PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 198 (293)

Date:

s. XV2.

Or.:

Italy.

Prov.:

Ercole Bottrigari (f. 1r and 3r: ‘Ex bibliotheca Herculei Bottrigarii’).

Paper, 128 f., a single neat hand.

Ptolemaica (single text). Title added by another hand f. 1r: ‘Ioannis Bianchini Tractatus decem arithmetici, algebraici, geometrici, astronomici’. Blank: 1v-2v, 21-22, 126-128.

Bibl. L. Frati, Indichi dei codici latini conservati nella R. Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, Firenze, 1909, 190; L. Thorndike, ‘Giovanni Bianchini in Italian Manuscripts’, Scripta Mathematica 19 (1953), 5-17: 11-13.

3r–⁠125v

‘Tractatus primus de arismetrica per Ioannem de Blanchinis. Liber primus. Incipit proemium. <A>rismetrica dico quod determinatur per numeros, et duas noto diffinitiones numerorum — et si excesserit minuta 50 erit grisium cum albedine.’

= Giovanni Bianchini, Flores Almagesti (C.1.17)

. I, 3r-15v; II, 16r-20v; III, 23r-32v; IV, 32v-36v; V, 37r-56v; VI, 57r-72v; VII, 73r-102r; VIII, 102r-109v; IX, 110r-120r; X, 120r-125v. Corrections and marginal notes by the scribe.