PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1964

s. XVex (1494, see colophon).

Or.:

copied by Martinus Biem de Olkusz at the University of Cracow (colophon).

Prov.:

‘A clarissimo domino Valentino Fontano accepi una cum astrolabio aeneo per dominum Casparum Solscium, Simonis Simonitae ex sorore nepotem. Iohannes Broscius [Jan Brożek, 1585-1652] m<anu> p<ropria>’ (inner front cover).

Paper, 170 f., a single hand.

Ptolemaica (single text). Blank: 1v, 170v (f. 1r not in reproductions).

Bibl. W. Wisłocki, Katalog rękopisόw Biblijoteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, II, Krakόw, 1881, 477-478; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 373 (no. 1912); M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 306.

2r–⁠170r

‘Incipit liber Iebri exposicionum super Almagesti Ptholomei. <S>cientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est declaratio eius. Completus est tractatus nonus et ultimus libri Iebri, quem transtulit magister Gerardus Cremonensis in Toleto de Arabico in Latinum. Finitus est 8 die Aprilis anno a nativitate Christi 1494 currente in Cra<coviensi> universitate. Per me magistrum Martinum de Ilkusch, tunc in bursa Ierusalem permanentem et in duabus septimanis est scriptus et completus, videlicet a dominica Iudica usque ad Pascham (colophon added, same hand).’

= Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)

. Preface, 2r-4v; I, 4v-23r; II, 23v-43r; III, 43r-51r; IV, 51r-68r; V, 68r-94r; VI, 94r-119v; VII, 119v-145v; VIII, 145v-154v; IX, 154v-170r. Glosses by the scribe.