Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 657 | |
| Title: | Works of Richard Wallingford |
| Author: | Richard Wallingford |
| Contents: | Works of Richard Wallingford: liber de instrumento quondam mathematico, Albion dicto, in partes quatuor distinctus...; de Arts Componendi Rectulangum; ars operandi cum rectulango. |
| Language: | Latin |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.               |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | pastedown + ii + 75 + pastedown |
| Pagination: | Modernish large and fancy pencil numbering of folios as in other Bodley manuscripts; upper outer corner recto. |
| Quiring: | 8 ; may originally have been separate booklets; almost two quires of blank but ruled at the end. |
| Catchwords: | None |
| Page Size: | 210 x 125 |
| Frame: | 2 x vertical, 3 x horizontal (top horizontal is above the top line of text, the upper line of the two at the bottom is below the bottom line of text; ruled within some in brown crayon, some in dry-point. |
| Writing Space: | 160 x 100 |
| Title by Scribe: | On f1 as a heading is 'Incipit tractatus de instrumento qui nominatur albeon'. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red |
| Flourished Initials: | Simple 2-line Lombard initials, red wash on other initials. |
| Other Names (not owners): | On f1v and both probably written by the scribe is 'Sciendum est quod dominus Ricardus albas monasterii Sancti Albani primo composuit istum librum et per eum excogitavit et fecit instrumentum illud mirificum quod dicitur Albeon. Sed postea quidam Symon Tounstede sacre theologie professor quedam mutavit tam in libro quam in instrumento sicut patet studentibus in libro isto quedam ociam superaddidit. (A later hand has added 'Anno Dni 1326'). Hunc librum dedit dompnus Johannes de Westwyke Deo et Beate Marie et sancto Oswyno regi et martiri de Tynemuth et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus. Anima dicti Johannis et omnium fidelium anime per Dei misericordiam requiescant in pace. Amen. At the bottom of this folio is 'Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi Cantuar et Cancellarij Vniuersitatis Oxon 1633'. On f2 in the top margin is 'Tho. Horslevus' in 16th century script. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | On f42v, 'tynemuth' is written above the table 'tabula ascencionum signorum in ciclo obligato in latitudine 55 grada'. 'tynemuth' is written above 'latitudine 55 grada'. |
| Further Information: | Laud quarto catalogue, cols. 477-479. |