The works of Giovanni Fontana

The works of Giovanni Fontana

Abstracted from Marshall Clagett, The Life and Works of Giovanni Fontana, Annali dell’Istituto e museo di storia della scienza di Firenze 1 (1976) 5-28.

Nova compositio horologii
Bologna, Bibl. Univ. 2705, 1r-51v. 15th century.

Horologium aqueum
Bologna, Bibl. Univ. 2705, 1r-51v. 15th century.

Tractatus (or Metrologum) de pisce, cane et volucre
Bologna, Bibl. Univ. 2705, 1r-51v. 15th century.

Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum figuris et fictitiis literis conscriptus
Munich, Staatsbibl. Icon. 242, 1r-70r

Secretum de thesauro experimentorum ymaginationis hominum
Paris, BN Nouv. acquis. lat. 635

Notes on the Liber de speculis comburentibus of Alhazen
Paris, BN lat 9335, 134r

Tractatus de trigono balisterio
Oxford, Bodl Libr. Canon. Misc. 47

Liber de omnibus rebus naturalibus quae continentur in mundo, videlicet coelestibus et terrestribus necnon mathematicis et de angelis motoribus quae coelorum
Venice, 1544, falsely attributed to Pompilius Azalus

A medical recipe of Magister Johannes Font. de Venetiis
MS no 101 (147) of the library of Baldassarre Boncompagni at Rome, whereabouts unknown

Works not yet discovered

Liber de ponderibus

Libellus de aquae ductibus

De laberintis libellus

Artis pictoriae canones ad Iacobum Bellinum

De spera solida

Tractatus major de trigono balistario

De speculo medicinali

De rotalegis omnium generum

Tractatus diversorum modorum horologii mixti

Of doubtful attribution

De speculo mukefi
Oxford, Bodl. Libr. Canon. Misc. 480, 47r-54r. 16th century.
Florence, Bibl. Med. Laur. Ashburn. 957, 95r-110v. 15th-16th century.
Vienna, Nationalbibl. 5258, 27r-38v. 15th century.
Verona, Bibl. Capitolare 206, 1r-8v. 16th century.
London, British Museum Cotton Tib. B. IX, 231r-35v. 15th century.

Protheus
Florence, Bibl. Med. Laur. Ashburn. 957, 71r-94v. Late 15th or early 16th century.