PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. III 25

s. XV2 (c. 1460).

  Or.:

copied by Regiomontanus in Vienna.

  Prov.:

Bernhard Walther; Nürnberg, Ratsbibliothek.

Paper, VI+132 f., a single hand (Regiomontanus).

Ptolemaica (two texts). Blank: Ir-VIv (except short historical notes f. Ir), 93r-95v, 131r-131v.

Bibl. P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 664-665; E. Zinner, Regiomontanus: His Life and Work, Amsterdam-New York-Oxford-Tokyo, 1990 (tr. from Leben und Wirken des Joh. Müller von Königsberg, genannt Regiomontanus, Osnabrück, 1968, with supplements), 206 (no. 35); P. Kunitzsch, Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, II, Wiesbaden, 1990, 15-16; Die Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, IV: I. Neske, Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Varia 13.-15. und 16.-18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden, 1997, 23-24; 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–⁠92v

‘<Q>uidam princeps nomine Albuguafe in libro suo quem scienciarum electionem et verborum nominavit… <B>onum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est — et abbreviationem, arogantiam et collaudationem, tunc iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic in finem libro. Expleta est dictio tredecima libri Ptolomei et cum ea completur liber Almagesti de disciplinalibus.’

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

, Class A. Preface, 1r; I, 1r-8r; II, 8r-18v; III, 18v-23v; IV, 23v-32r; V, 32r-40r; VI, 40r-48v; VII, 48v-55v; VIII, 55v-61v; IX, 61v-70r; X, 70r-73v; XI, 73v-81r; XII, 81r-86r; XIII, 86r-92v. Glosses by Regiomontanus.

96r–⁠130v

‘Verba Gebri filii Affla Hispalensis. Scientia species habet quarum melior — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est declaratio eius. Explicit tractatus nonus et ultimus huius libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’

= Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)

. Preface, 96r-96v; I, 96v-100r; II, 100r-104v; III, 104v-106r; IV, 106v-110r; V, 110r-115v; VI, 115v-120r; VII, 120v-125v; VIII, 125v-127v; IX, 127v-130v. Short marginal notes by Regiomontanus, one more substantial note f. 122r.