PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 18678-18781

s. XIV (12th-13th c. acc. Lemay).

 Prov.:

Heverlee (Leuven), Park Abbey.

Parchment, 121 f., composite MS made of four parts (f. 1-10, 11-57, 59-98 and 99-121). Each part is copied by a single hand, except the first one, whose text was supplemented on f. 1v and 8r-10r by the same hand that copied the third part.

Astrology and geography: table of contents, 15th or 16th c. (1r); Ptolemaica (1va-10ra); Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi (11r-57r); Ptolemaica (59r-98v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (99r-121v). Blank: 10v, 57v-58v.

Bibl.

P. Thomas, Catalogue des manuscrits classiques latins de la Bibliothèque Royale de Bruxelles, Gand, 1896, 95-96; R. Calcoen, Inventaire des manuscrits scientifiques de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, IV, Bruxelles, 1980 [unpublished], no. 531; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 336-338.

1va

‘Ptho<lomeus> dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt 9 — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4), added on a page originally blank by the same hand that copied the end of the Centiloquium (see below) and f. 59-98. No glosses.

1vb

‘Dixerunt Ptho<lomeus> et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora qua — fuit expertus multotiens.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5), added on a page originally blank by the same hand that copied the end of the Centiloquium (see below) and f. 59-98. No glosses.

2ra–⁠10ra

‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio corporum celestium… Scientia astrorum ex te et illis est… Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras — et ego Deum deprecor ut te dilligat. Perfecta est libri translatio iam (!) die mensis Marcii et dicte (?) mensis I<m>medi (?) secundi anno 530. Expliciunt verba Ptho<lomei>.’

= Abuiafar Hamet filii Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (‘Mundanorum’ version) (C.3.1.3), up to v. 79 (here numbered 80) by the first hand, then continued (f. 8ra) by the same hand that copied f. 59-98 with Plato of Tivoli’s translation (C.3.1.1), starting with the commentary on v. 79. No glosses.

59r–⁠98v

‘Capitulum primum in collectione intellectus sciencie iudiciorum astrorum. Capitulum secundum… Incipit Quadripartitus Ptho<lomei>. Rerum, Yesure, in quibus est pronosticabilis sciencie stellarum perfectio magnas et precipuas duas esse deprehendimus — in hoc loco huic libro finem imponere non incongruum existimamus. Explicit Deo gratias.’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (A.2.1). I, 59r-69r; II, 69r-78r; III, 78r-91r; IV, 91r-98v. Substantial glosses by the scribe on every page, some of which are borrowed from Haly Abenrudian.