| Description | Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: 'Sphaera Mundi', by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478). |
| CustodialHistory | With 'Liber Josephi Rossetti Camertis' on the flyleaf before the printed item, 19th century. The manuscript was sold at the Libri sale at Sotheby's in 1861. It subsequently 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. With Graves's armorial bookplate. |