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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7349

s. XV.

Or.:

southern France (several texts in Occitan).

Prov.:

Colbert; library of the kings of France in 1732.

Paper, 141 f., at least two hands (in chronological order, I: f. 5r-105r; II: f. 2r-4r and 106r-141r).

Astrology, astral magic, geomancy, divination and computus: notes of astrology and geomancy in French and in Occitan (2r-4r); diagram of celestial spheres, with notes (5r-5v); ‘Incipit Zael de signis 12 in zodiaco celi. Signa diversificantur ad invicem quia quedam sunt masculini sexus…’ (5v-7r); ‘Et nota quod si aliquis per opinionem voluerit vel per opinionem medicorum confortare virtutem retantivam…’ (7r-8r); ‘Hic sequitur declaratio coniunctionum omnium planetarum et eorum effectus. Notandum est etiam quod duplex est coniunctio planetarum…’ (8r-9v); ‘De planetis comatis. Coma idem est quod torta sed si qua stella cometur in oriente significat destructionem principis…’ (9v-10r); ‘Nota de regionibus signorum. Nota quod influentia coniunctionum planetarum cadit super locum ubi est regio…’ (10r-10v); ‘Nota etiam quod prenosticatio anni que habet accidere partibus mundi secundum diversitatem 12 signorum…’ (10v-13r); tonitruale ‘Incipi (!) presagium tonitruorum Bede in quolibet mense. Et primo in mense Ianuarii tonitruum sonuerit ventos validos…’ (13r-14v); Hermes/Enoch, Liber imaginum signorum (14v-18r); Figure septem planetarum ‘Incipit liber de septem figuris septem planetarum in lamibus (?). Scias quod in istis septem figuris antiqui philosophi sapientes occultaverunt…’ (18r-20v); Gergis, De significatione septem planetarum in domibus (20v-24r); ‘Incipiunt diffinitiones membrorum corporis humani et eius infirmitatem secundum Albumasar. Saturnus habet splenem et vesicam…’ (24r-24v); on the native of the 12 signs ‘Omnium istorum inferiorum vita divinatura superioribus ut habetur primo Metheorum…’ (24v-31v); lunarium ‘Luna prima quidquid videris in gaudium vertetur…’ (31v-32v); ‘Item videamus de influentiis planetarum. Et primo de Sole. Unde si quis natus fuerit hora Solis, sanguinis complexionis erit…’ (32v-33r); ‘Iste Saturnus habet Iovem pro inimico sed habet Mercurium pro amico…’ (33r); ‘Aquarius est signum firmum, calide et humide nature et dat hominem mediocris stature…’ (33r-37v); rules for computing the zodiacal position of the Moon (37v); ‘Ad inveniendum dies Egiptiacos. Augurio decies audito…’ (37v-38r); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium, fragments (38r-38v); ‘Sicut sunt quatuor elementa ita sunt 4 humores…’ (38v-40r); ‘Sequitur de arte algorismi. Et nota primo quod 9 sunt chifre seu figure…’ (40r-40v); Petrus Hispanus, Tractatus mirabilis aquarum (41r-45r); sortes ‘Lege istos psalmos… A significat vitam vel potestatem…’ (45v-46r); Revelatio Esdrae ‘Hyemps bona erit, ventosum…’ (46r-46v); tonitrualia ‘Si igitur tonaverit in prima feria mensis Ianuarii mors principum…’ (46v); recipes and divination (47r-48r); Somniale Danielis (48v-51r); rule for computing the age of the Moon (51r); Pseudo-Aristotle, De physiognomia ‘Discipuli quasi quidem Ypocrasis (!) viri peritissimi…’ (51v-54v); Albumasar (?), Liber similitudinum, preface (56r); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium, fragments (56v-67r); circular diagrams and notes on terms, exaltations, lunar mansions etc., in Latin and French (67v-69v); calculus of the victorious and the vanquished ‘Alphabetum de infirmo et de pugillantibus…’ (70r); circular diagram on the aspects (70v); ‘Nota quos (!) Luna stat in coniunctione Solis…’ (71r-72r); Robertus Anglicus, comm. on Sacrobosco’s De sphera, incomplete (72v-84v); ‘Sol moratur in quolibet signo per 30 diebus et 10 horas…’ (84v-85r); Proportiones competentes in astrorum industria, 42-43 (85r-86v); ‘Sequitur de Saturno … (?) secundum suam … (?), etc. Saturnus itaque est homo fuscus, non albus…’ (86v-87r); ‘Prima die Marcii levantur stelle 9, nomine Saphe et faciunt fortune tres dies…’ (87v-88r); ‘Si vis scire de aliquo viro vel mulieri egrotante utrum moriatur vel evadat…’ (88r-88v); ‘Si vis scire qualiter se habet amicus tuus vel amica tua absens…’ (88v); Benedictum sit nomen domini…, 4 (88v); ‘De duobus fratribus nomina debent numerari…’ (88v-89r); ‘De muliere nomina debent numerari...’ (89r); ‘Quia A significat vitam vel potestatem in populo, B bonam vitam…’ (89r); table of lunar mansions (89v-90r); diagram of celestial spheres (90r); ‘Sciendum est quod tempus habet plure partes…’ (90v); ‘Incipit ciromancia. Linea vite si sit grossa…’ (90v-94r); tonitruale ‘De significationibus tonytruorum quando contingunt in 12 signis. Si tronytruum (!) contingit in Ariete, erit eclypsis, ortologia erunt multa…’, added by the second hand (98v); ‘Incipiunt anuli Salamonis. Notandum est secundum ea ad quem tendimus quod primo vero opportet scire et notare quid est nobilium Lune…’ (99r-101r); ‘Scito diem, punctos, horas cum renovatur…’ (101v-103r); magical formulas, crossed out (103v); recipes and magical formulas (104r and 105r); geomancy in Occitan (106r-114v); Pseudo-Arnold of Villanova, Liber experimentorum, in Occitan (115r-118r); notes of astrology and geomancy in Occitan (118v-119v); calendar in Occitan (120r-126r); Pseudo-Arnold of Villanova, De sigillis (127r-129v); Hermes, Lectura geomantie (130v-138r); Ptolemaica (138v-141r). Blank: 1v, 4v, 55, 58v, 94v-98r, 104v, 105v, 126v, 130r, 141v.

Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 345; F. S. Pedersen, Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro opera quadrivalia, København, 1983-1984, I, 264-266; T. Charmasson, ‘Lectura geomanciae’, in Hermetis Trismegisti astrologica et divinatoria, eds G. Bos, C. Burnett et al., Turnhout, 2001 [Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 144C], 349-397: 358-366; A. Calvet, ‘Le Liber experimentorum attribué à Arnaud de Villeneuve’, in Alchimies, Occident-Orient, eds C. Kappler, S. Thiolier-Mejean, Paris, 2006, 127-137; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (xe siècle), Leiden-Boston, 2007, 356-357; K. Bernard, ‘Un texte de géomancie en occitan médiéval: un opuscule du manuscrit BN. lat. 7349’, Cahiers d’Épistémé 2 (2008), 31-58; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 123-127.

138v–⁠141r

‘Incipit archanum magni Dei revelatum Ptolomey regi arabice de reductione ad orbem. Per hoc presens opus possunt cognosci exquisite presencia, preterita et futura — Cauda * [geomantic figure of the Dragon’s Tail] inutile.’