| Location: | Cologny |
| Library / Collection: | Fondation Martin Bodmer |
| Shelfmark: | Cod. Bodmer 188 |
| Manuscript title: | William of Conches, Dragmaticon, and the Compotus, Texts on Science and Astronomy |
| Caption: | Parchment · 33 ff. · 21.0 x 13.6 cm · Western Germany (Rhineland) · about 1230 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Manuscript summary: | This manuscript contains the "Dragmaticon", a work by the scholar Wilhelm de Conches, a member of the School of Chartres. It is possible that the codex was produced in about 1230 in the area of Cologne in a scholastic circle and that it is among the oldest surviving texts of the "Dragmaticon", which is transmitted in a total of about 70 medieval manuscripts. The portable format, assorted schemata and tables provided, and the script used (Gothic cursive) indicate that the manuscript was intended for university use. The first section of the manuscript contains a computus for determining when movable feast days should fall. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-cb-0188 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0188 |
| How to quote: | Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 188: William of Conches, Dragmaticon, and the Compotus, Texts on Science and Astronomy (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0188) |
| Online since: | 05/20/2009 |
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