Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1241
s. XVex (copied in 1493, cf. 151v: ‘Anno 1493, die 27 Aprilis, hora 22’, and f. 178r: ‘Canonum pro astrolabii usu finis anno 1493 currente in Maiio (!), d<ie> 11, hora 3’; 1493 is also the date of the first item, cf. colophon f. 4v: ‘Anno 1493 sexto idus Iunias’).
Or.:probably Guilhelmus Copp of Basel, who authored the first item (1r-4v) and (in all likelihood) wrote ‘Pertinet Gulielmo Copo medico’
Prov.:Queen Christina of Sweden.
Paper, 178 f., a single hand.
Astronomy: Guilhelmus Copp of Basel, letter to Conrad Heingarter ‘Cum humane conditionis fragilitatem in animo…’ (1r-4v); astronomical diagram ‘Figura motus Solis’ (5v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (6r-32v); Ptolemaica (33r-41r); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (41v-45r); astronomical diagram, notes and tables about the size and distances of celestial bodies (45v-46v); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. John of Seville (47r-107v); chapter from the canons of the Toledan tables (107v-108r); John of Ligneres, Canones (109r-151v); astronomical tables with canons (152v-164r); ‘Astrolabii compositio. Astrolabium ita constituitur, recipe tabulas…’ (165r-170r); ‘Usus astrolabii. Scribitur primo posteriorum in omni scientia…’ (171r-178r). Blank: 5r, 108v, 152r, 164v, 170v, 178v.
Bibl. Les manuscrits de la reine de Suède au Vatican. Réédition du catalogue de Montfaucon et cotes actuelles, Vaticano, 1964 [Studi e Testi, 238], 32 (no. 498); P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, II, London-Leiden, 1977, 401; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 179.
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33r–41r
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