PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1116

Date:

s. XVmed (after 1441, cf. f. 192v).

Or.:

Low Countries, f. 24-192 copied by Johannes de Blisia (Bilzen, near Tongeren).

Prov.:

Heidelberg, Bibliotheca Palatina; Vatican library in 1623.

Paper, 192 f. MS made of two parts, each copied by a single hand (f. 1-23 and 24-192).

Medicine, astral magic and astrological medicine: Avicenna, Canon, part of Book I (1ra-23vb); Astronomia Ypocratis, first three lines only (24r); ‘Virga visoria. Si vis ubilibet terrarum conficere virgam visoriam…’ (25r); Henry Bate of Mechelen, De diebus creticis periodorumque causis, beginning only (26r); Hermannus de Schildesche, Divisio metrica ac generalis descriptio totius philosophie ac omnium artium (26va-26vb); texts and excerpts of medicine (27r-113r); prayers (113v); ‘Alique ymagines constellationes. Ymago ad destruendum civitatem. Fiat ymago sub hora et sub ipsius ascendente civitatis…’ (114ra-115vb); Hermes/Belenus, De viginti quattuor horis (115va-115vb); Hermes/Belenus, De imaginibus diei et noctis (115vb-116vb); Hermes/Belenus, De quattuor imaginibus magnis (116vb-117ra); Hermes/Belenus, De discretione operis differencia ex iudiciis Hermetis (117ra-117vb); Henry Bate of Mechelen, De diebus creticis periodorumque causis (118ra-125ra); notes of medicine (125rb); ‘Inchoat canon circuli 16 angulorum infrascripti de diebus creticis. Circulus 16 angulorum describit dies creticos…’ (125v); Ptolemaica (125v-126v); ‘Tractatus Abel de ymaginibus. Et hunc librum Albertus Magnus vocat…’ (127r-127v); Regimen sanitatis (128r-131va) and other texts of medicine (132ra-179v); recipes (191v-192r); two horoscopes of nativity for ‘Lodwijc Gheberte’ born in 1441 and ‘Fighure de gheborn Iakennin eende de 5e dach in Marcii int jaar 1440’ (192v). Blank: 24v, 25v, 180-191r.

Bibl. Inventarium manuscriptorum Latinorum Bibliothecae Palatinae (handwritten catalogue), 425; L. Schuba, Die medizinischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek, Wiesbaden, 1981, 62-66.

125v–⁠126v

‘Sentencia Linconensis de diebus creticis. Habetur nunc sentencia Linconensis scilicet de diebus creticis super verbo 60 Centiloquii. Crises verius significatio sunt hore etc. In isto verbo 60 Ptolomeus tria tangit, primum est de occasione dierum creticorum — immo Luna attestatur super egritudines acutas, et est finis predictorum.’