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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 5292

s. XVIin.

Or.:

University of Vienna; the Ptolemaic section (f. 1r-65v) is glossed by Johannes Vögelin and was copied by him in MS Vienna, ÖNB, 5273 (see).

Prov.:

Vienna, Stadtbibliothek.

Paper, 317 f., several hands, one of which copied f. 1-65.

Astronomy, computus and mathematics: Ptolemaica (1r-65v); ‘Canones Albionis per magistrum Ioannem de Regio Monte [Regiomontanus] compositi. In limbo prime faciei matris…’ (69r-77r); ‘Canones pro astrolabio magistri Ioannis de Regio Monte [Regiomontanus]. Verum locum Solis in dorso astrolabii…’ (77v-86r); Peurbach, Canones pro compositione et usu gnomonis geometrici (86v-93v); Regiomontanus, De torqueto (95r-103v); William of Conches, Dragmaticon (105r-156r), with diagram (157r); Ametus filius Josephi [Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf], Liber de proportione et proportionalitate (158r-179v); ‘Incipit tractatus de reprobationibus epiiciclorum (!) et eccentricorum magistri Iulmam (?). Inest autem investigare volentibus pro opere bene…’ (180r-197v – this texts differs from Henry of Langenstein’s De reprobatione eccentricorum et epiciclorum); ‘Autores calendarii nostri duo principaliter…’ (199r-209v); ‘Ad correctionem calendarii invente sunt tres vie…’ (210r-219r); John of Murs and Firminus de Bellavalle, De correctione calendarii epistola ad Clementem VI papam (221r-229v); Johannes de Thermis, De tempore celebrationis paschalis ad Innocentium VI papam (231r-242v); John of Gmunden, Compositio quadrantis novi seu magni cum eius practica, second part on use (243r-257r); ‘Incipiunt utilitates quadrantis cursoris. Et primo de altitudinis Solis. Dicto de compositione quadrantis communiter dicendum est…’ (257v-258v); quadrant ‘Quoniam tota doctrina data in quadrante…’ (259r-264r); astrolabe ‘Verbi gratia, sit dares erecta perpendiculariter super superficiem…’ (264v-265v); ‘Compositio instrumenti linee meridionalis. Instrumentum ad lineam meridianam…’ (272r-272v); Jordanus de Nemore (?), De proportionibus (274r-275v); ‘Omnium punctorum duorum in superficie rotundae piramidis…’ (275v-276v); Euclid, Data (276v-281r); Blasius of Parma, Demonstrationes in theorica planetarum (281v-302r); Peurbach, Fabrica et usus instrumenti pro veris coniunctionibus et oppositionibus Solis et Lune ‘Cum animadvertissem quoddam instrumentum…’ (304r-305r), with note ‘Argumentum Solis habetur. Si aux Solis pro tempore…’ (305r-305v); Peurbach, Theoricae novae planetarum (306r-313v). Blank: 66-68, 94, 104, 156v, 157v, 198, 219v-220, 230, 266-271, 273, 302v-303v, 314-317.

Bibl. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter Graecos et Orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, IV: Cod. 5001-6500, Wien, 1870, 88-89; F. Unterkircher, Inventar der illuminierten Handschriften, Inkunabeln und Frühdrucke der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, I: Die abendländischen Handschriften, Wien, 1957, 105; M. Roland, Die Handschriften der alten Wiener Stadtbibliothek in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Wien, 1999, 117-120; C. P. E. Nothaft, ‘The Chronological Treatise Autores Kalendarii of 1317, Attributed to John of Murs: Text and Introduction’, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen Age Grec et Latin 82 (2013), 1-89: 29-30; C. P. E. Nothaft, ‘John of Murs and the Treatise Autores kalendarii (1317): A Problem of Authorship’, Sudhoffs Archiv 99 (2015), 209-229: 214-215; H. Zepeda, The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), Turnhout, 2018, 66-67.

1r–⁠65v

‘Omnium recte philosophantium verisimilibus coniecturis credibilibus argumentis (53v) tenebrarum sic se habent. Explicit liber sextus. Deprehense sunt et prima quidem eclipsium fuit in XVIIIo anno Adriani cum verus locus Solis omnibus sic constitutis LE lineabo in superficie circuli altitudinis.’

= Almagesti minor (C.1.4)

. The section on f. 53v-65v corresponds to IV.12-V.13, which the scribe had skipped on f. 29r, where he left a note in the margin referring the reader to ‘in fine libri’. This misplaced section matches up with folio changes in Cracow, BJ, 1924, which was therefore the likely exemplar of the present MS. Marginal notes by the scribe and by Johannes Vögelin.