Madrid, Biblioteca national, Ms. 3307 (draft description)
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Aratea text: De ordine ac positione; Excerptum de astrologia

Parchment — 71 fols. — 302 × 245 mm — Murbach (Borst) or Metz — 826-850

The manuscript represents a fragmentary copy of the Aachen encyclopedia (Lib. comp.). It must have been a luxury copy made perhaps for a member of the royal family (Borst, Schriften (Vol. I, pp. 248-249) suggested that the exemplar came from Aachen). The Excerptum de astrologia and the star catalogue De ordine ac positione, open the fifth book of the encyclopedia.

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Layout: Written in one column, 47 lines per page.

Selected literature: Montero Cartelle, E. Códice de Metz: una compilación medieval de cómputo y astronomía: introducción, traducción y notas. Madrid, 1994. — Cordoliani, A. Un autre manuscrit de comput ecclesiastique mal connu de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Madrid. In RABM, LXI (1955), 2. — Borst, Schriften, I, pp. 248-249.

53r-54r Excerptum de astrologia ›Excerptum de astrologia‹ Duo sunt vertices mundi quos appelant polos … — … ad ipsum usque decurrit accipiens.

54r-62v De ordine ac positione ›De ordine ac positione stellarum in signis‹ Est quidem hic ordo et positio siderum quae fixa caelo … — … Anticanis habet stelas III.

Abreviated Literature:

Borst, SchriftenBorst, Arno. Schriften zur Komputistik im Frankenreich von 721 bis 818. 3 Vols. (MGH: Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 21, 1-3) Hannover: Hahn, 2006.
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