IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/15
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Arithmetica of Martianus Capella and Jordanus Nemorarius
Date(s): 13th century
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Nemorarius | Jordanus | fl 13th century | author of a work on arithmetic
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Incip. 'Igitur ex quatuor elementis' Desin 'Et hoc est qod ostendimus. Explicit' Folios 1-9 [Mundus] igitur ex quatuor elementis isdemque totis in spere modum globatis.... retrogradari facit. Part of book 8, 'De astronomia' of Martinus Capella, 'De nuptiis.'
Folios 9 verso - 49 verso (Text) Vnitas est esse rei per se discrecio...omnis numerus minor maioris aut est pars aut partes....medios assignare sit possibile. (Commentary) Aut enim minor numerat maiorem....et hoc est qod ostenimus. Explicit.
Jordanus Nemorariius, 'De Arithmetica' printed several times but with a different commentary. Printed marginalia eg in folio 24, in a hand which occurs also in MS/28.
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Language/scripts of material: Latin
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Bound volume, codex membranaceus, 51 ff, size 8.5 x 6 inches.
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British Museum, Arundel MS 200, folio 12: Magdelene College Cambridge, Pepys MS 51, 52; J O Halliwell in 'Catalogues of the miscellaneous manuscripts and of the manuscript letters in the possession of the Royal Society' (1840) states this is a quite distinct work from the 'Jordani Arithmetica' published by Faber Stapulensis at the commencement of the sixteenth century. The only other copy known of this work is in the Savilian Library at Oxford, and the distinction between the two was first pointed out by Dr Wallis in his treatise on Algebra. The rubric in the Savilian MS is 'Algorithmus Jordani tam in integris quam in fractionibus demonstratus'.
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.