File 8 - Tractatus de Astronomia etc

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JCOL/Q/B/8

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Tractatus de Astronomia etc

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  • 1100-1200 ((1) is in an early 12C hand, according to James; (2) is also 12C. Bound in two leaves of a 13C psalter.) (Creation)

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1 volume 10 x 7+ in., 111 ff. with varying nos of lines to a page; 2 vols in one vellum

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From Durham; donated by Thomas Man, 1685.

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Treatises on astronomy, etc.; M. R. James's no. 25. Contains: (1) an anonymous tract on celestial phenomena (apparently derived from Isidore's De naturis rerum), lacking initials and diagrams; (2) Sermones S. Augustini (96 sermons, most untitled). James gives detailed contents lists of both.

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