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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 369

Date:

s. XV (f. 9-20; the other parts of the MS date from 12th or 13th c. to the 15th c.).

  Or.:

England, perhaps Cambridge (f. 9-20).

  Prov.:

the MS belonged to a 15th-c. astrologer, who copied f. 9-20 and annoted the MS throughout – this astrologer added the longitude and latitude of Cambridge f. 7v; ‘Iste liber constat Karolo Lacy phisico’ f. 189v); John Dee (cf. f. 4r: ‘Jo. Dee’).

Parchment, except f. 10-19, on paper, 190 f. Composite MS made of nine parts of various dates: I, f. 1-8 (fragments of several MSS inserted as fly-leaves in the 15th c.); II, f. 9-20 (15th c., a single hand); III, f. 21-76 (late 12th or 13th c., a single hand); IV, f. 77-84 (13th c., a single hand); V, f. 85-102 (13th c., a single hand, the same as in Part III, except for f. 87-88, added by contemporary hand); VI, f. 103-152 (13th c., a single hand); VII, f. 153-161 (early 14th c., a single hand); VIII, f. 162-182 (14th-15th c., several hands); IX, f. 183-191 (15th c., a single hand).

Astrology (f. 9-20): ‘De fugitivis servis et bestiis ubi sunt et qua causa s… (title in margin, end gone). Scias quod hec res aspicitur multis modis et a multis partibus…’ (9r-14r); Abraham Avenezra, Tractatus particulares, tr. Pietro d’Abano, Books II-III (14r-17v); Ptolemaica (17v-20v). The other parts of the MS mainly contain astrological and astronomical texts: Terence, Andria, fragment (1v-3v); astronomical and astrological notes (3v); Euclid, De visu, beginning only (4r); astronomical and astrological notes (4v-8r); table of contents covering f. 9-189 (8v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (21ra-32va), followed by added notes (32va-32vb); Raymond of Marseille, Liber iudiciorum (33ra-46vb); Zael, Liber iudiciorum (47ra-76vb; Introductorium, Quinquaginta precepta and De interrogationibus, beginning only due to missing folia); Proportiones competentes in astrorum industria (77r-83v); Hermann of Reichenau, De mensura astrolabii and De utilitatibus astrolabii, excerpts (83v-84v); Alkindi, Iudicia astrorum, tr. Robert of Ketton (85ra-101vb); Albumasar, De revolutionibus annorum mundi (103r-123v); Albumasar, De revolutione annorum nativitatum (123v-133v); Albohali, De nativitatibus, tr. Johannes Toletanus (134r-152v); Albumasar, Flores (152va-161vb); Prophatius Judeus, Almanach (162r-179r); ‘Et (?) australem polum et occidentalem ad suum…’ (180v-182v); nativity horoscope of Henry VI, with notes (182v); Thomas Aquinas, De angelis (183r-189r); scattered notes (189v-190r).

Bibl. W. R. Black, A Descriptive, Analytical, and Critical Catalogue of the Manuscripts Bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole, Oxford, 1845, 283-286; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (xe siècle), Leiden-Boston, 2007, 346-347.

17v–⁠20v

‘Figura nativitatis Ptholomei et fuit natus in tertio climate… (18r) De statu patris. Aspexi primitus in esse patris in inveni Solem in undecima domo in Aquario — Venus in Ariete 20.49, Mercurius in Piscis 24 et 17. Et hec exempla nativitatum sufficiunt ad presens.’

= Haly Abenrudian, Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2)

. Haly’s appendix only, in a shortened and somewhat revised version. The text opens with Haly’s horoscope, wrongly identified with Ptolemy’s nativity. No glosses.