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London, British Library, Royal 12.E.XV

s. XIII-XIV.

Prov.:

Edward IV before his accession (f. 2v: ‘Iste liber constat Edwardo comiti Marchie primogenitus filius ducis Eboraci’).

Parchment, 136 f., two hands (f. 3-18 and 19-135). The second (and main) hand is rather neat, with golden initials at the beginning.

Medicine, natural philosophy and astrology: short medical texts on bloodletting, women’s diseaces, anatomy, etc. (3r-18v); Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum (19r-116r); Ptolemaica (117r-135r); added notes on planetary distances (136v). Blank: 1-2 (except ex-libris and a few notes), 116v, 135v-136r.

Lit.

G. F. Warner, J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, II: Royal MSS 12 A.I to 20 E.X and App. 1-89, London, 1921, 54-55; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb at-Tamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Ja’far Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], New York, 1999 [unpublished], I, 249-250.

117r‑135r	‘Incipit liber 100 verborum Ptholomei. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi fore libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Verbum primum. Scientia stellarum ex te et ex illis — (132v) ad occidentem erit hostis de regno ipso. 99. De nominibus cometarum. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iste stelle cum caudis sunt II^a (!) — (133v) in regibus et divitibus apparebit. 100. Dixit Ptholomeus et Hermes: (134r) Locus Lune in hora qua infunditur — ubi eam inveneris erit ascendens nativitatis. Explicit Centilogium Ptholomei philosophi cui Deus parcat.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), except for v. 1-9, given in Plato of Tivoli’s translation (B.1.2). The commentary is missing, but this section contains unusually large margins, which have been left blank. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) on f. 132v-133v and Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.10) on f. 133v-135r, as v. 99 and 100 respectively. No glosses.

117r‑135r

‘Incipit liber 100 verborum Ptholomei. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi fore libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Verbum primum. Scientia stellarum ex te et ex illis — (132v) ad occidentem erit hostis de regno ipso. 99. De nominibus cometarum. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iste stelle cum caudis sunt II^a (!) — (133v) in regibus et divitibus apparebit. 100. Dixit Ptholomeus et Hermes: (134r) Locus Lune in hora qua infunditur — ubi eam inveneris erit ascendens nativitatis. Explicit Centilogium Ptholomei philosophi cui Deus parcat.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), except for v. 1-9, given in Plato of Tivoli’s translation (B.1.2). The commentary is missing, but this section contains unusually large margins, which have been left blank. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) on f. 132v-133v and Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.10) on f. 133v-135r, as v. 99 and 100 respectively. No glosses.