PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 15353

s. XIIIex-XIVin (f. 87-92 copied between 1295 and 1315).

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France.

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college of Sorbonne.

Parchment, 93 f., MS made of four parts each copied by a single hand (f. 3-14, 15-72, 73-86 and 87-93).

Theology by Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and Giles of Rome. The Ptolemaic section (87ra-92vb) follows Giles of Rome’s Super decretalem cum Mathae (77vb-86rb). Blank: 86v, 93.

Bibl. L. Delisle, Inventaire des manuscrits de la Sorbonne conservés à la Bibliothèque Impériale sous les numéros 15176-16718 du fonds latin, Paris, 1870, 6; 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 (Nos 8001 à 18613), Paris, 1974, 415; H. F. Dondaine, H. V. Shooner, Codices manuscripti operum Thomae de Aquino, III, Montréal, 1985, 272; Aegidii Romani Opera Omnia, I: Catalogo dei manoscritti, I.3: Francia (Parigi), ed. C. Luna, Firenze, 1988, 187-188; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 222-223.

87ra–⁠92vb

‘Incipit archanum magni Dei revelatum Tholomeo regi Arabum de reductione geomancie ad orbem. Per hoc presens opus possunt cognosci exquisite presentia, preterita et future in omni eo quod vult homo in tantum quantum se potest extendere virtus orbis. Modus autem operandi in hac sacra scientia — et alie sunt fallaces. Explicit. Honor virtus est gloria potestas… Translatio magistri Bernardi de Gordonio phisici regnante Bonifacio papa et Adulpho electo in imperatorem et Philippo rege Francie filio quondam Philippi regis Francie et Iacobo rege Maioricarum et Berengario episcopo Magalonensi et Audoardo rege Anglorum et anno XIIIo lecture nostre in phisica in Montepessulano et anno domini MoCCo nonag<inta> quinto die Iovis ante Natale.’