Details for manuscript 51

Manuscript №

51

Location

Cambridge

Collection

Corpus Christi College

Reference

133

Headnote

Algorism. Thomas Gray, Scala Chronica

Estimated date of production

s.xiv

Folia

234+3

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Produced for

Notes

"The unique copy in this manuscript, probably dating to c. 1400, was made not long after the date of the original text's completion and, since the early fifteenth century, has been bound with a late fourteenth-century copy of the Algorism, a verse and prose treatise on mathematics in Anglo-Norman and English. "; "the manuscript was almost certainly in the hands of Gerald FitzGerard, Earl of Kildare (d. 1534) and may have come to that family from a descendant of the work's original author. It was subsequently acquired by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), during his brief tenure as bishop of Ossory in 1552, and probably came to Parker from Bale's collection."

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https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/md506kt8712

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