PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. lat. 1552

s. XV2.

Prov.:

Giovanni Angelo, Duke of Altemps (d. 1620) (cf. inner front cover: ‘Ex codicibus Ioannis Angeli ducis ab Altaemps’).

Parchment, 128 f., a single very neat hand, decorated initial f. 1r.

Astronomy and astrology: Sacrobosco, De sphera (1r-19v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (20r-32v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (33r-73v); Ptolemaica (74r-74v and 74v-82v); Hermes, Centiloquium (83r-87v); Bethen, Centiloquium (87v-92r); Capitula Almansoris (92r-99r); Hermes, Liber de accidentibus (99v-101v); ‘Cum ego Iohannes Plinus essem in Alexandria civitate Egiptiorum reperi in quodam libro qui salus vite dicebatur hec 12 experimenta quem librum fecit Archinus phylosophus et ego ipsum transtuli de Arabico in Latinum. Cum Luna fuerit in augmento in primo gradu Arietis stante in eodem gradu…’ (101v-102v); Thebit Bencora, De imaginibus, beginning only, with text crossed out and following pages teared out (102v); Michael Scot, Liber introductorius, excerpt ‘De noticia 12 domorum per quam scitur que sunt domus naturales et que occidentales…’ (103r-127v). Blank: 128.

Bibl. Inventarii codicum manuscriptorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae Ottobonianae (handwritten catalogue), I, 298v-299r.

74r–⁠74v

‘Cum proiectiones radiorum stellarum scire volueris — locus radiationis equate.’

74v–⁠82v

‘De iudiciis partium. Et primo de parte fortune, hec autem accipitur in die a Sole in Lunam, in nocte vero a Luna in Solem, et prohicitur ab ascendente. Quoniam et in primo libro partium terminos et loca posuimus, iudicia earundem subministrare proposuimus. Pars fortune et eius dominus corpus et que ad corpus attinent — partis significationem aut eius domini hiis duodecim mensibus mutatur. Explicit.’