PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1924

Date:

s. XIII1, except pp. 2-5 and 202, which seem to have been added at a later stage (13th-14th or 14th c.?).

Or.:

northern (English hand and decoration at least for the copy of the Almagesti minor, pp. 9-163, acc. Georges).

Prov.:

the copy of the Almagesti minor was the exemplar of MS Vienna, ÖNB, 5292, copied at the University of Vienna in the beginning of the 16th c.; Jacopo Piso (d. 1527), secretary to the Cardinal Protector of Poland; Matthias de Miechow (d. 1523), who bequeathed the MS to the University of Cracow.

Parchment, 318 pp., several contemporary neat hands (with pp. 2-5 and 202 added later, see above), painted initials pp. 3, 19, 38, 59, 81 and 126, numerous decorated initials pp. 9-163.

Astronomy and mathematics: two tables of contents, late medieval (inner front cover and p. 1); astronomical figure and notes, partly faded (2); two unfinished astronomical figures (4-5); Ptolemaica (3-4, 9-163 and 165-189); ‘Tres circulos in astrolapsu descriptos…’, attr. Jordanus (190-193); Theodosius, De habitationibus (193-197); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (198-201); Ptolemaica (202a); Campanus of Novara, reworking of Theodosius’s Spherica (207-222); Theodosius, Spherica, tr. Gerard of Cremona (223-257); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Opus numerorum (263-271); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Tractatus minutiarum (271-278); Jordanus de Nemore (?), De proportionibus (279-282); Jordanus de Nemore, De numeris datis (287-313); table with note ‘Cum dividere volueris eundem numerum…’ (317). Blank: 6-8, 164, 202b-206, 258-262, 283-286, 314-316.

Bibl. W. Wisłocki, Katalog rękopisόw Biblijoteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, II, Krakόw, 1881, 481; L. Hajdukiewicz, Biblioteka Macieja z Miechowa, Wroclaw, 1960, 406-408; B. B. Hughes, Jordanus de Nemore: De numeris datis, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1981, 28-29; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 555 (index); H. Zepeda, The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), Turnhout, 2018, 62; S. Georges, Glosses as a Source for the History of Science. The Case of Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest (forthcoming).

3a–⁠4a

‘Equator diei (corr. ex E quatuor) est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― (4a) modum sequitur hos duos orbes ab ea parte qua est altior locus…’.

9–⁠163

‘Almagesti Ptholomei [title added by a later hand in upper margin]. Omnium recte philosophantium verisimilibus credibilibusque argumentis tenebrarum sic se habent. Explicit liber sextus.’

= Almagesti minor (C.1.4)

. No glosses.

165–⁠189

‘Prologus in Planisperium [title added by a later hand, upper margin]. Quemadmodum Tpholomeus (!) et ante eum nonnulli veteris auctoritatis viri antiquas seculi scribunt hystorias… (168) Planisperium Ptol<omei>, capitulum primum. Cum sit possibile, Iesure, et plerumque necessarium ut in plano represententur circuli in speram corpoream incidentes — cum ipsis circulis tropicis et cum circulis (184) meridianis signa distinguentibus. Si a termino unius diametri circuli recti — per polum zodiaci transire necesse est vel habet.’

= Ptolemy, Planispherium (tr. Hermann of Carinthia) (A.6.1)

, Class I. Translator’s preface, 165-168; text, 168-184; Propositiones planisperii, 184-189. Occasional short marginal notes by the scribe and by at least two later hands.

202a

‘<E>quator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― orbis Veneris prius, post Solis, deinde Martis etc.’

= Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1)

, beginning only (§1-11 in Carmody), the rest of p. 202 and pp. 203-206 are blank. No glosses.