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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Sloane 1773

s. XVI.

Or.:

England (Oxford?), autograph of John Robyns (d. 1558).

Prov.:

Thomas Allen.

Paper, 117 f., a single hand, sloppy and difficult to read.

Astrology: John Robyns, Annotationes astrologicae (1r-55v); list of eight books attributed to Hermes (56r); Ptolemaica (57r-117v). Blank: 56v.

Bibl. Catalogue of Sloane Manuscripts, IV, s.l.n.d. (handwritten catalogue), f. 508.

57r–⁠117v

‘Epitome in Apotelesmata Ptolomaei. Caput primum. Duo principia sunt et maxima (sus.: candissime (?) et intime meorum amicorum mi Sire (corr. ex. Messori)) que ad accidentium futurorum cognitione exiguntur. Declaratio textus. Iste Sirus (corr. ex Messorius) erat quidam medicus Ptolomeo familiaris, cui hunc librum apotelesmaticum dedicavit. Hec duo maiora et nobiliora quorum hic facit mentionem Ptolomeus sunt astrologia quadrivialis et scientia apostelesmatica, est ea astrologie pars que de iudiciis et astrorum effectibus tractat — hactenus de prefationis expositione in his tribus capitulis dicta sufficiunt. Caput quartum.’

= John Robyns, Epitome in Apotelesmata Ptolomaei (C.2.19)

. Chapter I.1, 57r-62v; I.2, 62v-86v; I.3, 86v-117v. Corrections by the scribe.