PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 10903

Date:

s. XV.

Prov.:

perhaps Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618).

Paper, 263 f., a single hand.

Ptolemaica (single text). Blank: 263v.

Bibl. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter Graecos et Orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, VI: Cod. 9001-11500, Wien, 1873, 251; J. Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond, Binghamton (NY), 1984, 77; M. Franz, ‘Die Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Philipp Eduard Fugger mit Berücksichtigung der Handschriften des Johannes Schöner in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek’, Codices Manuscripti 14 (1988), 61-133: 110.

1r–⁠263r

‘Georgii Trapezuntii ad libros Magnae Ptholomaei compositionis introductio. Capitulum primum de divisione omnis circuli et praecipue zodaici (!). Quoniam libros Ptholomaei de motibus coelestium, quibus nescio an quicquam altius ac rationis et scientiae via certius inveniri aut fingi possit ex Graeca lingua in Latinam vertimus… (14v) Expositio Magnae compositionis Ptholomaei a Georgio Trapezunda facta incipit. Codicis huius quem exposituri gratia salvatoris sumus volumina librique tredecim sunt, in quibus Ptholomaeus intendit erraticarum stellarum et fixarum motus invenire — (262v) maius inter observationes temporis spatium exigitur quam vita hominis sit.’ (followed by diagrams and notes).

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

. Introduction, 1r-14r; Book I, 14v-40r; II, 40r-71r; III, 71r-87v; IV, 87v-101r; V, 101r-130r; VI, 130r-155v; VII, 155v-157v; VIII, 157v-163r; IX, 163r-185r; X, 185r-199v; XI, 199v-213r; XII, 213r-231r; XIII, 231r-262v; diagrams and notes, 262v-263. No glosses. A few marginal notes by the scribe.