PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Additional 10362

s. XIV2 (probably copied in 1366-1367, cf. f. 14-25, and horoscope for a past conjunction Sun-Moon of 9 July 1366 f. 46r).

Or.:

England, probably Oxford (cf. f. 39v and tables for latitude 52° f. 47r-48r and 57-59).

Prov.:

British Museum in 1836.

Parchment, 120 f., one main hand (except for f. 71 and 114-120).

Astronomy, astrology and geomancy: astronomical notes (1r-2r); table of contents (3r-5r); astronomical tables (6r-31v), including a planetary almanac for 1367-1390 (14r-25v); Perscrutator, De impressionibus aeris, second part (32r-35v); Ptolemaica (36r-37r); ‘In prognosticationibus primo sciatur locus Solis et hora temporis et minutum hore — Ista et multa consimilia probat Pthomeus (!) in suo Centilio (!) et etiam Haly in commento eiusdem littere’ (37v-38r); astronomical-astrological diagram (38v-39r); table ‘Pro equatione domorum ad latitudinem 52 gradus, quod est Oxonie’ (39v); ‘Albumasar de floribus. Capitulum in scientia gravitatis et levitatis annone…’ (40r-40v); Pseudo-Aristotle, Iudicia (41r-46r); astronomical tables and calendar (47r-59v); Pseudo-Aristotle, Iudicia, second part (60r-70v); ‘Sicut Hermes dicit ex hora conceptionis potest haberi hora nativitatis…’ (70v); Sortes regis Amalrici, fragment (71r); ‘Quisquis curam habere cupit de geomantia…’ (71v); ‘Desiderantibus verum et certum iudicium dare secundum gloriosam et venerabilem geomantie scientiam. Primo et precipue videat…’ (72r-107v); onomancy ‘Tabula Aristotelis quam scripsit Alexandro regi magno…’ (107v-110v); ‘De nigromantia dicit Amfulsus…’ (111r-112v); sphere of Apuleius/Pythagoras (113r); fragment of a text of astronomy and computus (114v-119v). Blank: 2v, 5v, 28v, 46v, 113v (except for enigmatic notes and drawings, added), 114r, 120 (unfinished astronomical figure f. 120r).

Bibl. List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXL, London, 1843, Year 1836, 32.

36r–⁠37r

‘Ad cognoscendum per signum in firmamento serenitatem vel obscuritatem in die per Solem et nocte per Lunam… Ptholomeus: Quia quando Sol etc. Haly: Claritas Solis qui ascendit et occidit — demonstrat quod accidens continget per eum. Ista multociens videas et cito scies ea naturaliter et perfecte.’