Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 11253
s. XV.
Prov.:bought by the Vatican in 1916 (inner front cover).
Paper, 109 f. Composite MS made of six parts, of which the third (f. 55-81) was copied by two hands (I: f. 55-61 and 74-81; II: f. 62-73).
Natural philosophy (f. 55-81): Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum, excerpt on physiognomy ‘Incipit physonomia Aristotelis. Discipuli siquidem Ypaciatis sapientis proiuxerunt formam eius…’ (55r-61v); Ptolemaica (62r-73v); ‘Incipit virtutes herbarum. Absinteon decoctum cum sanguine caprino et de mane potatum…’ (74r-81v). The other parts contain mainly classical and humanistic texts (Dares Phrygius, Vergerius, Plutarch, Poliziano etc.).
Bibl. R. De Maio, Inventarium codicum Vaticanorum Latinorum 11151-11265 (typed catalogue dated 1969), 57; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, VI, London-Leiden, 1992, 348-349.
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62r–73v
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‘Nota inveniend… (?) [rest of title illegible]. Primo nativitates cuiuslibet hominis. Ad inveniendum signum nativitatis cuiuslibet hominis accipe nomen eius et nomen sue matris… Inferiora corpora reguntur a superioribus, ut patet per astrologos et sapientes… (63r) De Ariete. Natus sub Ariete, a medio Marcii usque ad medium Aprilis, erit magne industrie, nec dives nec multum pauper — fideliter vivent tam vir quam mulier. Hec vobis dicta tamquam pro nunc sufficiant etc. Explicit.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Liber de nativitatibus hominum (B.11)
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