Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 16211
s. XIIIex (glosses by another hand mentioning the years 1292 and 1285, f. 1v and 10v) or perhaps XIIIex-XIVin, as suggested by Pedersen.
Or.:northern France, MS perhaps copied for Philippe of Dunois (see Prov.).
Prov.:Philippe, archdeacon of Dunois, who bequeathed the MS to the college of Sorbonne at an unknown date before 1338 (cf. f. Iv: ‘Iste liber est pauperum magistrorum de Sorbona ex legato Phi<lippi> Dunen<sis> archid<iaconus>…’); the MS is glossed by John of Murs.
Parchment, II+111 f., a single neat hand, decorated initials.
Astronomy: table of contents, 14th c. (Iv); table of contents, modern (Iv); canons of Toledan tables (1ra-21vb); added astronomical notes (partly fainted), including a table and the Arabic names of months and signs (IIv); Toledan tables (22r-98r); added note ‘Sinus est duplex, est enim sinus proprie…’ (99r); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (100ra-104ra); Ptolemaica (104rb-108rb); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (108rb-110rb); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (110rb-111vb). Blank: Ir, IIr, 98v, 99v.
Bibl. L. Delisle, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, II, Paris, 1874, 170; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 167; L. Miolo, Le fonds scientifique d’un collège de théologie: le cas de la bibliothèque de Sorbonne 1257-1500, PhD dissertation, Université Lumières Lyon 2, 2017, II, 115-120.
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104rb–108rb
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‘Incipit liber Thebith Bechorach de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― aut propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Expletus est liber Thebith filii Core de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti.’ |
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