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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. VI 12

Date:

s. XV2 (c. 1459).

Or.:

copied by Regiomontanus in Vienna.

Prov.:

Bernhard Walther; Nürnberg, Ratsbibliothek.

Paper, VIII+120 f., a single hand (Regiomontanus).

Astronomy: Ptolemaica (1r-66v); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere, revised version (68r-69v); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. Gerard of Cremona (73r-98v). Blank: I-VIII, 67r-67v, 70r-72v, 99r-120v.

Bibl. 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), 210 (no. 42); Die Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, IV: I. Neske, Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Varia 13.-15. und 16.-18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden, 1997, 164-165; H. Zepeda, The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), Turnhout, 2018, 58.

1r–⁠66v

‘Omnium recte philosophantium non solum verisimilibus et credibilibus tenebrarum sic se habent etc. Laus Deo. Qui mihi favisti ceptis imponere finem. Laus et honor tibi sint astrorum eterne revolutor.’

= Almagesti minor (C.1.4)

. Glosses by Regiomontanus.