De Geometria '... Incipiunt libri Minicii Manlii Seuerini Boetii Artis Geometricae numero quinque ab Eoclide translati de Greco in Latinum.', written in the 11th cent.

File

MS. Douce 125

Held at the Weston Library

The five books are:

(p. 1) the liber de Geometria (Migne's Patrol. Lot. lxiii. 1352-64) here placed as bks. 1 - 2:
(p. 22) Euclid, bks. 1 - 4, here bks. 3 - 4 (Migne, ibid. 1307 - 29)
(p. 53) 'Incipit altercatio duorum geumetricorum de figuris numeris et mensuris': beg. 'Mensura est quicquid pondere', parts of which correspond with parts of Migne, ibid. 1335 - There is a large number of illustrations, and several rubrics.

'H B' is on p. 68 (13th or 14th cent.).

Dates

74 pages

MS. Douce 125

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 21699

Our best descriptions for medieval items in this collection are in Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MSS. Douce.

On parchment

9 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.

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