London, British Library, Harley 3151
s. XIV or XV.
Or.:England (cf. f. 43r-44r).
Prov.:Robert Harley.
Parchment and paper, 44 f., a single hand.
Scientific texts: Regimen animarum ‘Incipit qui vocatur animarum reginem compilatus in anno domini MoCCCoXLoIIIo. Incipit prologus. O vos omnes sacerdotes qui laboratis…’ (1ra-23vb); Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book III on mathematics (24r-32v); John Peckham, De spera (33r-37v); Ptolemaica (38r-39r); ‘Tractatus de planetis. Septem sunt planete, scilicet Luna, Mercurius, Venus…’ (41r-42r); excerpts of a text on music ‘Quo quarti tonus est plus diapente…’ (43r); text on manuscript illumination, in English (43r-44r). Blank: 12v, 24v, 39v-40v, 42v, 44v.
Bibl. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, London, 1808-1812, 4 vols, III, 6.
38r–39r
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‘Tholomeus [title in upper margin, hand of the scribe]. Dixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi tibi … [blank space] libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Scientia stellarum ex te et illis… Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis est, significat quod qui res futuras scire desiderat — considerare et quis eorum forcior sit.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1)
, preface and v. 1-6. The scribe stopped copying towards the end of the commentary on v. 6 in the middle of f. 39r and left f. 39v-40v blank. No glosses. |
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