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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, G II 36 (996)

s. XV2 (1451).

Or.:

George of Trebizond’s notebook, mainly copied by him in Rome.

Prov.:

Domenico Grimani, cardinal of Venice (f. 1r: ‘Liber D. Grimani, Cardinalis S. Marci’).

Paper, 198 f., two hands: I [George of Trebizond]. f. 1-4 and 27-198; II. f. 5r-21v. The MS has been damaged by water, making some parts difficult to read.

George of Trebizond’s notebook: mathematical notes in Greek (1r-4r); theology ‘Queritur primo utrum primum principium…’ (5ra-21va); note ‘De substrahendi proportione a proportione…’ (27r); Ptolemaica (27r-28r); astrological note on Firmicus Maternus (29r); criticism of Plato’s Laws (30r-30v); George of Trebizond, preface to Alfonso of Aragon of his own translation of Demosthenes’s On the Crown (31r-33r); George of Trebizond, preface to Alfonso of Aragon of his own translation of Aristotle’s Rhetorica ad Theodecten (34v); list of Greek and Latin provinces (38v); Ptolemaica (39r-198v). Blank: 4v, 22-26, 28v, 29v, 33v-34r, 35r-38r, 46v-48v, 168v.

Bibl. G. Mazzatinti, Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d’Italia, XXVIII, Firenze, 1922, 103 (no. 996); W. Norlind, ‘Georgius Trapezuntius och hans Almagest-kommentar’, Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok-och-Biblioteksväsen 53 (1966), 19-24: 22; J. Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond, Binghamton (NY), 1984, 52-53; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, VI, London-Leiden, 1992, 224.

27r–⁠28r

‘Averois: Volo ponere ea in quibus reprehendit Geber Hispalen<sis> Ptolemeum in Magna Compositione et correxit, sicut putavit, demonstrationibus suis. Primum in libro primo — ponit eius super Solem.’

39r–⁠198v

‘G. Trapezontii ad libros Magne Ptolomei compositionis introductio. Capitulum de divisione omnis circuli et precipue zodiaci. Quoniam libro Ptolomei de motibus celestium, quibus nescio an quicquam altius ac rationis et scientie via certius inveniri aut fingi possit ex Greca lingua in Latinam vertimus… (49r) Cum sepius nobis sanctissimus pater Nicolaus papa quintus immensa Ptolomei de celestium scientia corporum volumina traducere a Greco in Latinum iusserit — (49v) difficiliora solum breviter explanabimus. In primo capitulo primi libri Ptolomeus divisionem philosophie aristotelicam — maius inter observationes temporis spatium exigit quam vita hominis sit. Laudetur nomen tuum… qui me hoc opus in die felici salutis nostre absolvere voluisti, Christe benedicte… tue incarnationis incepi absolvique novem… mensibus novem diebus 22, cuius rei testis gravissimus… Sed hi liber… Nicolai quinti et consiliis…’

= George of Trebizond, Expositio Magne compositionis Ptolomei (C.1.19)

. Introduction, 39r-46r (46v-48v blank); preface to the reader, 49r-49v; I, 49v-66v; II, 67r-81v; III, 81v-91v; IV, 91v-98v; V, 99r-117r; VI, 117v-132v; VII, 133r-133v; VIII, 133v-137r; IX, 137v-149v; X, 150r-159v; XI, 160r-168r (168v blank); XII, 169r-179v; XIII, 180r-198v; colophon, 198v (the colophon, copied at the bottom of f. 198v, is for a great part illegible due to the water damage). Draft version of the text, with numerous autograph corrections.