Some pages from an early 12th century manuscript.
MS Oxford, St. John’s College 17.
[Medieval Manuscripts, England, 12th century]
MS Oxford, St. John’s College 17 is a collection of texts and extracts from texts on mathematics, astronomy, time, calendar, alphabets and writing systems, medicine and the natural world, illustrated with tables and diagrams. The manuscript was produced c. 1110 in Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire. It is believed to be largely based on a miscellany assembled by Byrhtferth (writing c. 985-1020), an Anglo-Saxon scholar at the abbey of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. This miscellany (of which St. John’s College 17 is believed to be a copy) was a chief source of his Enchiridion, a commentary on computus (astronomical science that grew around calendar). St. John’s College 17 is invaluable for understanding the structure of Enchiridion, the methods of work of scholars such as Byrthferth, and Anglo-Saxon science in general. The manuscript includes annals of Thorney Abbey, the works by Bede, Helperic, Byrhtferth’s Epilogus, or preface to the computistical texts in the anthology, and other scientific texts. Four folios were removed from the manuscript by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton in about 1623. These leaves are now in the British Library where they form part of British Library MS Cotton Nero C.vii. They are included here, making the manuscript available in its complete form for the first time in centuries.
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annaxmalina
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