PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Redi 12

s. XVII.

Paper, 113 f., a single hand.

Ptolemaica (two texts), followed by a full chapter index (111v-113v).

Bibl. Inventorio dei codici Redi, Tempi e Rinuccini (handwritten catalogue), 8r.

1r–⁠103v

‘Claudii Ptolomaei Pelusiotae quadripartiti operis de iudiciis astrorum ad Syrum fratrem liber primus, Pancratio Florentino, monaco Vallis Umbrosano, interprete. Proemium. Cum duo sint maxima et potissima, o Syre, quae per astronomiam finem cui praesagiendi vis insita est praeparant… (2r) Cap. 1. Quod compraehendi potere astronomica scientia et quousque tendat. Omnibus profecto vim quamdam ab aethera et sempiterna natura — et causae mathematicae et causae quae oriuntur ex mixtione. Finis.’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Pancratius Florentinus) (A.2.13)

. I, 1r-30r; II, 30r-53r; III, 53v-85v; IV, 85v-103v. No glosses.

103v–⁠111r

‘Claudii Ptolemei liber qui dicitur fructus. Cum exposuerimus, o Syre, effectrices astrorum vires que in hoc composito efficiunt mundo praecognitione… 1. Abste et a scientia. Fieri enim nequit, ut qui sciens est, particulares rerum formas pronuntiet — gladio de medio ut plurimum tollentur. Finis.’