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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 16200

Date:

s. XIII¹, the copy of the Almagest was completed in December 1213 (cf. f. IIv: ‘Liber iste fuit scriptus et perfectus ad exemplar beati Victoris Pariensis anno domini MºCCºXIII, mense Decembri’ – the date was corrected into ‘MºCCºLXIII’ by a later hand, see Samaran/Marichal) and the Almagesti minor was added in the margins by the first glossator in or shortly after 1247 (see below).

Or.:

Paris; the Almagest was copied on an exemplar of St Victor of Paris (cf. note f. IIv, as above) and the initial on f. 1r was produced by the Parisian illuminator known as the ‘Almagest Master’ (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint-Louis. A Study of Styles, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1977, 27-48).

Prov.:

Peter of Limoges (the second glossator), who heavily glossed and foliated the MS; college of Sorbonne before 1338 (f. 192r: ‘Iste liber est pauperum magistrorum in domo de Sourbona commorantium, precii VIII lib<rarum>’, which corresponds to no. 52 of the catalogue of 1338, see Delisle, Le cabinet). Also on f. 192r, but in a different hand: ‘Maistre Johan de Corte. VI lib<rarum>, die intrante Iulio, videlicet kal. Iunii (!)’.

Parchment, II+192 f., a single very neat hand, deluxe MS with superb painted initial representing Ptolemy as a crowned king (f. 1r) and numerous richly decorated initials throughout.

Ptolemaica (single text), except for glosses and added material, including a diagram with mathematical notes in a 13^th- or 14^th-c. hand (Iv) and a lengthy note by the first glossator ‘Notandum quod Tholomeus ille duos libros de astronomia composuit, scilicet istum quem etiam de motibus stellarum, et alium quem varium (?) Alarbe 4…’ (IIv). Blank: Ir, IIr, 192v.

Bibl. L. Delisle, Inventaire des manuscrits de la Sorbonne conservés à la Bibliothèque Impériale sous les numéros 15176-16718 du fonds latin, Paris, 1870, 46; L. Delisle, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, III, Paris, 1881, 68 (no. 52), 298; 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, 513; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 238; P. Kunitzsch, Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, II, Wiesbaden, 1990, 12; 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; L. Miolo, Le fonds scientifique d’un collège de théologie: le cas de la bibliothèque de Sorbonne 1257-1500, PhD dissertation, Université Lumières Lyon 2, 2017, II, 84-86; H. Zepeda, The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), Turnhout, 2018, 62-64; S. Georges, Glosses as a Source for the History of Science. The Case of Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest (forthcoming).

1ra–⁠191vb	‘Quidam princeps nomine Albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum electionem et verborum nominavit… (1va) Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est — abbreviationem, arrogantiam et collaudationem, tunc iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libro. Expleta est dictio XIII^a libri Ptolomei et cum ea conpletur liber Almagesti de disciplinalibus. Laus Deo. Amen.’ = Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Gerard of Cremona) (A.1.2) , Class A. Preface, 1ra-1va; I, 1va-15ra; II, 15ra-35rb; III, 35rb-46vb; IV, 46vb-63vb; V, 64ra-80va; VI, 80va-97v; VII, 98ra-112r; VIII, 112v-125rb; IX, 125rb-141va; X, 141va-152ra; XI, 152ra-166vb; XII, 166vb-178r; XIII, 178va-191vb. Corrections by the scribe and substantial glosses by two 13^th-c. hands. The first glossator, who heavily glossed the whole MS and is also responsible for the note f. IIv and for the second Ptolemaic section (below), said that he began to read the book in March 1247 (f. 1r: ‘et incepit liber iste legi anno gratie 1246, feria 5 ante Annuntiationem domini’) and left calculations dated May 1247 on f. 45v. The second glossator is Peter of Limoges, who glossed mainly, though not only, the first six books and harshly criticised the first glossator (cf. f. 20v: ‘Quicquid dicat iste cecus glosator… Noli verbis seu glosis eius attendere si non vis errare’, f. 56v: ‘Nota quod quicquid dicat iste trufatorius glosator…’ or f. 182r: ‘Quicquid dicat hec nocibilia (?) scripta…’). Peter also refers to his own glosses to the Almagesti minor in Vatican, BAV, Reg. lat. 1261 (see), where he refers in turn to the present copy of the Almagest, so going ‘back and forth between these two manuscripts’ (Zepeda, 64).
(5ra–⁠96ra)	‘Formam celi spericam esse. Motus celi circularem circa terram undique… (6ra) Data circuli diametro latera decagoni…’ = Almagesti minor (C.1.4) , as glosses to the Almagest by the first glossator (see above). The text is loosely copied and includes many small changes, omissions and additions, as well as a different preface (ed. Zepeda, 609).

1ra–⁠191vb

‘Quidam princeps nomine Albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum electionem et verborum nominavit… (1va) Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est — abbreviationem, arrogantiam et collaudationem, tunc iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libro. Expleta est dictio XIII^a libri Ptolomei et cum ea conpletur liber Almagesti de disciplinalibus. Laus Deo. Amen.’

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

, Class A. Preface, 1ra-1va; I, 1va-15ra; II, 15ra-35rb; III, 35rb-46vb; IV, 46vb-63vb; V, 64ra-80va; VI, 80va-97v; VII, 98ra-112r; VIII, 112v-125rb; IX, 125rb-141va; X, 141va-152ra; XI, 152ra-166vb; XII, 166vb-178r; XIII, 178va-191vb. Corrections by the scribe and substantial glosses by two 13^th-c. hands. The first glossator, who heavily glossed the whole MS and is also responsible for the note f. IIv and for the second Ptolemaic section (below), said that he began to read the book in March 1247 (f. 1r: ‘et incepit liber iste legi anno gratie 1246, feria 5 ante Annuntiationem domini’) and left calculations dated May 1247 on f. 45v. The second glossator is Peter of Limoges, who glossed mainly, though not only, the first six books and harshly criticised the first glossator (cf. f. 20v: ‘Quicquid dicat iste cecus glosator… Noli verbis seu glosis eius attendere si non vis errare’, f. 56v: ‘Nota quod quicquid dicat iste trufatorius glosator…’ or f. 182r: ‘Quicquid dicat hec nocibilia (?) scripta…’). Peter also refers to his own glosses to the Almagesti minor in Vatican, BAV, Reg. lat. 1261 (see), where he refers in turn to the present copy of the Almagest, so going ‘back and forth between these two manuscripts’ (Zepeda, 64).

(5ra–⁠96ra)

‘Formam celi spericam esse. Motus celi circularem circa terram undique… (6ra) Data circuli diametro latera decagoni…’

= Almagesti minor (C.1.4)

, as glosses to the Almagest by the first glossator (see above). The text is loosely copied and includes many small changes, omissions and additions, as well as a different preface (ed. Zepeda, 609).