Medieval and Premodern History

This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation. The section on music is followed by works on arithmetic and astronomy, particularly concerning the astrolabe and astrology.

Leaves 1 recto-2 verso. 3 astrological tables and 4 circular diagrams, one referring to the year 1203 -- leaves 3 recto-37 verso.

This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library, MS M.785 (c. 1403).

Contents: A folded calendar-almanac (imperfect), beginning at July, with tables of dominical letters, astronomical diagrams and prognostications and dates of significant biblical and historical events. The 13 inner folds contain a series of diagrams and tables.

Origin: France, Central (Paris) and England.

This is a transcript of David Gregory's Notes on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, composed, it is said at Newton's request.