Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13084 (draft description)

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Astronomical-computistical collection

Aratea text: Hyginus, De astronomia; De ordine ac positione

Upper Rhine / Strasbourg (?) — s. XII1/4

Selected literature: Remak-Honnef, Elisabeth and Hermann Hauke. Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München: Die Handschriften der ehemaligen Mannheimer HB Clm 10001-10930. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991, pp. 143-147. — Klemm, Elisabeth: Die romanischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek: Teil 2. Die Bistümer Freising und Augsburg, verschiedene deutsche Provenienzen. Textband. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1988, pp. 212-214. — Juste, David. ‘Comput et Divination Chez Abbon de Fleury’. In Abbon de Fleury. Philosophie, Science et Comput Autour de l’an Mil, edited by Barbara Obrist, 95–127. Paris-Villejuif: CNRS, 2004. — Blume, Dieter, Mechthild Haffner, and Wolfgang Metzger. Sternbilder des Mittelalters: der gemalte Himmel zwischen Wissenschaft und Phantasie. Vol. I, 1: Text und Katalog der Handschriften. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012, pp. 139-140, 383-388.

1r-4r Illustrations of the constellations with verse inscriptions

later (s. XV) addition on the upper margin of f. 1v: "Iste figure usque ad manus pertinent ad kalendarium […]". Missing one leaf between ff. 2 and 3.

4v-5v Illustrations explaining how to express numbers using fingers Tres digiti in sinistra manu I auricularis medicus impudicus usque ad VIIII continent numerum … — … per iuncturas semper usque ad DCCCC milia. later (s. XV) addition on the upper margin of f. 4v: "Iste manus et ymagines humane sequentes ad librum venerabilis bede presbyteri de temporibus infrascriptum requirunture intelligendum". According to Borst the explanatory text is taken from the Libri computi, III 1.

6r-7v Diagrams for the division of disciplines.

8r De signis mortis et vitae Incipit prognostica mortis Avis quis prima die cuiusque mensis in infirmitatem deciderit … — … uenenum si adest uenenum sudando prodit. Thorndike-Kibre 1260/5.

8v Horologium viatorum

8v Verses listing the original manuscript's contents Multiplices usus sub corde uoluminis huius … — … Maior erit finis anatholius omnibus illis.

9r-10v Calendar Missing probably two folios with the months July-December.

11r-v Computistical argumenta and table

11v-12r Abbo Floriacensis.

12v "Sol est ubique altissimus in meridie, quando altum facit solstitium. Unde consequitur, ut in illo loco in quo altum solstitium est in medio orbe signorum, id est in aequinoctiali circulo sit altissimus in meridie. Sed cum teste uisu sol procedat a tropico hiemali in capricorno et ita ab extremitate australis sui cursus redeat in arietem et ibi altum faciat solstitium in linea aequinoctiali manifestum est, ut omne spacium in descensum expendat, quod post ingressum arietis usque ad cancri principium transcurrit. Est autem descensus ab ariete in cancrum tantus quantus ascensus a capricorno est in arietem. Hinc est consequentia, ut circulus arietis et libre in ibi habitantibus altum faciat solstitium pendens super caput eorum. Unde dicit lucanus "Deprensum est hunc esse polum quo circulus alti soltitii medium signorum percutit orbem" ( (Lucanus, Pharsalia, lib. IX, vv. 531-32)). Id est in quo polo et in qua plaga uel in quo climate circulus alti solstitii percutit, id est adtingit medium orbem signorum, id est aequinoctialem lineam quia ipsa aequinoctiali in linea ipse est circulus solstitialis. Aequinoctialis autem circulus ideo orbis signorum dicitur medius, quia est inter septentrionalia signa et australia. Australia signa sunt quae uergunt ad austrum ut Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. Septentrionalia autem signa sunt, quae magis se ad septentrionem porrigunt, ut Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo. Sed Aries et Libra sunt media, quia nec ita tendunt in austrum ut Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, nec ita se in septentrionem extendunt ut Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo; sed in medietate orientis emergunt, ut in medietate occidentis occidunt non obliqua meant. Ibi perpetuum ostendit aequinoctium sed eiusdem quantitatis circulum diei noctisque describit. Cum indirectum circuli et super terram et sub terra sint extensi, non potet aliter fieri quin aequalitas sit longitudinis breuitatisue noctis et diei ut in subsequenti descriptione exemplum poteris repperire."Everywhere the sun is at its highest point at midday, when it makes the high solstices. It follows therefore, that in that place, where the high solstice is, is in the mi

20v-21r Apuleian sphere According to Juste it is the sphere type modified by Abbo of Fleury.


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