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tia00256000
- Text-inc Id:
- tia00256000
- Bod-inc Id:
- A-114
- Headings:
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Albertus Magnus
Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum.
- Analysis of content:
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a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum. Incipit: ‘[S]icut vult philosophus in pluribus locis, omnis scientia de genere bonorum est. Verumtamen enim operatio aliquando bona est, aliquando mala . . .’ Several editions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the latest available in the Bodleian Library being Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 118-53. For a paraphrase of the contents, see Thorndike II, 720-30. For an edition of a sixteenth-century English translation, see The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones and Certain Beasts: Also a Book of the Marvels of the World, ed. Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman, Series of Studies in Tudor and Stuart Literature, 2 (Oxford, 1973). For authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 df; Lynn Thorndike, ‘Further consideration of the “Experimenta”, “Speculum Astronomiae” and “De secretis mulierum” ascribed to Albertus Magnus', Speculum, 30 (1955), 413-43, at 413-23.
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b4v [Recipes for stemming menstruation, for rendering dogs mute, and against damage from dogs; computistic rules.] Incipit: ‘Videtur dicere Isidorus, quod cinis rane magne combuste portatus ad zonas valde prohibet fluxum menstruorum . . .’ Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 153-8. This is the last part of the third book of the Liber aggregationis, which in this edition follows the explicit and thus appears as a separate text. A second explicit (`Finit liber tercius') is added after the end of the text.
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b6r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: De mirabilibus mundi. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam sciuimus, quod opus sapientis est facere cessare mirabilia rerum, que apparent in conspectu . . .’ Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 158-203. For a paraphrase of the contents, see Thorndike II, 730-8. For authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 ds.
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d5v [Computistic addition.] Incipit: ‘[V]t autem, qui legeris que superius posita sunt, vberiorem fructum capias, volumus communem regulam et breuem tradere ad sciendum ortum lune secundum epactam . . .’
- Imprint:
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[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1485]. 4°.
As dated by GW; Sheppard dates [1486-9].
- Collation:
- a–d6.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00256000
GW 624;
C 171;
Goff A‑256;
Pr 1381;
BSB‑Ink A‑173; Campbell 82; Oates 789; Sheppard 965.
LCN: 14292597
- Copies:
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A-114(1)
Copy
Binding: Eighteenth-century English red morocco; gold-tooled border and centre-piece; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 204 × 145 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 140 mm.
Manuscript pagination: 291-337. On d6r an early manuscript recipe: ‘Teneas masticem in ore masticando et trahis humores e capite.’
Initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce A 291.
