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• Résumé : CCCC MS 420 is a compendium of astrological and astronomical tracts. Of these, Johannes Stoeffler's Ephemerides and the translation by Peter of Abano (c. 1257-1316) into Latin of Abraham ibn Ezra's astrological treatise Re'shit Ho'khmah - the Liber introductorius in iudicia astrorum qui dicitur Principium sapientiae are printed versions produced in Parker's lifetime. The first portion of the collection contains various manuscript tracts in Latin and English copied in the sixteenth century, the first of which is the preface to the Prognosticatio of Johannes Lichtenberger (d. 1503). The name John Eston appears in two places in the volume, though he and his relationship to Parker, if any, has not been identified.

  
  

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  13r-124v - Astrological and Astronomical Tracts || Tractatus valde dignus et multum approbatus quod licet permissione divina scire ventura tam per revolutionem superiorum corporum quam diversorum aliorum signorum, Or, A perfette instruccyon of astrologie with the carecters of the sygnes and planetts, and also divers other good rules and notys with many divers judgements that be necessarye and requysyte belongyng to the same.

  rubric : (13r) Sequitur tractatus valde dignus - signorum prout in prologo et aliis auctoribus sequentibus patet

  incipit : (13r) Quamquam solus deus in sua potestate

  Note : 3 pages: the 3rd has quotations from Ptolomeus, Aristoteles, Sibilla, Erigida (!), lulhardus, Turcus ad quendam Romanum Pontificem, Respons. pontificis.

  incipit : (15r) Hereafter followyth a perfett Instruccyon of Astrologie with the Carecters, etc

  Note : 21 pp. a break

  rubric : (27r) The Natyuytyes

  Note : ff. 2

  rubric : (29r) Here begynith a techynge of the newe Calender with many other helpy thynges, etc

  Note : Miscellaneous tracts or sections follow including a collection of Jugements for hidden treasure and the like

  Note : Later

  rubric : (91r) Incipit Inuolucio spere

  Note : in Latin

  incipit : (91r) Duo sunt extremi vertices mundi

  Note : This has diagrams in colour. An English version follows

  Note : A good many blank leaves follow

  Note : (117r) Then a short tract in English

  Note : (120r) and a Centiloquium also in English

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Johannes Stoeffler - author

  125r-179v - Johannes Stoeffler, Almanach noua plurimis annis uenturis inseruientia || Ephemeridum opus Ioannis Stoefleri Justingensis mathematici a capite anni redemptoris Christi MDXXXII in alios XX proxime subsequentes ad veterum imitationem accuratissimo calculo elaboratum, Tubinge anno XXXIII K. L. Feb. Cum effigie autoris ligno incisa

  Note : (125r) Printed, has at topLiber Joh. Eston prec. iii8 iiid.Tubingae per Hulderrichum Morhart anno xxxiii kal. Feb

  Note : (163r) Followed by a couple of quires mostly blank but containing some astronomical matter in Eston's hand

  
  

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  Abraham ibn Ezra - author

  180r-239v - Abraham ibn Ezra, Liber introductorius in iudicia astrorum qui dicitur Principium sapientiae, transl. by Peter of Abano || Abrahe Avenaris Judei astrologi peritissimi in re judiciali opera ab excellentissimo philosopho Petro de Abano post accuratam castigationem in Latinam traducta. Venetiis MDVII

  Note : Printed. The margins much scribbled in another hand

  Note : VeniceP. Liechtenstein, 1507