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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 202 (128/134)

Date:

s. XV² (after 1463), with 16^th c. additions.

Prov.:

northern Italy (perhaps Genoa, cf. f. 77r) in the first quarter of the 16^th c.

Paper, III+81 f., one main hand or two similar hands (f. 1-67 and 67v-74v), with 16^th-c. additions.

Astrology: table of contents, 16^th-c. hand (IIr); chapter index of the Ptolemaic section ‘Tabula Quadripartiti Pth<olom>ei’, added by another 16^th-c. hand (IIIr-IIIv); Ptolemaica (1r-67r); ‘De domino anni. Conveniens est nunc scire dominum vel dominos anni…’ (67v-72r); two tables of lunar mansions, with canon (73r-74v); astrological table, added 1510 (75r); note (76r). Blank: Ir (except ex-libris Biblioteca Laurenziana), Iv, IIv, 72v, 75v-81v (except added notes f. 76r: ‘Anno 1524 completo directio coniunctionis maxime pervenit ad Capricorni gr<adum> 12, m<inutum> 0, s<ecundam> 6’; f. 77r: ‘Die 17 Martii 1524 Genue’; f. 81v: beginning of a zodiacal chorography ‘Arietis: Persia, Britannia, Gallia…’).

Bibl. I codici Ashburnhamiani della R. Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana di Firenze, I.3, Roma, 1891 [Indici e cataloghi VIII], 206-207 (no. 128); P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, II, London-Leiden, 1977, 505.

1r–⁠67r	‘Inter utiliores vias quas in edicionibus viderimus sapientum de astrorum doctrinancium influxibus processus quem gloriosus ille astronomorum signifer Ptholomeus Soludianus in libro quatuor parcium ordinavit… Due sunt species ad pronosticandum complementum requesite secundum quod duobus modis — (64v) ad varietatem colorum prout sepe antea dictum est. Et hec sunt in summa sententie domini Ptholomei de rebus et accidentibus universalibus ex secundo eius libro collecte. Verum quia dominus Haly in fine capituli addit certa verba utilia domini Hermetis in libro suo de accidentibus, scripta et michi visum fuit utile eadem hic subscribere. Verba Hermetis. Dixit Hermes: Ordina significatores primo etc. etc. Primo fortiorem postmodum debiliorem — Hic enim adiunximus multa de dictis Hermetis in quibus proficies si Deus voluerit. Et sic est finis. Sit laus et gloria trinis.’ = 〈Commentum Cracoviense in Quadripartitum a. 1463〉 (C.2.8) . Preface, 1r; Book I, 1r-29v; II, 29v-64v; appendix, 64v-67r. Short marginal notes throughout by the same hand that copied the chapter index f. IIIr-IIIv. Substantial glosses, possibly by the scribe or by yet another hand, f. 40v-41v (quoting Pierre d’Ailly (‘Cameracensis’) extensively) and 54v.

1r–⁠67r

‘Inter utiliores vias quas in edicionibus viderimus sapientum de astrorum doctrinancium influxibus processus quem gloriosus ille astronomorum signifer Ptholomeus Soludianus in libro quatuor parcium ordinavit… Due sunt species ad pronosticandum complementum requesite secundum quod duobus modis — (64v) ad varietatem colorum prout sepe antea dictum est. Et hec sunt in summa sententie domini Ptholomei de rebus et accidentibus universalibus ex secundo eius libro collecte. Verum quia dominus Haly in fine capituli addit certa verba utilia domini Hermetis in libro suo de accidentibus, scripta et michi visum fuit utile eadem hic subscribere. Verba Hermetis. Dixit Hermes: Ordina significatores primo etc. etc. Primo fortiorem postmodum debiliorem — Hic enim adiunximus multa de dictis Hermetis in quibus proficies si Deus voluerit. Et sic est finis. Sit laus et gloria trinis.’

= 〈Commentum Cracoviense in Quadripartitum a. 1463〉 (C.2.8)

. Preface, 1r; Book I, 1r-29v; II, 29v-64v; appendix, 64v-67r. Short marginal notes throughout by the same hand that copied the chapter index f. IIIr-IIIv. Substantial glosses, possibly by the scribe or by yet another hand, f. 40v-41v (quoting Pierre d’Ailly (‘Cameracensis’) extensively) and 54v.