PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. V 85

s. XV2 (before c. 1465).

Or.:

Italy.

Prov.:

Regiomontanus, who acquired the MS in Rome about 1465, glossed it and added notes on f. 78v; Bernhard Walther; Nürnberg, Ratsbibliothek. The MS was also apparently used by Johannes Schöner, who inserted Regiomontanus’s notes on dignities and debilities exactly as they appear in the present MS (f. 78v) into his Opusculum astrologicum (ed. Nürnberg, Johannes Petreius, 1539, II.38, sig. [H4]v).

Paper, 78 f., a single neat hand, except for glosses and additions by Regiomontanus.

Astrology: Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia (1r-45v); Ptolemaica (49r-78r); notes added by Regiomontanus: list of dignities and debilities according to Antonius de Monte Ulmi (78v) and distribution of Italian cities in the twelve zodiacal signs according to Franciscus de Esculo (78v). Blank: 46r-48v.

Bibl. P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 666; E. Zinner, Regiomontanus: His Life and Work, Amsterdam-New York-Oxford-Tokyo, 1990 (tr. from Leben und Wirken des Joh. Müller von Königsberg, genannt Regiomontanus, Osnabrück, 1968, with supplements), 221 (no. 61); Die Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, IV: I. Neske, Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Varia 13.-15. und 16.-18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden, 1997, 110-111.

49r–⁠78r

‘Rerum, Yesure, in quibus est pronosticabilis sciencie stellarum profectio magnas et precipuas esse deprehendimus — hoc in loco huic libro finem imponere non incongruum existimamus.’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (A.2.1)

. I, 49r-56r; II, 56v-62v; III, 62v-71v; IV, 71v-78r. Substantial glosses by Regiomontanus throughout, many of which borrowed from ‘Hali’, i.e. Haly Abenrudian.