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Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Amplon. Q. 363

s. XIII^ex (except for f. 33-37, added in the 14^th c.).

Or.:

Italy or southern France (Schum), ‘southern’ (Pedersen).

Prov.:

the MS was probably in Paris in the first haft of the 14^th c. (cf. f. 33r-36r and 98v); Amplonius Rating (1363-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412. The note ‘Magister Iacobus Publius Florentinus, Italus et Latinus’ on f. Ir may not be related to the MS.

Parchment, 98 f., a single hand (except for f. 33-37), numerous beautifully decorated initials throughout.

Astronomy and astrology: added astronomical notes, 1347 (Iv); Toledan tables (1r-32v); added astronomical tables (33r-36r), attr. John of Ligneres (in the title f. 33r) and to one ‘Johannes de Madenburch’ in a note f. 35v: ‘Nota quod hec tabula facta est per Iohannem de Madenburch ad annum domini 1330 super meridianum Parysiensem’; table: degrees of the 12 signes grouped by triplicity (36v-37r); added astronomical notes (37v); Albumasar, Introductorium maius, tr. Hermann of Carinthia (38ra-58rb); canons of Toledan tables (58rb-64ra); Albumasar, Flores (64ra-68rb); ‘Capitulum in scientia locorum si aliquid fuerit in eis aut non. Cum hoc volueris, accipe altitudinem et constitue 12 domos…’ (68rb); ‘Cum volueris scire quantitatem longitudinis capitis Arietis et Libre…’ (68rb-68va); ‘Incipit summa Albumazar. Aries est igneum, temperatum effectus et incrementi, masculum, diurnum, colericus…’ (68va-75rb); ‘Apertio portarum dicitur cum coniugitur planeta…’ (75rb-75va); ‘Hic incipit Zahel. Fortior omnibus locis circuli est ascendens…’ (75va-89rb, this text is a compilation only partly based on Zael); Ptolemaica (89va-94ra); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii, c. 1-16 (94ra-95vb), followed without a break by other chapters on the astrolabe ‘Capitulum 14. Sume altitudinis Solis in media die… Finitur liber astrolabii editione Abitricatim de Marcheric, qui dictus est Alaiacherica’ (95vb-97ra); Hermann of Reichenau, De mensura astrolabii (97ra-98rb); added astronomical notes, 1342 and 1346-1351 (98r-98v), including ‘Anno domini 1350 perfecti radices ad Parysius’ (98v).

Lit.

W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 607-609; R. Lemay, Abū Ma‘šar al-Balḫī [Albumasar]: Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam judiciorum astrorum, Napoli, 1995-1996, VII, 8-27; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb at-Tamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Ja’far Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], New York, 1999 [unpublished], I, 340-341; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 109.

89va‑94ra	‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio corporum celestium mutatione… Scientia stellarum et rerum ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Quod dixit Pto<lomeus>, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — dabit ei quod significat ex bono sive malo.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), v. 1-78. The proposition of v. 1 is also given in Plato of Tivoli’s version (B.1.2). No glosses, except one added by a 14^th-c. hand in the margin of v. 51 (f. 92rb), which summarises the last paragraph of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.10): ‘Notandum quod magister Abraham dicit quod iste gradus et gradus ei oppositus erit ascendens aut Lune locus, quod se sepe expertum dicit fuisse’.

89va‑94ra

‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio corporum celestium mutatione… Scientia stellarum et rerum ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Quod dixit Pto<lomeus>, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — dabit ei quod significat ex bono sive malo.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’) (B.1.4), v. 1-78. The proposition of v. 1 is also given in Plato of Tivoli’s version (B.1.2). No glosses, except one added by a 14^th-c. hand in the margin of v. 51 (f. 92rb), which summarises the last paragraph of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.10): ‘Notandum quod magister Abraham dicit quod iste gradus et gradus ei oppositus erit ascendens aut Lune locus, quod se sepe expertum dicit fuisse’.