Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad (787-886)
This quaestio disputata by the Augustinian Johannes of Paltz (around 1445-1511) is a perfect illustration of the working methods of medieval scholasticism. The manuscript was written in Erfurt in the summer of 1486 and has as its topic the refutation of three errors. The first regards those who claim “to be able to calculate and foresee the Last Judgment.” It seems that this document is the only handwritten version of this text, which is known through two printed editions from the 15th century. Franz Xaver Karker (1812-1892), Canon of the Cathedral of Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), donated this work to the Fribourg library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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This small but extensive (198 ff.) prayer book is written in a variant of North German (Middle Low German). In accordance with the female form in many of the prayers, it was intended for a woman. With the exception of one full-page miniature depicting Christ as the gardener before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), all illuminations have been removed. An ex-libris on the front pastedown informs us that this small manuscript was a gift to the Fribourg Library in 1891 from Franz Xaver Karker, canon of Wroclaw Cathedral.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanistic script, was commissioned by Pope Leo X († 1521). The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding's cover, in a rich frieze on the frontispiece, and in the initials on f. 3v and f. 134v. The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525) or his circle. This codex is from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Attavanti, Attavante (Illuminator) | Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Leo X., Papst (Patron) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript of mainly astrological-astronomical content includes a journal of weather observations kept over seven years, the so-called Basler Wettermanuskript. It records meteorological observations in daily entries from January 1, 1399 until March 21, 1406, without a single gap. Towards the end of the journal, the entries become more schematic, until finally they transition to tables of the positions of the planets with only occasional comments on the weather. The volume is from the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad: Tractatus de significatione latitudinum planetarum (50rb-52vb)
Incipit: Debes considerare planetam hora revolucionis et facere latitudines eorum
Explicit: quia non errabis si deus voluerit
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- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad: Capitulum de gravitate et levitate annonae (56rb-56vb)
Incipit: Capitulum in sciencia gravitatis et levitatis annone. Scies hoc ex utrisque planetis superioribus, quia gravitas
Explicit: et ad ipsum planetam, et iam patefeci tibi hoc in libro naturarum maiori
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- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad: Flores astrologiae: De institutione domini anni (58ra-rb)
Incipit: Oportet te primum scire dominum anni. Sciencia huius rei scitur hora introitus solis
Explicit: terminus triplicitas et facies, ipse est quem quaeris
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- Ptolemaeus, Claudius: Excerpta ex Ptolemaei quadripartito et Albumasar introductorio magno (73va-77rb)
Incipit: Nota quod Ptolomeus loquens in quadripartito de natura seu complexione stellarum fixarum et hoc de complexione essenciali earum
Explicit: et ex tempore retrogradacionis usque quo iungantur soli frigida
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- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad: Liber introductorius exc. (80ra-83va)
Incipit: Nota quod due sunt nature planetarum, una est inseparabilis
Explicit: maxime accipiuntur pluvie
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- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arnoldus, de Villa Nova (Author) | Dorotheus, Sidonius (Author) | Eschuid, Johannes (Author) | Georgius, Antiochenus (Author) | Grosseteste, Robertus (Author) | Guilelmus, de Aragonia (Author) | Hermannus, Dalmata (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ibn-Abī-'r-Riǧāl, Abu-'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī (Author) | Jerg, Philosophus (Author) | Johannes, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Hispalensis (Translator) | Kindī, Ja'kûb Ibn-Ishâk al (Author) | Makīn Ibn-al-ʿAmīd, Ǧirǧīs al- (Author) | Māšā'allāh, Ibn-Aṯarī (Author) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Author) | Qabīṣī, Abu-'ṣ-Ṣaqr ʿAbd-al-ʿAzīz Ibn-ʿUṯmān al- (Author) | Sahl Ibn-Bišr (Author) | Schretz, Heinricus (Annotator) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume was written in the 13th century, probably by two alternating hands from France; it contains various astrological writings of Hellenistic-Arabic origin in the Latin translation of John of Seville, such as the Centiloquium Ptolemaei, as well as texts by Māšā'allāh, Alfraganus and Albumasar. This manuscript was part of the chained library of the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
- Abū-Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar Ibn-Muḥammad: De magnis coniunctionibus, Iohanne Hispalensi interprete (28v-84v)
Incipit: Tractatus primus qualiter aspicitur ex parte coniunctionum
Explicit: cum voluntate dei et eius auxilio. Et quia domino adiuvante corroborante iam pervenimus ad illud quod narrare voluimus de complemento differencie secunde tractatus octavi nobis complentibus ipsum. Iam ergo complevimus totum librum.
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Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can be dated to the 15th century. It belonged to Franz Miklosich (1813-1891), one of the most important Slavicists of his time, and was a gift to the Basel Antiques Collection, the precursor of the Basel Historical Museum.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description