Work B.1.6
Pseudo-Ptolemy
Centiloquium (tr. before 1229)
This translation, which includes Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf’s commentary, was prepared by an anonymous translator at an unknown date, but no later than 1229, which corresponds to the terminus ante quem of the Vatican MS. Boudet noted that this version shares occasional words and phrases with Hugo Sanctelliensis’s translation (B.1.3) and suggested that it may have been known and used by Hugo, in which case it would date from the first half of the twelfth century (Boudet, ‘Naissance et conception’, 172-173, and ‘The Medieval Latin Versions’, 289-290 and 297-298). The two extant manuscripts are truncated. The Vatican MS preserves v. 6-88 and the Vác MS only has the title (Liber Ptolomei de centum verbis), the preface and fragments of v. 1, 3-4, 24-26 and 28-31.
Text
‘(Vatican, BAV, Vat. lat. 5714) [6] … si autem infirmum et illud superat (?) ad suam illud proprietatem… [7] 7. Sermo septimus. Dicit Ptol<omeu>s: Non pertinet ad iudicium in astrorum efficatia… [comm.] Explanatio. Astrorum commixtioni dicunt ad quod ad eorum naturam pertinent et coniungitur… (105rb) [8] 8. Sermo octavus. Dicit Ptol<omeu>s: Anima sapiens et discreta efficatie circulari auxiliatur… [comm.] Explanatio. Per hoc dicit anima sapiens illa vult intelligere que circulari… [9] 9. Sermo nonus. Dicit Ptol<omeu>s: Forme que in hoc seculo atarip, scilicet commistionis… [comm.] Explanatio. Huius sententie intellectus expositio de ultis secretis… (105va) [10] 10. Sermo decimus. Dicit Tholomeus: De malis astris vel noxiis in electionibus tuis pone… [comm.] Explanatio. Tropidi quidam et inisipientes (?) astrologi in omnibus electionibus… (109rb) [51] 51. Sermo quinquagesimus primus. Dicit Ptol<omeu>s: Lune locus in nativitatibus est p…es (?) in circulo in hora casus spermatis… [comm.] Explanatio. Convenerunt sapientes et docti in natura dicentes quod status nati in utero… (110rb) [60] 60. Sermo sexagesimus primus. Dicit Ptol<omeu>s: Termini in singnis veraces, videlicet hore in quibus mutatio status infirmi… [comm.] Explanatio. In hoc sermone ostendit nobis Ptol<omeu>s causam terminorum in sudoribus — [88] 88. Sermo octavagesimus octavus. Dicit Ptol<omeus>: Cum quesieris scire partem felicitatis per totum…’.
Bibl.
J.-P. Boudet, ‘Causalité et signification dans le Centiloquium du pseudo-Ptolémée’, in Orbis disciplinae. Liber amicorum Patrick Gautier Dalché, eds N. Bouloux, A. Dan, G. Tolias, Turnhout, 2017, 607-624: 608-609; J.-P. Boudet, ‘Naissance et conception: autour de la proposition 51 du Centiloquium attribué à Ptolémée’, in De l’homme, de la nature et du monde. Mélanges d’histoire des sciences médiévales offerts à Danielle Jacquart, Genève, 2019, 165-178: 172-173; J.-P. Boudet, ‘The Medieval Latin Versions of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium: A Survey’, in Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, eds D. Juste, B. van Dalen, D. N. Hasse, C. Burnett, Turnhout, 2020, 283-304: 286 and passim.
Ed.
Samples have been edited by Boudet, ‘Naissance et conception’, 172 (v. 51), and ‘The Medieval Latin Versions’, 289 (v. 8) and 298 (v. 51).
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