Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7413
s. XIIIex (after 1281, date of the translation of Abraham Avenezra’s De mundo vel seculo).
Or.:probably France.
Prov.:this MS may have been used by Simon de Boesmare in the 15th c., for f. II/21ra-35va contain exactly the same selection of texts and excerpts as f. 130r-143v of Paris, BnF, lat. 7443 (see); Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (d. 1710), archbishop of Reims; library of the kings of France in 1700; stolen by Joseph Barrois (d. 1855).
Parchment, 2 vols (59+75 f.), which originally formed one volume (until stolen and dismembered by Barrois), several similar hands.
Astronomy and astrology: Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (I/1r-18v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (I/18v-25v); Aomar, De nativitatibus (I/26r-44v); Haly Embrani, De electionibus horarum (I/45ra-57rb); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (I/57rb-59ra); added astronomical/astrological table (I/59v); Albohali, De nativitatibus, tr. Johannes Toletanus, truncated (II/1ra-9va); ‘Cum planete habent in signis terminos per tabulam memorie descriptos…’ (II/9va-9vb); ‘Incipit epistola cuiusdam de signis et causis modernorum. Ignorantie nostre signa sunt et laus. Unum signum est opinionum diversitas…’ (II/9vb-11ra); ‘Incipit Epistola de ratione mixti. Mixtum autem estimo fieri non ex pluribus elementis…’ (II/11ra-13ra); Jordanus de Nemore, De plana spera (II/13ra-18v); added astronomical notes (II/19r); John of London, De motu octave spere (II/19va-21ra); Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (II/21ra-24ra); Astronomia Ypocratis (II/24ra-28va); Alkindi (?), Saturnus in Ariete sub radiis… (II/28va-30rb); Ptolemaica (II/30rb-30vb); Zael, Liber iudiciorum (II/30vb-35va: Introductorium c. 18-22, Quinquaginta precepta and De interrogationibus c. 1-7); John of London, star table for 1246 in Paris (II/36r); star table 1233 (II/36v); Robert Grosseteste, De sphera (II/37ra-44ra); astronomical paragraph ‘Quociens iste medius motus Lune…’ (II/44ra-44rb); Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris (II/44rb-48rb); ‘In faciendo almanak sunt primo extrahendi medii cursus...’ (II/48rb-50ra); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. Gerard of Cremona (II/50ra-75va); fragmentary text, crossed out: ‘Scito quod nomen Grecum cuius interpretatio est acceptio…’ (II/75vb). The original MS can be reconstructed thanks to the entries of the catalogue of 1744 (Catalogus codicum), whose numbers are given here in brackets: (1-2) = I/1r-25v; (3-5) = three texts no longer in the MS: Abraham Avenezra, De mundo vel seculo, tr. Henry Bate of Mechelen; Guillelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa; and a second copy of Theorica planetarum Gerardi; (6-12) = II/19va-75va; (13-16) = II/1ra-19r; (17-19) = I/26r-59r.
Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 353-354; L. Delisle, Catalogue des manuscrits des fonds Libri et Barrois, Paris, 1888, 221-225; L. Moulinier-Brogi, Guillaume l’Anglais, le frondeur de l’uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe siècle), Genève, 2011, 244-245; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 143-145.
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II/30rb–30vb
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‘Dixit Pht<olome>us et Hermes quod locus Lune hora in qua — expertus fuit multociens et cetera.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5)
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