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CLARE COLLEGE LIBRARY.
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This is written in 33 lines to a page in a hand like the best of
the first part of the volume, about f. 39: but it is a better
hand and does not degenerate. There is a large and beautiful
initial. The prologue ends on f. 145 b·.
a principio prime domorum questionum.
Expl. prohemium Alfadhol fil. Sehel in aug. stell.
The rest is in tabular form, each section consisting of lines
numbered from 1 to 12. Each line begins Quesiuisti. There
are 144 sections.
Ending f. 169 b·. Expl. liber Alf. filius Sehel in aug. stell.
Finitur liber iste sit laus et gratia tibi christe.
16. a. Inc. flores Albumasar de electionibus . . . . f. 170
In nomine dei incipiunt electiones quas albumasar compilauit.
In the same hand: double columns of 51 lines.
The sections are mostly tables (from 1 to 53). 54-67 are con-
tinuous prose. 54 is headed Capitulum in naratione saturni
etc. Hunc librutn intellerunt (!) romani, etc.
Ending f. 172 b-. et rnaris animalium.
Finitur liber iste sit laus et gracia tibi Christe. Digby 48, no. 21.
b. One column, probably in the same hand . . . 173
Predictions of eclipses of the moon in the years 1273-5-6-7,
1281-2-4-6.
The rest of the leaf is blank.
17. In a hand of Italian aspect, which on f. 175 b developes into
one like that of no. 16 (43 lines to a page) with an initial of
French work.
Inc. liber geumancie 174
Figura prima dicitur domus uite corporis.
The figures are at first given in the margin.
On f. 184 the tract seems to end : in comparationem bestiarum.
Explicit.
But three more paragraphs follow, apparently supplying an
omission in the text. These end on f. 184 b with the colophon
qui finit hunc librum ualeat ascendere in celum. Amen.
18. In an English hand, double columns of 56 lines.
Inc. practica auium . . . . . . . · 185
Ex prirnis legum cunabilis impericie mee solacium querens
scemam virorum honestatisque sigillum mente ne sancto viri
deinceps videar contrarius et honeste pretendi pocius conde-
scenderem. igitur ut principi nostro excellentissimo. E.
turrensi opus hoc meum...in .v. particulas diuisi,
quarum prima continetur qualiter aquila et simachus et
theodosion tholo(meo) imperatori cgipti scripserunt...Secunda
continet (quid) grecus alexander grecus medicus cosme
scripsit. Tertia quid gnosius (girosius) hyspanus theodosio
imperatori. Quarta quid Alardus anglicus nepoti suo interro-
ganti responderit. Quinta quid M. G, de Monte P. expertus
sit et sic liber terminatur,
c. c. c.
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15]
This is written in 33 lines to a page in a hand like the best of
the first part of the volume, about f. 39: but it is a better
hand and does not degenerate. There is a large and beautiful
initial. The prologue ends on f. 145 b·.
a principio prime domorum questionum.
Expl. prohemium Alfadhol fil. Sehel in aug. stell.
The rest is in tabular form, each section consisting of lines
numbered from 1 to 12. Each line begins Quesiuisti. There
are 144 sections.
Ending f. 169 b·. Expl. liber Alf. filius Sehel in aug. stell.
Finitur liber iste sit laus et gratia tibi christe.
16. a. Inc. flores Albumasar de electionibus . . . . f. 170
In nomine dei incipiunt electiones quas albumasar compilauit.
In the same hand: double columns of 51 lines.
The sections are mostly tables (from 1 to 53). 54-67 are con-
tinuous prose. 54 is headed Capitulum in naratione saturni
etc. Hunc librutn intellerunt (!) romani, etc.
Ending f. 172 b-. et rnaris animalium.
Finitur liber iste sit laus et gracia tibi Christe. Digby 48, no. 21.
b. One column, probably in the same hand . . . 173
Predictions of eclipses of the moon in the years 1273-5-6-7,
1281-2-4-6.
The rest of the leaf is blank.
17. In a hand of Italian aspect, which on f. 175 b developes into
one like that of no. 16 (43 lines to a page) with an initial of
French work.
Inc. liber geumancie 174
Figura prima dicitur domus uite corporis.
The figures are at first given in the margin.
On f. 184 the tract seems to end : in comparationem bestiarum.
Explicit.
But three more paragraphs follow, apparently supplying an
omission in the text. These end on f. 184 b with the colophon
qui finit hunc librum ualeat ascendere in celum. Amen.
18. In an English hand, double columns of 56 lines.
Inc. practica auium . . . . . . . · 185
Ex prirnis legum cunabilis impericie mee solacium querens
scemam virorum honestatisque sigillum mente ne sancto viri
deinceps videar contrarius et honeste pretendi pocius conde-
scenderem. igitur ut principi nostro excellentissimo. E.
turrensi opus hoc meum...in .v. particulas diuisi,
quarum prima continetur qualiter aquila et simachus et
theodosion tholo(meo) imperatori cgipti scripserunt...Secunda
continet (quid) grecus alexander grecus medicus cosme
scripsit. Tertia quid gnosius (girosius) hyspanus theodosio
imperatori. Quarta quid Alardus anglicus nepoti suo interro-
ganti responderit. Quinta quid M. G, de Monte P. expertus
sit et sic liber terminatur,
c. c. c.
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