Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 2194-95 (draft description)
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Computistical collection with Bede (?)

Aratea text: Excerptio Abbonis ex Higino de figuratione signorum; Excerptum de astrologia

Parchment — (i) + 56 + (i) fols. — 222 × 150 mm

Script: Early gothic scirpt.

Selected bibliography:J. Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, II (Bruxelles, 1902), pp. 293-294, nr. 1355. — Entry in Jordanus. — Boutemy, André: Notes sur des manuscrits classiques de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Supplément au catalogue de P. Thomas). III. Le manuscrit 2194-2195, in: Latomus 3 (1939), 128-37. — Michel, Henri: Les manuscrits astronomiques de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, in: Ciel et Terre 65 (1949), 201. — Silvestre, Hubert: Incipits des traités médiévaux de sciences expérimentales dans les mss. latins de Bruxelles, in: Scriptorium 5 (1951), 151, 159.

Part 1

England (?) — s. XII

1r Fragment: Proverbia Senecae per ordinem alphabeti (?) timere quod uitari non potest … — … zelari autem hominibus viciosum est.

1v Computistical argumenta (?)

2r-7v Calendar

8r Computistical argumenta (?)

8v-48v Beda (?). Computistical argumenta ›Incipiunt [85] regule facte de compoto‹ Si invenire volueris per quam feriam

Part 2

England (?) — s. XII

49r-49v Excerptum de astrologia Duo sunt extremi vertices mundi

49v-52v Abbo of Fleury: Excerptio Abbonis ex Higino de figuratione signorum Denique dicit plinius in omnia sunt LXXII signa

52v-54v Abbo of Fleury: Sententia Abbonis de differentia circuli et sperae

54v-56r Astronomical compilation (?)

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Catalogued based on secondary literature by: Ivana Dobcheva

(draft version: 2018-12-02)
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