Mühlhausen, Stadtarchiv, 60/2
s. XV1 (c. 1434-1450 for f. 191-230; f. 2-190 date from the middle of the 14th c.).
Or.:probably Thuringia (Erfurt?) for the whole MS.
Parchment (f. 191-224 and 227-228) and paper (f. 1-190, 225-226 and 229-230), 230 f. MS made of five parts bound together c. 1440-1450: I, f. 2-120 (two hands, f. 2-42 and 43-120); II, 121-190 (a single hand); III, f. 191-211 (a single hand); IV, f. 212-224 (a single hand); V, f. 225-230 (three hands, f. 225+230, 226+229 and 227-228).
Geomancy, astronomy and metrology (parts III-V, f. 191-230): Ptolemaica (191ra-210rb); geomancy ‘Capitulum secundum de divisione 8 figurarum imparium. Capitulum secundum de tractatu reliquarum figurarum…’ (210va-211va); added astronomical notes (212r); William Rede, Oxford tables (213r-223v); metrology ‘Distinctio mensurarum et ponderum diversificatur tribus modis secundum Avicennam et Serapionem…’ (225ra-225vb and 230ra-230rb); astronomical tables (226r-226v and 229r-229v); tables of geomancy (227v-228v). Blank: 212v, 224r-224v (except for astronomical notes added by another hand f. 224v), 227r, 230v (except notes). The 14th-c. sections (parts I-II, f. 2-190) include: comm. on Johannes de Erfordia’s Computus chirometralis (2ra-30ra); comm. on Sacrobosco’s Algorismus (30ra-43vb); comm. on Sacrobosco’s De sphera (44ra-65rb); ‘Circa principium huius libri queritur utrum diffinitio spere…’ (65va-82va); comm. on Theorica planetarum Gerardi (83ra-120ra); Euclid, Elementa, ed. Campanus of Novara (121r-190r).
Note According to the 15th-c. table of contents copied on the inner front cover, William Rede's tables (f. 213-223) originally appeared before the geomantic sections (f. 191-211) and the latter were followed by six items which are no longer in the MS: ‘8o Quidam tractatus de misteriis numerorum et arte misteierandi (?) etc.; 9o Duo alphabeta Grecum et Hebraicum et grammatica Greca N.; 10o Figura Ptolemei de crisi; 11o Divisiones graduum zodiaci in lucedos puteos augmentes fortunam; 12o Exemplar directionis cuiusdem nativitatis. 13o Habetur in tabulis folium de nominibus et proprietatibus figurarum geomancie’. Item no. 10 corresponds perhaps to the diagram that accompanies the Glosa super 60 propositionem Centilogii Ptholomei (C.3.2) or Propositio Tholomei de crisi (C.3.3). Item no. 13 may correspond to f. 227-228.
Bibl. https://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP00052F0400000000 (description by Matthias Eifler); M. Eifler, W. J. Hoffmann, ‘Rechtsbuch, Lehrbuch, Zauberbuch, geistliches Theaterspiel…: Entdeckungen in mittelalterlichen Handschriften des Mühlhäuser Stadtarchivs’; Muhlhäuser Beiträge 46 (2023), 217-249: 227-230. I am grateful to Matthias Eifler for drawing my attention to this MS.
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191ra–210rb
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‘Incipit archanum Dei magis (!) revelatum Phtolomeo regi Arabium (!) de reductione geomancie ad orbes. Per hoc presens opus possunt cognosci exquisite presentia, preterita et futura — da michi virtute in hoc opere vel in hac arte vel in hac re, ut possim veritatem scire etc. Explicit liber secreta secretorum Dei archanorum atque volumen illustris regis Ptholomei Arabium (!) de reductione geomancie ad orbes planetarum et Deo laus etc.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Archanum magni Dei de reductione geomancie ad orbem (B.17)
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