. 1r-2v, 77r-78v, 136v are blank]Decoration: See Sloane MS 2030, ff. 3-30, 99-135; Sloane MS 2030, ff. 31-78; Sloane MS 2030, ff. 79-94.
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    • England (United Kingdom)
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    • England
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    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • 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
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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