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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2386

s. XIV.

Prov.:

Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618)

Parchment, 8 f., a single hand.

Astronomy: Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (1ra-6va); Ptolemaica (6va-7rb); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (7rb-7vb); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (7vb-8ra); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (8rb-8vb).

Bibl. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter Graecos et Orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, II: Cod. 2001-3500, Wien, 1868, 66; M. Franz, ‘Die Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Philipp Eduard Fugger mit Berücksichtigung der Handschriften des Johannes Schöner in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek’, Codices Manuscripti 14 (1988), 61-133: 73.

6va–⁠7rb

‘Thebit de hiis que indigent expositione atequam legatur Almagesti. <E>quator est circulus maior qui describitur super 2 polos mundi — propinqui oppositioni Solis erunt retrogradi.’

= Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1)

. Two corrections by the scribe or a similar hand f. 6va.