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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 312

s. XIII^ex-XIVⁱⁿ.

Prov.:

Pierre Roger of Maumont (1291-1352, future Pope Clement VI, 1342-1352), cf. f. 45v: ‘In isto volumine continentur isti libri per ordinem et sunt P<etri> Rotgerii de Malomonte, monachi Caze Dei [La Chaise-Dieu]’.

Parchment, 45 f., a single neat hand, reserved initials.

Astronomy and astrology: Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. John of Seville (1r-8vb); Azarchel, Saphea, tr. Johannes Brixiensis and Prophatius Judeus (8vb-13vb); Azarchel, Saphea, tr. Guillelmus Anglicus (13vb-15ra); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (15ra-18ra); Ptolemaica (18ra-25ra); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (25ra-26ra); Alcabitius, Introductorius (26ra-35ra); canons of Toledan tables (35ra-42vb); Jafar, Liber imbrium, attr. Albumasar (43ra-45ra); Hermann of Carinthia, Liber imbrium (45ra-45vb); added note, including owner’s note and table of contents (45v).

Bibl. A. Maier, Codices Burghesiani Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Vaticano, 1952, 354-357; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 276; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 176.

18ra–⁠24vb	‘Incipit Centilogium Ptholomei cum commento Haly. <D>ixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Disme (!), libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… I. <S>ciencia stellarum ex te et illis… Commentum. <Q>uod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras scire desiderat — et ego Deum precor ut te dirigat. Perfecta est huius libri translatio 17 die mensis Marcii, 12 die menses (!) Gumedi secundi anno Arabum 1302.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filii Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1) . Occasional short marginal notes by the scribe.
24vb–⁠25ra	‘<P>tho<lome>us dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt 14 (!) — in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Explicit C.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4) . One gloss by a later hand f. 24v-25r.

18ra–⁠24vb

‘Incipit Centilogium Ptholomei cum commento Haly. <D>ixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Disme (!), libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… I. <S>ciencia stellarum ex te et illis… Commentum. <Q>uod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras scire desiderat — et ego Deum precor ut te dirigat. Perfecta est huius libri translatio 17 die mensis Marcii, 12 die menses (!) Gumedi secundi anno Arabum 1302.’

= Abuiafar Hamet filii Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1)

. Occasional short marginal notes by the scribe.

24vb–⁠25ra

‘<P>tho<lome>us dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt 14 (!) — in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Explicit C.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4)

. One gloss by a later hand f. 24v-25r.