IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 29
Held at: University College London
Title: Meteorological Treatise attributed to Aristotle
Date(s): 15th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 35 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Written in Italy.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin. Humanistic hand.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open. Shelved at SR A 5d/1-2.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Paper manuscript. The present 19th-century binding, for Graves by Tuckett, replaced a cover formed from a 12th-century vellum manuscript. Red headings. 21cm.
Finding aids:
N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
With 'Liber Josephi Rossetti Camertis' on the flyleaf before the printed item, 19th century. The manuscript was sold at the Libri sale at Sotheby's in 1861. It subsequently formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. With Graves's armorial bookplate.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2001