PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 472

s. XV1 (1437, cf. f. 20ra, 55rb and 102vb).

Or.:

Louvain, copied by one Tristrandus (cf. colophon f. 20ra).

Prov.:

presented to the Bodleian Library by William Camden in 1601.

Paper, XXVII+221 f., a single hand.

Astrology and astronomy: added astrological table, in Flemish (XXVIIr); table of contents (XXVIIv); Ptolemaica (1ra-20ra); John of Ligneres, Canones primi mobilis (20rb-26rb); ‘Si in quo gradu signi stella aliqua prenotata…’ (26rb-30rb); ‘Compositurus novum quadrantem accipe tabulam planam et similitudinem quarte partis circuli factam…’ (30va-35va); ‘Altitudine rei erecte in valle oculo…’ (35va-35vb); Cristannus de Prachaticz, Compositio astrolabii (36ra-41ra); Cristannus de Prachaticz, Usus astrolabii (41rb-47va); astronomical/astrological notes (47vb-49va); Sacrobosco, De sphera (49ra-55rb); Albubater, De nativitatibus (55va-102vb); Hermes, Liber de stellis beibeniis (103ra-104vb); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (105r-114r); Robertus Anglicus, Quadrans vetus (115r-120v); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (121ra-122rb); astrometeorological anthology ‘Cum volueris segetum prenoscere…’ (122va-131ra); Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia, excerpt from Book V, on comets ‘Cometa est vapor terreus…’ (131ra-132rb); Liber de significatione cometarum (132rb-142ra); Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia, excerpt from Book VI (142ra-143rb); Abraham Avenezra, Liber de nativitatibus (144ra-155vb); Alcabitius, Introductorius (156ra-174rb); table of contents of an astrological text by Haly Abenragel, in Flemish (174va-174vb); John of Saxony, comm. on Alcabitius’s Introductorius (199ra-221va). Blank: I-XXVI, 114v, 143v, 175-198.

Bibl. F. Madan, H. H. E. Craster, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, II.1, Oxford, 1922, 394-396 (no. 2492); A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, I, Oxford, 1984, 17 (no. 94); R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 257.

1ra–⁠20ra

‘Centiloquium Ptholomei. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Pesure (!), libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Scientia stellarum ex te et illis est… Cum dixit Ptholomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenosse desiderat et ego precor Deum ut te dirigat. Perfecta est huius libri translatio tertio die mensis Martii, secundo die mensis Gumedi secundi anno Arabum 5302. Expliciunt centum verba Ptholomei. Scriptus et finitus Loven. per manus Tristrandi anno domini 1437, sexto die mensis Septembris, hora 9 post meridiem.’