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

Parchment — 56 fols. — s. XIII^4/4 / s. XIV^1/4

Layout: Written in two columns, 34 lines

Script: Northern textualis.

Selected bibliography:See Archives et manuscrits.

1ra-2ra Excerptum de astrologia ›Iginus philosophus de imaginibus celi‹ Duo sunt extremi uertices mundi quos appelant polos … — … usque decurrit aspiciens.

2ra-6rb Excerptio Abbonis ex Higino de figuratione signorum Denique dicit plinius in omnia sunt LXXII signa … — … ad VIIIam partem cancri redit ›Explicit.‹

6va-21rb ›Incipit prologus cuiusdam doctoris clarissimi anselmi super librum quod dicitur ymago mundi‹ On ff. 15vb-17vb chapter "de coelo" (on the zones, zodiac, and the other constellations, circles)

21va-24vb liber de consummatione saeculi ›In nomine christi incipit liber methodii episcopi et martyris quem de ebreo et greo sermone in latinum transferre curauit de principio seculi et fine seculorum quem beatus jeronimus in pusculis suis collaudauit‹ Sciendum itaque fratres est carissimi quod in principio creauit deus celum

24vb-26va ›Qualiter debeant fieri organa‹ Si quis concordiam organorum scire uoluit ita inchoare studeat Diagram of the intervals.

27r-v Blank.

28ra-32va ›Modus agendi colores et distemperandi‹ De synopide. Sinopidem hoc modo conficies

33r-34v Blank.

35ra-49vb Varia experimenta chymica ›Liber quintus de extrauagantibus nouis experimentis. Auri nouitas occultanda leuissima‹ Post antiquorum studia nimium approbanda Second part ot the text in French.

50va- ›Compositio et ars nobilis ad arma facienda, ad incidendum omnem lapidem, vitrum et ferrum‹ Antiqui philosophi temperamentum ferri sic faciebant

51va-56ra Alia experimenta chymica Quo modo fiat album hypanitum

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