Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A treatise on astronomy and astrology variously attributed to Albertus Magnus or Roger Bacon.

Contents:

f.15r-20v: "[f. 15r: text] Occasione quorundam librorum aput quos non est radix ... [f. 20v: text] ab eodem causata etc. Amen. Explicit liber Alberti qui vocatur a quibusdam speculum philosophiae."

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title and author from explicit (f. 20v): Explicit liber Alberti qui vocatur a quibusdam speculum philosophiae.
Title in Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue: Speculum philosophiae seu astrologiae.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 2 (Ms. Latin 4).
Incipit in Thorndike, L., Catalogue of Incipits (Cambridge, 1937), col. 456.
Incipit in Thorndike, 2nd ed. (1963), col. 975.
Mandonnet, Revue néoscholastique de philosophie XVII (1910), 313-335.
Albertus Magnus, Opera Omnia, 1621 (Vol. V) and 1891 (Paris, Vol. X).
Zambelli, P., The Speculum astronomiae and its enigma: astrology, theology and science in Albertus Magnus and his contemporaries (Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1992) discusses the question of authorship and provides a text in Latin and a translation.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 827

Contributor:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.

OCLC:

155925431