Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 275
s. XV2 (f. 2r-12v copied in 1469, cf. colophon).
Or.:MS assembled and partly copied by Hartmann Schedel in Nürnberg.
Prov.:Munich, library of the dukes of Bavaria.
Paper, I+197 f., two hands (I [Hartmann Schedel]: f. I-61, 158r and 192r-197; II: f. 62-157), beautiful MS with painted initial on f. 2r. F. 159-191 contain a book printed in Augsburg in 1472.
Astrology and astronomy: table of contents (Ir); astrological notes (1r); Ptolemy’s biography excerpted from Walter Burley’s De vita et moribus philosophorum: ‘Ptolomeus philosophus tempore Adriani imperatoris claruit… in quadruvialibus valde doctissimus. Hec ex libro de vita et moribus philosophorum’; Ptolemaica (2r-13r); astrological notes (13v-14r); John of Gmunden, Kalendarium 1439-1514 (14v-29r); computus tables 1463-1501 for the meridian of Nürnberg (29v-31bisr); solar and lunar tables 1464-1527 (32r-34v); canons for an almanac, in German (35r-37v), including tables for Venus (36v-37r); astronomical and astrological notes (37v-38r); Prophatius Judeus, Almanach (38v-57v); tables of houses for the latitude 48° (58r-59v); ‘Tabula stationum et directionum planetarum’ (60r-60v); Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia (61v-132r); Albumasar (?), Liber similitudinum, beginning only (132r-132v); Pierre d’Ailly, Elucidarium astronomice concordie cum theologica et historica veritate excerpts (132v-138v); Pierre d’Ailly, Apologetica defensio astronomice veritatis, excerpts (139r-139v); Pseudo-Albumasar, Astronomia de diebus creticis (139v-144r); Perscrutator, De impressionibus aeris (144r-154v); Pierre d’Ailly, Vigintiloquium de concordia astronomice veritatis cum theologia, excerpts (154v-156r); Pierre d’Ailly, De concordantia astronomice veritatis et narrationis historice, excerpts (156r-157v); notes added by Hartmann Schedel: planetary positions for 10 February 1440 and horoscope for 23 February 1479 (?) (158r); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, printed (159r-178r); Thurecensis Phisicus, judgement on the comet of 1472, printed (180r-191v); Hartmann Schedel, notes on comets (192r); Bethen, Centiloquium (192v-195r); note of Hartmann Schedel (196v); Hartmann Schedel, notes of medicine and astronomy (197r-197v). Blank: Iv, 31bisv, 61r, 158v, 178v-179v, 195v-196r.
Note
Hartmann Schedel copied both Ptolemaic sections from Munich, BSB, Clm 276 (see).
Lit.
C. Halm, G. Laubmann, Catalogus Codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis, I.1: Clm 1-2329, München, 1868, 69-70; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb at-Tamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Ja’far Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], New York, 1999 [unpublished], I, 252-253; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, I: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek de Munich, Paris, 2011, 63-64.
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2r‑12v |
‘Dixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi tibi fore libros de hoc quid operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Scientia stellarum ex te et ex illis est — et quanto melius quivimus exposuimus. Finit Centiloquium Ptolomei astrologi cum commento Halii. Scripsi Hartmannus Schedel anno domini MCCCC°LXIX° die undecima Aprilis in Nuremberga. Laus Deo optimo.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), except for the preface and v. 1-9, given in Plato of Tivoli’s translation (B.1.2), and v. 10, missing altogether. The commentary is missing for v. 1-4. The propositions of v. 11-100 are given in ‘Mundanorum 2’ only. No glosses. |
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13r |
‘Ptolomeus dixit: Iste stelle cum caudis sunt novem — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4). No glosses. |