Astronomica

University Library, MS Hh.6.8, Part II, f. 192v
Part I: South of France, probably Toulouse, first quarter of the thirteenth century
Part II: England, end of the thirteenth century
Part I: Vellum, 173 x 124 mm (154 x 123 mm), 77 ff.
Part II: Vellum, 173 x 124 mm (111–61 x 77–92 mm), 134 ff.
(Binski Zutshi 306)

Contains, in Part I, Tabulae revolutionis solis et lunae (1–40) and Abraham bar Hiyya’s Tabulae (41–77). In Part II are found the Canones de equationae planetarum et eclipsium solis et lunae cum tabulis (80–144v), Notae astronomicae (145–147v), Tabulae astronomicae (149–184v), Messahala (translated into Latin by Iohannes Hispalensis), Astrolabium (185–198v), and Tabulae stellarum, etc. (199–213). There are numerous astronomical, planetary and lunar tables to be found in both parts of the manuscript. It is mentioned in the Registrum (1500–1524) of the brothers’ library of Syon Abbey on Syon, Middlesex, before having been acquired by John Moore (d. 1714) and then King George I, who presented it to the University Library in 1715.