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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7399

Date:

s. XIII¹ (second quarter acc. Avril/Stirnemann).

Or.:

England, probably Oxford (Stefan Georges notes that the glossator of this MS also glossed the Almagest in Paris, BnF, lat. 7255 (see), a MS of similar production as the present MS).

Prov.:

Colbert; library of the kings of France in 1732.

Parchment, 173 f., four similar and very neat hands (f. 1-93, 95-98, 99-139r and 139v-172), with somewhat later additions f. 94r-94v and 173r-173v. Richly decorated initials throughout, reserved initials on f. 95-98.

Astronomy: Ptolemaica (1r-12v); Jordanus de Nemore (?), De proportionibus (12v-15v); Ptolemaica (15v-93v); Campanus of Novara, De figura sectore (94r-94v); Menelaus, Spherica, incomplete (95r-98v); Alpetragius, De motibus celorum (99r-139r); Theodosius, Spherica, tr. Gerard of Cremona (139v-173v).

Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 351-352; J. L. Heiberg, Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia, II: Opera astronomica minora, Leipzig, 1907, xiii; F. Avril, P. D. Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire, VIIe-XXe siècle, Paris, 1987, 68-69 (no. 109); H. Zepeda, The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), Turnhout, 2018, 58-59.

1r–⁠12v	‘Quemadmodum Tholomeus et ante eum nonnulli veteris auctoritatis viri antiquas seculi scribunt historias… (2r) Prima differentia. Cum sit possibile, Iesuri, et plurimumque necessarium ut in plano represententur circuli in speram corpoream incidentes — (10v) cum ipsis circulis tropicis et cum circulis meridianis signa distinguentibus. Explicit. Incipit prima propositio planisperii. Quoslibet duos circulos equidistantes recto in spera — (12r) per polum zodiaci transire necesse habet. Expliciunt propositiones. Si a termino unius diametri circuli recti — demum punctum in spera potentialiter ostendit.’ = Ptolemy, Planispherium (tr. Hermann of Carinthia) (A.6.1) , Class I. Translator’s preface, 1r-2r; text, 2r-10v; Propositiones planisperii, 10v-12v. No glosses. A few short notes by apparently another hand f. 2v, 3v-4r.
15v–⁠93v	‘Omnium recte philosophantium verisimilibus coniecturis credibilibus — tenebrarum sic se habent. Explicit liber sextus.’ = Almagesti minor (C.1.4) . Substantial glosses by a contemporary hand. Note by a later hand quoting Regiomontanus on f. 25r.

1r–⁠12v

‘Quemadmodum Tholomeus et ante eum nonnulli veteris auctoritatis viri antiquas seculi scribunt historias… (2r) Prima differentia. Cum sit possibile, Iesuri, et plurimumque necessarium ut in plano represententur circuli in speram corpoream incidentes — (10v) cum ipsis circulis tropicis et cum circulis meridianis signa distinguentibus. Explicit. Incipit prima propositio planisperii. Quoslibet duos circulos equidistantes recto in spera — (12r) per polum zodiaci transire necesse habet. Expliciunt propositiones. Si a termino unius diametri circuli recti — demum punctum in spera potentialiter ostendit.’

= Ptolemy, Planispherium (tr. Hermann of Carinthia) (A.6.1)

, Class I. Translator’s preface, 1r-2r; text, 2r-10v; Propositiones planisperii, 10v-12v. No glosses. A few short notes by apparently another hand f. 2v, 3v-4r.

15v–⁠93v

‘Omnium recte philosophantium verisimilibus coniecturis credibilibus — tenebrarum sic se habent. Explicit liber sextus.’

= Almagesti minor (C.1.4)

. Substantial glosses by a contemporary hand. Note by a later hand quoting Regiomontanus on f. 25r.