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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, New College, 282

s. XVin (copied in 1423, cf. colophon f. 190v and verse f. 198r ‘Clara thetis quid ad arva, fluis Cererem pecus abdens’: C+L+I+V+I+V+L+V+I+C+M+C+V =MCCCLLVVVVIII – my thanks to Carlos Steel who worked this out for me).

Or.:

Bruges (cf. colophon f. 190v).

Prov.:

Thomas Dryffeld, fellow of New College, bequeathed the MS to New College (cf. f. 1r: ‘Liber collegii ex dono magistri Thome Dryffeld socii collegii, scolaris sacre theologie’, 15th or 16th-c. hand).

Paper, 198 f., a single hand.

Ptolemaica (single text). Blank: 198v.

Bibl. H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adversantur, I, Oxford, 1852, Codices MSS. Collegii Novi, 98-99; A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, I, Oxford, 1984, 143 (no. 856).

1r–⁠198r

‘Incipit liber quadripartiti Ptholomei. Ihesus. <S>cire et intelligere gloriosum est quia omnis sapientia est a Deo… (1v) <V>erba que dixit sapientissimus Ptholomeus in arte iudiciorum astronomie… (3r) Incipit liber quatuor partium qui dicitur Quadripartitus Ptholomei Philadelphi. Capitulum primum tractatus libri quatuor partium Ptholomei. <R>es, o Misori, quibus perficiuntur pronosticationes accepte de astronomia mariores et notabiliores sunt due — (190v) posuit in hoc libro sunt regule et radices quibus ars ista componitur. Explicit Quatripartitum (!) Ptholomei cum glosa Haly Abenrudiani de quo sit benedictus Deus gloriosus et sublimis qui illum dirigat qui scripsit. Amen. Finitus fuit liber iste Brugis anno domini 1423 mensis Novembris die secunda [colophon in the margin, hand of the scribe]. Sequitur iudicium nativitatis Haly Abenrudiani. (191r) Volo tibi in hoc dare exemplum trium nativitatum ut melius intendas quidquid locuti sumus in eis, in prima est nativitas mea — (196v) et Deus te dirigat in viam rectam. Explicit hic iudicium 3 nativitatum ab Haly Abenrudiani factum. (197r) <V>olui iudicare utrum actor (!) iste iudicaret secundum octavam speram vel secundum nonam, et inveni per loca planetarum que posuit in figura sue nativitatis quod ipsa fuit annis Christi perfectis 986, 10 mensibus, 15 die Ianuarii, qua die equavi planetas secundum tabulas et inveni sic — loca etiam Martis et Mercurii non concordant cum locis nativitatis. Clara thetis quid ad arva, fluis Cererem pecus abdens. In dicto versu patet annus quo scriptus fuit liber iste.’

= Haly Abenrudian, Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2)

. Translator’s preface, 1r-1v; Haly’s preface, 1v-3r; I, 3r-46r; II, 46r-87r; III, 87r-150r; IV, 150r-190v; Haly’s appendix, 191r-196v; additional note, 197r-198r. Marginal notes by the scribe, especially in Books III-IV.