GB 0103 MS LAT 29 - Meteorological Treatise attributed to Aristotle

1 volume containing 35 leaves

With 'Liber Josephi Rossetti Camertis' on the flyleaf before the printed item, 19th century. The manuscript was sold at the Libri sale at Sotheby's in 1861. It subsequently formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. With Graves's armorial bookplate.
GB 0103 MS LAT 29 15th century Collection (fonds) 1 volume containing 35 leaves Unknown
Written in Italy.

With 'Liber Josephi Rossetti Camertis' on the flyleaf before the printed item, 19th century. The manuscript was sold at the Libri sale at Sotheby's in 1861. It subsequently formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. With Graves's armorial bookplate.

Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478).

Open. Shelved at SR A 5d/1-2.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Latin. Humanistic hand.
Paper manuscript. The present 19th-century binding, for Graves by Tuckett, replaced a cover formed from a 12th-century vellum manuscript. Red headings. 21cm.

N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Sep 2001 Aristotle , 384-322 BC , ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Meteorology Sacro Bosco , Johannes , De , d 1244 or 1256 , mathematician and astronomer x De Sacro Bosco , Johannes x Johannes De Sacro Bosco x John of Holywood x Holywood , John of x John of Halifax x Halifax , John of

Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478).

Open. Shelved at SR A 5d/1-2.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

Latin. Humanistic hand.

N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English