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Peckham Manuscript


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 31

Held at: University College London

Title: Peckham Manuscript

Date(s): 15th century-16th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 6 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Peckham: educated at Oxford and Paris; a Franciscan; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1279; a prolific author of treatises on science and theology, including his work 'Perspectiva Communis' (on principles of optics, which was printed at Milan, 1482, and in many later editions) and of poetry; died, 1292. This manuscript was written in England.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 15th or 16th century, containing the 'Perspectiva Communis' of John Peckham, in three parts, beginning 'Inter philosophie consideracionis studia ... '. Bound (perhaps from the first) with two printed works, the Arithmetica of Jordanus Nemorarius, edited by Jacques le Fêvre (Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, Paris, 1496), and the Geometria speculatiua of Bradwardine (Paris, 1495).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open. Shelved at SR A QUARTO 8b/1-3.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript in 18th-century binding. One hand throughout. 25cm.

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:

Bearing the names Tho[mas] Digges and N Lancaster. The manuscript 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. Formerly Graves 3950, and bearing his bookplate.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Other manuscripts of this text survive at the British Library, Manuscript Collections, and Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts (see the Dictionary of National Biography entry for Peckham for further details).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Source: Dictionary of National Biography. 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Arithmetic | Mathematics
Geometry | Mathematics
Optics

Personal names
Bradwardine | Thomas | d 1349 | Archbishop of Canterbury
Fêvre | Jacques | Le | fl 1496 | editor of a work on arithmetic x Le Fêvre | Jacques x Fevre | Jacques | Le
Nemorarius | Jordanus | author of a work on arithmetic
Peckham | John | d 1292 | Archbishop of Canterbury x Pecham | John | De

Corporate names

Places