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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 14738

Date:

s. XII² (probably between c. 1165 and c. 1176 acc. Georges).

Or.:

the MS is generally believed to have originated in France, either southern France (Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny, as reported by Kunitzsch, Der Sternkatalog) or northern France (Marie-Thérèse Gousset and Patricia Stirnemann, as reported by Jacquart, ‘Les manuscrits’, 216 n. 30), but Georges convincingly argued that it was copied and decorated for Henry II at Winchester.

Prov.:

St Victor of Paris since 1319 according to a note f. Ir: ‘Iste liber depositus est in Sancto Victore … [a dozen of erased words] anno MºCCCºXIXº die Veneris ante Penthecostem’ (other St Victor ex-libris f. 1r). On f. 211v, a late 13^th- or early 14^th-c hand wrote ‘Istam litteram scripsit Iofridus de Forpahc [Forbach, Moselle]’ next to the added ch. III.4 (see below).

Parchment, II+211 f., a single neat hand, decorated initials.

Ptolemaica (single text). F. Ir and IIv contain scattered notes, including the ex-libris of St Victor and the title and contents of the MS. Blank: Iv, IIr (except for a series of numbers f. IIr).

Bibl. L. Delisle, Inventaire des manuscrits de l’Abbaye de Saint-Victor conservés à la Bibliothèque Impériale, sous les numéros 14232-15175 du fonds latin, Paris, 1869, 45; C. Samaran, R. Marichal, Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste, III: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds latin (N^os 8001 à 18613), Paris, 1974, 738; P. Kunitzsch, Der Almagest – Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemäus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung, Wiesbaden, 1974, 91-93; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 258; P. Kunitzsch, Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, II, Wiesbaden, 1990, 12; G. Ouy, Les manuscrits de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor. Catalogue établi sur base du répertoire de Claude de Grandrue (1514), Turnhout, 1999, II, 484; D. Jacquart, ‘Les manuscrits des traductions de Gérard de Crémone: quelques caractéristiques formelles’, in Les traducteurs au travail. Leurs manuscrits et leurs méthodes, ed. J. Hamesse, Turnhout, 2001, 207-220: 216-219; D. Jacquart, ‘Les sciences dans la bibliothèque de Saint-Victor’, in L’école de Saint-Victor de Paris. Influence et rayonnement du Moyen Âge à l’Époque moderne, ed. D. Poirel, Turnhout, 2010, 197-225: 205-206; S. Georges, Glosses as a Source for the History of Science. The Case of Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest (forthcoming).

1r–⁠211va Images	‘Quidam princeps nomine Albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum elect… [ending erased] et verborum nominavit… (1v) Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est — (211r) abbreviationem, arrogantiam et collaudationem, tunc iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libro. Expleta est dictio XIII^a libri Ptholomei et cum ea completur liber Almagesti de disciplinalibus. Laus Deo. Amen. [211va, added by a 13^th-c. hand] Ad hec autem ut demonstremus contra (!) secundum modis (!) orbis revolutionis per numeros quod quantitates ille sint une cum proportiones — illud est quod oportuit nos declarare.’ = Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Gerard of Cremona) (A.1.2) , Class A. Preface, 1r-1v; I, 1v-17r; II, 17r-41r; III, 41r-55v; IV, 55v-75r; V, 75r-93v; VI, 93v-112r; VII, 112r-127r; VIII, 127v-140v; IX, 140v-157v; X, 157v-168r; XI, 168r-184r; XII, 184r-197r; XIII, 197r-211r. The text is followed (211va) by the final paragraph of c. III.4, missing in loco (51r), where an added note reads: ‘Hic deficit unum capitulum parvum et quere in fine libri’. Very short glosses by two later hands, f. 20v, 21v, 42v-43r, 44r, 45v-46r, 54v, 70v-71r, 74r-74v, 79r, 88r, 93r, 99v, 102v, 109v, 110v, 114r, 132r, 139v, 153v-154r, 155r, 163v, 169v, 172r-173v, 193v. The gloss on f. 46r has calculations for the year 1246 (‘… quod fuit in anno domini 1246 incompleto’).

1r–⁠211va

Images

‘Quidam princeps nomine Albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum elect… [ending erased] et verborum nominavit… (1v) Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est — (211r) abbreviationem, arrogantiam et collaudationem, tunc iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libro. Expleta est dictio XIII^a libri Ptholomei et cum ea completur liber Almagesti de disciplinalibus. Laus Deo. Amen. [211va, added by a 13^th-c. hand] Ad hec autem ut demonstremus contra (!) secundum modis (!) orbis revolutionis per numeros quod quantitates ille sint une cum proportiones — illud est quod oportuit nos declarare.’

= Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Gerard of Cremona) (A.1.2)

, Class A. Preface, 1r-1v; I, 1v-17r; II, 17r-41r; III, 41r-55v; IV, 55v-75r; V, 75r-93v; VI, 93v-112r; VII, 112r-127r; VIII, 127v-140v; IX, 140v-157v; X, 157v-168r; XI, 168r-184r; XII, 184r-197r; XIII, 197r-211r. The text is followed (211va) by the final paragraph of c. III.4, missing in loco (51r), where an added note reads: ‘Hic deficit unum capitulum parvum et quere in fine libri’. Very short glosses by two later hands, f. 20v, 21v, 42v-43r, 44r, 45v-46r, 54v, 70v-71r, 74r-74v, 79r, 88r, 93r, 99v, 102v, 109v, 110v, 114r, 132r, 139v, 153v-154r, 155r, 163v, 169v, 172r-173v, 193v. The gloss on f. 46r has calculations for the year 1246 (‘… quod fuit in anno domini 1246 incompleto’).