Ms. codex. In Latin with German additions and occasional Greek references. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Title devised by cataloger. Secundo folio: Pro horologio... Collation: Paper, with watermarks: a hand (on folio 7 -- the original flyleaf -- and the final flyleaf, similar to Piccard 154471, dated 1512); a crown; a running horse; and a [P] surmounted by a four-leaf clover (similar to Piccard 111443, dated 1499), fol. 52 + i (contemporary free endpaper) ; 16 28+1 36 48 512−1 68 76−2 i. Folio 7 is a singleton and was originally the first flyleaf of the... Layout: 1 column, 20-28 lines. Bounding lines ruled by creasing. Script: Written in a various gothic cursives in black ink with black rubrics. Decoration: 1- to 2-line epigraphic capitals in red or black-stroked-red throughout. Binding: 16th-century leather-covered bevelled boards, the latter covered with later stippled paper, rebacked with modern adhesive cloth tape, lacking ties, early paper flyleaf and pastedown in back. Origin: Written in Germany in the late fifteenth century. Provenance: Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) with his bookstamp "Bibliotheca Halliwelliana" on fol. 2, fol. 8, and fol. 52v; his handwritten ex libris and shelfmark "98" on fol. 1v. In 1840, Halliwell sold his manuscripts en bloc to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849); it therefore seems likely that this manuscript is identical to the Peurbach manuscript owned by Rodd (and offered by him... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1927. Call number: MS q Med.209. Former call number: E.197.28. Bibliography: Ron B. Thomson and Menso Folkerts, "Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks," Beta Version 1.8 (May 2013) ; L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: 1963).
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