PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Dep. Erf. CA 2º 394

s. XIV1 (after 1331, date of John of Saxony’s comm. on Alcabitius; table dated 1347 f. 119ra).

Or.:

probably England.

Prov.:

Amplonius Rating de Berga (c. 1365-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412.

Parchment, 167 f., several similar hands, one of which copied f. 2r-57v and perhaps other parts, decorated initials, homogeneous decoration throughout.

Astrology and astronomy: Zael, Quinquaginta precepta, beginning gone (1ra-1vb); Ptolemaica (2ra-57vb); fragment of an astronomical or astrological text, partly illegible (58ra-58rb); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (60ra-67rb); Pseudo-John of Seville, Epitome totius astrologie (68ra-79ra); Haly Embrani, De electionibus horarum (79ra-85va); Capitula Almansoris (85vb-87ra); Michael Scot, De noticia ordinum stellarum fixarum celi seu ymaginum 48 (87rb-91vb); Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum (92ra-110vb), followed by an empty circular diagram (111r); Johannes de Sicilia, Expositio super canones tabularum Arzachelis sive Toletanarum (111va-119rb); equatorium ‘Quoniam experimentum sermonum verorum…’, with a table dated 1347 (119rb-119vb); canons of Toledan tables (120ra-128va); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (128va-130vb); Prophatius Judeus, Quadrans novus (130vb-135rb); unfinished astronomical diagram (135v); Guillelmus Anglicus, Astrologia (136ra-140vb); ‘Incipit de mensurationis Iohannis de Lineriis [John of Ligneres]…’ (140vb-141rb); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (141rb-141vb); ‘Kardaga est portio circuli…’ (142ra-144vb); Giles of Lessines, Summa de temporibus, fragment of Book III (145ra-147vb); Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris, attr. ‘Haly’ (147vb-148ra); Petrus de Dacia, Expositio super Algorismum (148rb-154vb); John of Saxony, comm. on Alcabitius’s Introductorius (155ra-167va); onomancy, calculus of the victorious and the vanquished ‘Omnis sapientia a domino Deo…’ (167va-167vb); table of contents (inner back cover). Blank: 58v-59v, 67v.

Bibl. W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 276-278; F. S. Pedersen, Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro opera quadrivalia, København, 1983-1984, I, 73; F. S. Pedersen, Scriptum Johannis de Sicilia super canones Azarchelis de tabulis Toletanis, København, 1986, 28-29; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 107.

2ra–⁠57vb

‘Scire et intelligere gloriosum est quia omnis sapientia a Deo est (rubric). Scire et intelligere gloriosum est quia omnis sapientia a Deo est… (2rb) Tractatus primus gloze Haly Abenrudiani super prima parte Quadripartiti Ptho<lom>ei Pheludiani. Haly: Verba que dixit sapientissimus Ptholo<me>us in arte iudiciorum astronomie… (2vb) Ptholomeus: Res, o Mizori, quibus proficiuntur pronosticationes accepte de astronomia maiores et nobiliores sunt due — et si Sol et infortune dominabuntur in istis predictis locis et fuerint…’

= Haly Abenrudian, Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2)

. Translator’s preface, 2ra-2rb; Haly’s preface, 2rb-2vb; I, 2vb-21ra; II, 21ra-35va (ending in II.11: ‘Et totum signum Geminorum facit temperantiam…’, with the rest of f. 35va and 35vb left blank); III, 36ra-51rb (beginning in III.7: ‘… inpedimentum pestilentie non per rem apparentem sicut res…’ with note by the scribe in upper margin ‘Hic deficiunt quindecim folia’); IV, 51rb-57vb (ending abruptly in IV.6 at the bottom of f. 57v). No glosses. Text (fainted) added by the scribe in the margins of f. 36r and at the bottom of f. 36v-42v.