PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.3

s. XV2 (1477 for f. 24-59, cf. colophon; 1460 for f. 4-21, cf. f. 21r).

Or.:

copied by Lorenzo di Silvestro Guiducci da Corna, canon of San Lorenzo in Florence.

Prov.:

San Lorenzo in Florence.

Paper, 133 f. (modern foliation in pencil, bottom right corner), a single hand.

Astrology and astronomy: table of contents of f. 4-59 (1r); astrological notes ‘De triplicitatibus et dominis earum’ and ‘De aspectus’ (1v-3v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (4r-21r); ‘Cum fuerit Luna cum Capite vel Cauda in uno signo…’ (21v); ‘Tabula facierum’ (21v); ‘Incipit liber de utilitate astrolabii. Astrolapsus est utilis…’ (22ra-23ra); astronomical table (23ra); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (23v); Ptolemaica (24r-59v); ‘Notabilia artis physionomae secundum diversos auctores. Diverse membrorum dispositiones…’ (59v-61v); Ptolemaica (62r-105r); ‘De nativitatibus utilia quedam et necessaria. Capitulum primum. Certitudo gradus ascendentis…’ (108r-123v); ‘Capitulum primum de extractione quarundam partium in nativitatibus et revolutionibus’ said to be borrowed from Guido Bonatti (124r-125v); John of Saxony, comm. on Alcabitius’s Introductorius, excerpts (125v-133r); astrological notes ‘Nota ista notabilia que ex diversis voluminibus extraxi…’ (133r-133v). Blank: 105v-107v.

Bibl. A. M. Bandini, Catalogus Codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae, II, Firenze, 1775, 5-7; T. De Robertis, C. Di Deo, M. Marchiaro, I manoscritti datati della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze, I: Plutei 12-34, Firenze, 2008, 64-65.

24r–⁠59v

‘Laurentii Bonincontri Miniatensis super Centiloquio Ptolomei. Astrologiam esse omnium liberalium artium excellentissimam, nemo est qui ignoret tum propter ipsius scientie nobilitatem… (24v) Scientia stellarum ex te et illis est, hoc est ut sis homo bone vite — a signis celi nolite metuere. Deo igitur laus, honor et glora per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. Laurentii Bonincontri Miniatensis commentum super Centiloquio Ptholomei feliciter explicit. Transcriptum per me Laurentium Silvestri canonicum ecclesie Sancti Laurentii Flor<entie> die X Maii 1477, hora 22 ½ .’

= Lorenzo Bonincontri, Commentum super Centiloquio Ptholomei (C.3.14)

. A few marginal corrections and notes by the scribe, more substantial f. 31v-32r.

62r–⁠105r

‘Exerpta per me Laurentium Bonincontrum Miniatensem ex Quadripartito Ptholomei et expositione Hali commentatoris sive Porphiri. Ex capitulo primo commenti. <S>cientia stellarum est ars a principiis certis aliarum scientiarum proveniens, quibus ea que accidunt possunt sciri cuius principia in phisicis… Ex textu et commento de pronosticandi scientia. Duas esse res quibus pronosticandi scientia perficitur et has maiores aliis quia de omnibus rebus potest cognoscere astrologus — et extrahemus a locis mensium et dabimus cuilibet signo duos dies et tertium. Finis. Deo gratias.’

= Lorenzo Bonincontri, Excerpta ex Quadripartito Ptholomei (C.2.9)

. Book I, 62r-71v; II, 71v-79r; III, 79r-94v; IV, 94v-105r. A few marginal notes by the scribe.