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Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Amplon. Q. 376

s. XIV^med (f. 1-117vb copied in 1349, cf. f. 116rb: ‘Expliciunt canones de primo mobili magistri Iohannis de Lineriis anno domino 1349°, die 19 mensis Iunii, in monasterio’).

Or.:

an unnamed monastery (see above). Schum indicates Münster, but does not provide justification.

Prov.:

Amplonius Rating (1363-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412.

Parchment, 150 f., three contemporary hands (f. 1ra-117vb, 117vb-119va, 122ra-150ra).

Astrology, astronomy, mathematics and physics: Albumasar, Introductorium maius, tr. John of Seville (1ra-92vb); Ptolemaica (94va-105va and 105va-105vb); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (106ra-107ra); John of Ligneres, Canones primi mobilis (107rb-116rb); canons of Toledan tables (116rb-117vb); Jordanus of Nemore (?), De proportionibus (117vb-119va); Alhazen, De speculis comburentibus (122ra-126ra); Euclid, De speculis (126ra-139rb); astronomical diagrams (139v-142v); Liber de ponderibus (143ra-144va); De ratione ponderis (144va-148rb); ‘Si fuerit aliquod corpus ex duobus mixtum…’ (148rb-150ra); table of contents, added late 14^th c. (150v). Blank: 93r-94r, 119vb-121v, 150rb.

Lit.

W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 629-631; R. Lemay, Abū Ma‘šar al-Balḫī [Albumasar]: Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam judiciorum astrorum, Napoli, 1995-1996, IV, 112-114; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb at-Tamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Ja’far Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], New York, 1999 [unpublished], I, 228; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 112.

94va‑105va	‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio ex corporum celestium mutatione procedit, causas que rerum rimaturum primo corpora celestia contemplari, oportet. Ptolomeus: Item premisi libros in quibus tractavi de impressionibus planetarum in hoc mundo… Ptho<lome>us: Sciencia astrorum ex te et illis, nec convenit peritum illorum prophetare… Expositio. Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod cum qui res futuras prescire vult — (105ra) et quanto melius quivimus exposuimus. Tho<lome>us: Stelle cum caudis sunt 9 —in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Explicit liber anphorismorum.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), mixed with the ‘Iam premisi’ version (B.1.5). The opening sentence is from ‘Mundanorum’; v. 1-21 from ‘Iam premisi’; and v. 22-100 from ‘Mundanorum’ and, more precisely, from ‘Mundanorum 2’. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) as the last chapter on f. 105ra-105va. Glosses by the scribe or a similar hand.
105va‑105vb	‘Dixit Tho<lome>us et Hermes quod Lune locus in hora qua infunditur — et hoc expertus fuit multotiens.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora... (B.10). No glosses.

94va‑105va

‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio ex corporum celestium mutatione procedit, causas que rerum rimaturum primo corpora celestia contemplari, oportet. Ptolomeus: Item premisi libros in quibus tractavi de impressionibus planetarum in hoc mundo… Ptho<lome>us: Sciencia astrorum ex te et illis, nec convenit peritum illorum prophetare… Expositio. Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod cum qui res futuras prescire vult — (105ra) et quanto melius quivimus exposuimus. Tho<lome>us: Stelle cum caudis sunt 9 —in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Explicit liber anphorismorum.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), mixed with the ‘Iam premisi’ version (B.1.5). The opening sentence is from ‘Mundanorum’; v. 1-21 from ‘Iam premisi’; and v. 22-100 from ‘Mundanorum’ and, more precisely, from ‘Mundanorum 2’. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) as the last chapter on f. 105ra-105va. Glosses by the scribe or a similar hand.

105va‑105vb

‘Dixit Tho<lome>us et Hermes quod Lune locus in hora qua infunditur — et hoc expertus fuit multotiens.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora... (B.10). No glosses.