PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7817

s. XV2 (copied in 1469, cf. f. 56v).

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France.

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notes f. 118r by two hands from the 15th and 15th-16th c.: ‘Petrus de Romies (?)’ and ‘A maistre Jehan Le Valloys, cure de Syrville’ [Surville, near Le Havre]; Antoine Lancelot (d. 1740); library of the kings of France before c. 1740.

Parchment, 118 f., a single neat hand, painted initials.

Miscellanea, including alchemy, natural philosophy and astrology: ‘Ad presulem dignissimus antistiten Parisiense humilis suus Eg<idius?> Pafisiace ecclesie canonicus de laudibus curie parlamenti incipit. Mirari debet nullus…’ (1r-2v); ‘Incipit formula honest evite. Quatuor virtutum species multorum sapientium…’ (3r-8r); ‘Bonaventura in tertio Sententiarum distinctione…’ (8v); Isidore of Seville, Synonyma (9r-40v); notes ‘Prima Marie Magdalene. Iohannes XXo…’ (40v-41v); Pseudo-Arnold of Villanova, De vita philosophorum (42r-56v); Arnold of Villanova, De vinis (57r-76r); Arnold of Villanova, De aquis laxativis (76v-83v); Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, Book X (84v-110r); Ptolemaica (110v-118r).

Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 400; C. Samaran, R. Marichal, Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste, II: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds latin (Nos 1 à 8000), Paris, 1962, 431; A. Calvet, ‘Le De vita philosophorum du pseudo-Arnaud de Villeneuve, texte du manuscrit B. N. lat. 7817 édité et traduit’, Chrysopœia 4 (1990-1991), 35-79: 44; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 182-183.

110v–⁠118r

‘Ad inveniendum signum nativitatis cuiuslibet hominis, recipe nomen eius et nomen sue matris… Inferiora reguntur a superioribus ut patet per astrologos et sapientes… (111r) Natus sub Ariete a medio Martii usque ad medium Aprilis erit magne industrie — dies Martis et Saturni mali istis tam viris quam mulieribus, fideliter vivent tam viri quam mulieres.’