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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Sloane 702

s. XVex (probably c. 1482, cf. notes on the calculation of conjunctions 1482-1500, f. 11r; mention of the year 1469 f. 20r).

Prov.:

‘A Georgio Herlin Augusten’ (f. 1r).

Paper, 33 f., a single neat hand.

Astrology and astronomy, short texts, excerpts and notes: world map (1v); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium, excerpts (2r-3r); planetary periods (3v); notes on signs and planets ‘Duodecim sunt signa zodiaci…’ (4r-4v); Alcabitius, Introductorius, excerpt on exaltations (4v); astrometeorology ‘In consideratione Solis et Lune, considera signum ascendens…’ (5r-5v); Alcabitius, Introductorius, excerpt on aspects (5v); ‘Item nota quando puer nascitur consideratur illa hora…’ (6r); ‘Qui cursum Lune recte scire voluerit…’ (6r); astronomical calendar (6v-7r); ‘Aries. Nil capiti facias Aries…’ (7v); Alkindi (?), Saturnus in Ariete sub radiis… (8r-9v); definitions of ‘ortus’, ‘occasus’, ‘progressio’ and ‘retrogradatio’ (9v); Ptolemaica (10r); ‘Dicit quid astronomus et expertum est…’ (10r); Abraham Avenezra, De mundo vel seculo, tr. Henry Bate of Mechelen, excerpt ‘Super rerum caristia. Omnes sapientes astrorum dicunt quod signa aerea et ignea…’ (10v); ‘De prognosticatione frumenti seu bladi. Dicit Messehala si Luna se prius coniungit Iovi…’ (10v); astronomical calendar (11r-11v); tables of terms, decans and degrees from Alcabitius, Introductorius (12r-13r); ‘Sol est masculinus et diurnus…’ (13r); ‘Tabula parva domorum. Primum domus initium corporis et vite…’ 13v); ‘Regio Arietis est Persa et Babilonia…’ (13v); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (14r-16r); horoscopic diagram summarising the 12 houses (16r); on the four elements (16v); ‘Utrum cometa sit exaltatio calida et sicca…’ (17r-18r, added bifolium); ‘Cometes licet appareat quasi stella…’ 19r); table of stations and retrogradations (19v); paper instruments (20r-22v); ‘Notandum est de domino anni. Qui vult invenire dominum anni…’ (23r); ‘De Ariete. Cum Luna fuerit in Ariete, signo orientali, calido et sicco…’ (23r-24v); ‘septem planetis. Saturnus est nobis remotissimus, frigidus est…’ (25r-25v); ‘De bonitate et malicia planetarum. Planetarum alii boni, alii mali…’ (25v); ‘De operibus planetarum circa fetum in utero matris. Saturnus mense primo naturam coagulare…’ (25v-26r); coordinates of seven climates (26r); ‘De natura capitis Draconis. Capud Draconis est masculus…’ (26v); Alchandreana, excerpt on the Dragon (26v); on 28 lunar mansions (27r-27v); Alchandreana, excerpts on planets (28r); ‘Saturnus habet pro domibus Capricornum et Aquarium…’ (28r); ‘De minutione brathiorum (!). Pro minuendo melius quod esse potest…’ (28v); zodiac-man (29r); astrological notes (29v); ‘Omnis planeta dum tegitur radiis Solis donec appareat…’ (30r); ‘De libris vero nigromanticis prime preiudicio melioris…’ (30r); ‘Saturnus planeta malivolus, nocturnus, ponderosus…’ (30v); ‘Incipit Messehalach de septem mundi climatibus. Initium primi climatis est ex parte orientali…’ (31r-31v); ‘Temperies causas pluviarum et aeris mutationem et causas ventorum et nubilorum…’ (31v-32r); Albumasar, Flores, excerpt (32v); coordinates of 23 cities (33r); empty horoscope (33v). Blank: 1r, 18v.

Bibl. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Sloananiae, I, s.l.n.d., 132-133; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (xe siècle), Leiden-Boston, 2007, 331.

10r

‘De hora nativitatis puerorum. Ptholomeus et Hermes dixerunt quod locus Lune in hora in qua infunditur sperma — et gradus ubi eam inveneris erit ascendens nativitatis.’