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| | New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Smith Western Add. MS 01 | | Description: ff. i + 139 + ii - Bound in old calf; gold stamped on spine. - In the collection of W.M. Voynich; acquired with funds from the David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) Collection, 1952. - De Ricci, p. 1847; Bond and Faye, p. 326. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 9 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/SmithWesternAdd.MS01_20 | | Language: Latin Country: Flanders Century: 14th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-139v | | Description: - Parchment - 180 x 120 mm - ff. 1-39v, in 2 columns of 35 lines, ruled in lead. | | Country: Flanders | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XIV | Searchable Date Range: 1300 - 1399 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;Several hands. | | Other Decoration: Alternating 2-line red and blue initials with pen-flourishing in the contrasting color; diagrams and tables | | Number of Texts: 10 |
| | Text 1: f. 1r-v added notes; ff. 2-16 | | Author: Iohannes Peckham | | Title: De mysterio numerorum | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Omnia domine ihesu teste sapientia numero, mensura et pondere disposuisti | | Explicit: Contra ecclesiam nemo pacificus senserit. | | Notes: f. 1v contains table of contents. | |
| | Text 2: ff. 16v-18 | | Title: De quadrante | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Quadrans est spere plane quamdiu lineis et gradibus geometrice insignata ad stellarum elevationem | | Explicit: usque ad summitatem ipsius altitudinis quam inspexisti. Explicit quadrans. | |
| | Text 3: ff. 18-39v | | Author: Iohannes de Sacrobosco | | Title: De quadrante | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Omnis ars per instrumentum operativa sui instrumenti notitiam de necessitate preexigit | | Explicit: Et hec de quadrante dicta sufficiant. | 
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Last words of text on f. 38v stretched to fill lines, "Hec de umbra dicta sufficient"; table.
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| | Text 4: ff. 40-79 | | Other Associate: Iohannes de Sacrobosco, derived from? | | Title: Computus ecclesiasticus | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Dicta prius dico breviter collecta novello/ Nam qui multorum vult tollere grana librorum . . . | | Explicit: In qua perpetue det nobis gaudia vite/ Qui sine principio fuit, est et erit sine fine. Amen. | | Notes: Commentaries (?): Quoniam causa finali nichil dignius repperitur esse sed quod finis imponit necessitatem . . . Tempora distinguit equat partesque minutas . . . Computus est scientia numerationis et divisionis temporum ex solis et lune motibus . . . | |
| | Text 5: ff. 79v-80; f. 80v blank | | Author: Hermannus Contractus | | Title: Demonstratio componendi horologium | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Componitur quoddam simplex et parvulum horologicum instrumentum | | Explicit: prescripta horarum intervalla per singula signa et meses metiri valeamus. | |
| | Text 6: ff. 81-111 | | Author: Robert Grosseteste | | Title: Computus | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Capitulum primum de cause bissexti . . . Conpotus est scientia numerationis . . . | | Explicit: tempore coniunctionis vel opposicionis post medium diem Civitatis parysius. Explicit compotus episcopi linconiensis cuius anima benedicatur. | |
| | Text 7: ff. 111v-115v | | Title:
Algorimus de minutiis
| | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Omne compositum respectu suarum partium dicitur integrum | | Explicit: duarum terciarum. Explicit Algorismus. | |
| | Text 8: ff. 116-131 | | Author: Iohannes Peckham | | Title: De sphaera | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Corporum principalium mundanorum numerum et figuram et motum intendo in presenti opusculo explicare | | Explicit: Hec simplicioribus scripsi tactus precum instantia a maioribus veniam petens sicubi defeci. Explicit. | |
| | Text 9: ff. 131v-138 | | Author: Robert Grosseteste | | Title: De sphaera | | Title:
Incipit spera Domini Linconiensis.
| | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Intentio in hoc tractatu est describere figuram machine mundane | | Explicit: quam quantitate duorum semidiametrorum solis et lune. | |
| | Text 10: ff. 138v-139 | | Author: Campanus of Novara | | Title: De quadratura circuli | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Aristoteles in eo qui de kategoricis libro inscribitur dicit quadratura quidam circuli | | Explicit: Explicit quadratura circuli edita a campano. | |
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