Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 169: Tables and Calendars etc.

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 169 is a printed book containing two texts published in 1518 and 1559, but containing at the beginning and end manuscript notes and verses on astronomical and other subjects.
Contents: Diametri et distantiae planetarum -- Johann Stoeffler, Calendarium Romanum magnum -- Calendarium Romanum magnum -- The Shepherd's Calendar -- Compound Manuell in Latin -- Tables for the meting of timber

Description

Alternative title	Tables, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language	Latin; English
Material	Paper
Height (mm)	295
Width (mm)	202
Foliation	ff. i-iv + pp. (1-2 missing) 3-290 (291-292 missing) + 293-560 + ff. 560a-j + pp. 561-572 + ff. v-viii

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xvi
Augmented James Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kp582rv5171/169.pdf
Original James Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kc991tv2905/MS_169.pdf
Contains	Title Diametri et distantiae planetarum. 3-14 Nasmith Diametri et distantiae planetarum Incipit Diameter terre est 6500 miliaria Note Followed by notes of measures of length, distances of planets, verses on the same: all in Parkerian hand, pp.3-5 Title Calendarium Romanum magnum. 15-292 Nasmith Calendarium Romanum magnum, Cesareas majestati dicatum, D. Ioanne Stoeffler mathematico autore; impressum in Oppenheym per lacobum Robel die 24 Martii mensis anno 1518 Author Johann Stoeffler Note Printed and therefore not imaged Title The Shepherd's Calendar. 293-496 Nasmith The kalender of shepardes newely augmented and corrected, imprinted at London by William Powell for John Walley A. D. 1559 Note Printed and therefore not imaged Title Compound Manuell in Latin. 497-557 Nasmith A treatise of the compound manuell, Latine Incipit Sicut ait Augustinus distinct. 38 cap. (que ipsis) sacerdotes compotum scire tenentur Note Many memorial verses are interspersed Explicit Christus factus homo lauat omnes reddita trono Note A reference to "Anselm" de imagine mundi cap. xxiii follows Title Tables for the meting of timber. 560ar-571 Nasmith Tables for the meting of timber Rubric A boke to mete tymber by Note First come ten leaves of smaller size consisting entirely of figures in columns Then the same copied out on larger paper On the last page a table in writing
TJames	314
Stanley	Misc. J
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zs860hs4144
Location	MS 169
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Parker Manuscripts

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