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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Bruges, Openbare Bibliotheek, 523

s. XIII2 (f. 65-110; f. 1-45 date from the 14th c. and f. 46-63 from the late 13th or early 14th c. – my thanks to Stefan Georges for dating).

Prov.:

Ter Doest Abbey (?).

Parchment, 110 f., composite MS made of five parts, each copied by a single hand: f. 1-45, 46-63, 64-65, 66-78, 79-110.

Astrology, astronomy and computus: Alcabitius, Introductorius (1ra-15va); ‘Cum fuerit Luna cum Capite vel Cauda in uno signo est dies cavenda…’ (15va-15vb); Gergis, De significatione septem planetarum in domibus (16va-18rb); astronomy ‘Theorica est perfecta notitia rerum solo intellectu capiendarum…’ (18va-20vb); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (21ra-26vb); ‘Sciendum quod planetarum quidam sunt…’ (26vb-28va); Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, De magnete (28va-31ra); John of Murs, Demonstratio quantitatis et figure maris aenei Salomonis (31ra-32v); John of Saxony, Canones (33ra-44vb); Petrus de Sancto Audomaro, Quadrans novus, attr. Prophatius Judeus only (46r-62r), with unfinished drawings of a quadrant (62v-63r); Pliny, De presagiis temporum (64r-65r); Ptolemaica (66r-78v); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (79r-85v); Sacrobosco, Algorismus (86r-90v); Robert Grosseteste, Compotus (91r-110r). Blank: 16r, 45, 63v, 65v.

Bibl. A. De Poorter, M. Alliaume, ‘Catalogue des manuscrits mathématiques et astronomiques de la Bibliothèque de Bruges’, Annales de la Société d’Emulation de Bruges 65 (1915-1922), 13-50: 31-34; A. De Poorter, Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges, Gembloux-Paris, 1934, 615-618; F. S. Pedersen, Petri Philomenae de Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro opera quadrivalia, København, 1983-1984, II, 574; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 235; A. Lohr, C. P. E. Nothaft, Robert Grosseteste’s Compotus, Oxford, 2019, 25.

66r–⁠78v

‘Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Iesure, libros de hoc quod operatur (!) stelle in hoc seculo… Sciencia stellarum ex te et illis est… Quod dixit Pthol<omeus>, ex te et illis est, significat quod qui res futuras — et ego Deum precor ut te diligat. Perfecta libri translatio … (?) die mensis Marcii et die mensis Iumedi secundi anno 530. Expliciunt Verba Tpholomei (!).’