Beinecke MS 397               France [?] or Germany [?], s. XII^^ex
Hermannus Contractus (1 bifolium, 1 fragment)

1.  f. 1r-v  //uel alris [signs to represent stars] uel ita [signs]
et est in cigno...
harenosa et ceteras partes per mauros//; f. 2r-v  [quan]//tum spacii numerus
ipsorum graduum in hac linea a corausto...Ex his iuxta regulam circuli et
diametrici crassitudinem//

     Hermannus Contractus.  De utilitatibus astrolabii, text of bifolium not
continuous:  f. 1r-v, Book 1. 17-19 (PL 143.401-03); f. 2r-v, Book 2. 1-3 (PL
143.406-08).

2.  f. 3r-v  Fragment of a single leaf with narrow strip of text ca. 22 mm.
wide.  //ita .xii. in eo spa//...[H]oc modo alhanca//

     Hermannus Contractus, Liber de mensura astrolabii, Book 1, portions of
chs. 5-6 (PL 143.385-87).

     Parchment, ff. 1-2:  bifolium with individual leaf measuring 201 x 125
(161 x 70) mm.; f. 3:  fragment 202 x 63 mm.  36 long lines.  Prickings along
outer edge.  Romanesque minuscule verging on gothic bookhand.  Plain initials,
3- to 2-line, headings and horizontal lines for chart in orange.  Diagram of
dial on f. 2r; star chart on f. 3v.

Written in France [?] or possibly Germany [?], at the end of the 12th century.
Annotated by several contemporary hands, in Latin.
Bifolium used as a wrapper for a book numbered "5311".  Owned in 17th or 18th
century by a German who wrote in the margin (f. 2v).  Purchased from H. P. Kraus
in 1969 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.

Barbara A. Shailor