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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, O.III.30

s. XV2 (before 1490).

Or.:

copied by Theodore Buchinck (Monfasani); George of Trebizond corrected and annotated the MS.

Paper, 95 f., a single neat hand. One or several folia are missing at the end.

Astrology: Ptolemaica (4r-84v); George of Trebizond, Liber de antisciis et cur astrologorum iudicia plerumque fallant (85r-95v, incomplete due to missing folia). Blank: 1r-3v (except note f. 1v: ‘Omnia orta occidunt et omnia composita dissolvi necesse est, et in interitum cadere’).

Bibl. J. Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond, Binghamton (NY), 1984, 4; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, V, London-Leiden, 1990, 79; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 409.

4r–⁠84v

‘Liber Claudii Ptholomei qui vocatur fructus ad illustrissimum Alfonsum regem Aragonum et utriusque Siciliae a Georgio Trapenzuntio ex Graeco in Latinum versus. <L>ibrum Claudii Ptolomei mihi Alfonse rex inclyte traductum quem vulgo Centiloquium ipse fructum appellat… (6r) Liber Claudii Ptolomei qui vocatur fructus ad illustrissimum Alfonsum regem Aragonum et utriusque Siciliae a Georgio Trapenzuntio ex Greco in Latinum versus. <I>am pridem perutiles ad previdendum operationes stellarum, o Syre, quas in hoc composito efficiunt mundo exposuimus… Primus aphorismus. Abs te et a scientia, non est enim possibile ut huius scientiae professor particulares rerum ideas prevideat — (14v) Sin vero non moventur hostis indigena erit. Finis. (15r) Commentarii et expositiones Georgii Trapezuntii in aphorismis libri fructus Ptolomei ad Alfonsum regem Aragonum et utriusque Sicilie. <L>ibellus hic quem de Graeco traductum nomini tuo dedicavimus, illustrissime rex… (16v) Abs te et a scientia. Abs te, inquit, hoc est a quadam insita vi animi et ingenio et a scientia nature stellarum precognitio fit — ut sicut raro apparent, sic inconsueta significare videantur.’

= George of Trebizond, Commentarii et expositiones in aphorismis Libri fructus Ptolomei (C.3.11)

. George of Trebizond’s preface, 4r-5v; author’s preface, 6r; text, 6r-14v; commentary, 15r-84v. Marginal corrections by George of Trebizond.