PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. III 25

Date:

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.