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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7303

Date:

s. XV.

Prov.:

Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (d. 1710), archbishop of Reims; library of the kings of France in 1700.

Parchment, 123 f., several contemporary hands (at least five hands for f. 4-103 and one hand for f. 104-123). Several folia are missing between f. 119 and 120.

Astrology: diagram of the twelve signs (1ra); Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia, excerpts from various books (1ra-3ra); Ptolemaica (4va-103va); Pseudo-John of Seville, Epitome totius astrologie (104ra-117ra); Albohali, De nativitatibus, tr. Johannes Toletanus, end gone (117ra-119vb); Aomar, De nativitatibus, beginning gone (120ra-120vb); ‘Apertio portarum dicitur cum…’ (120vb-121rb); ‘De caristia. Cum volueris segetus prenoscere…’ (121rb-121va); Epistola Argafalau ad Alexandrum, 2 (121va-121vb); ‘Cum aliquis ad questionem venerit, statim constitue ascendens…’ (121vb-122va); Zael, De interrogationibus, 80-96 (122va-123vb). Blank: 3rb-4r.

Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 338; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (xe siècle), Leiden-Boston, 2007, 356; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 89-90.

4va–⁠103va

‘Scire et intelligere gloriosum est quia omnis sapientia a Deo… (5ra) Quadripartitum Ptholomei cum commento Haly [title in upper margin]. Verba que dixit sapientissimus Ptholomeus in arte iudiciorum super hiis… (5vb) <R>es, Mizori, quibus perficiuntur pronosticationes accepte de astronomia maiores et nobiliores sunt due — (101ra) posuit in hoc libro sunt regule et radices quibus ars ista componitur. Et sic est finis istius. <V>olo in hoc loco dare tibi exempla trium nativitatum ut melius intendas quidquid locuti sumus in eis, et prima est nativitas mea — hec sunt que tibi glosavi in quibus studium et mentem apponas et Deus te diriget in viam rectam. Explicit Quadripartitum Ptholomei cum commento Haly.’

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

. Translator’s preface, 4va-4vb; Haly’s preface, 5ra-5vb; I, 5vb-29vb (end missing); II, 30ra-51va; III, 52ra-82va; IV, 83ra-101rb; Haly’s appendix, 101rb-103va. No glosses.