PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 224

Date:

s. XIIIin (for f. 42-141; f. 2-41 and 142-190 are from the 12th c.).

  Prov.:

St Mary’s Abbey of York by the 14th c. (f. 2r: ‘Liber beate Marie Ebor’); John Dee; Brian Twyne (d. 1644), who bequeathed the MS to Corpus Christi College.

Parchment, 190 f. Composite MS made of four parts bound together in the 13th c. (f. 2-41, 42-113, 114-141 and 142-190). The third part, containing the Ptolemaic section, is in a single hand.

Scientific texts: two tables of contents of the whole MS (inner front cover, late 13th-c. hand; and f. 1v, 14th-c. hand); Boethius, De arithmetica (2r-41v); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. John of Seville (42r-69r); Boethius, De musica, Books I-IV (69v-113r); Euclid, Elementa, version ‘Adelard II’ (114r-138v); Ptolemaica (139r-141r); Boethius, De musica (142r-188v). Blank: 1r, 113v, 141v, 189-190.

Bibl. H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adversantur, II, Oxford, 1852, Codices MSS. Collegii Corporis Christi, 89; J. Roberts, A. G. Watson, John Dee’s Library Catalogue, London, 1990, 127 (M167); H. L. L. Busard, M. Folkerts, Robert of Chester’s (?) Redaction of Euclid’s Elements, the so-Called Adelard II Version, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 1992, I, 68; Codices Boethiani. A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, eds M. T. Gibson, L. Smith, London, 1995, 225; R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford, Oxford, 2011, 109.

139r–⁠141r

‘Propositiones planisphaerii Ptolomei cum quibusdam a Maslem quodam… [title added in upper margin by a 16th-c. hand]. Quoslibet duos circulos equidistantes recto in spera corporea — (140v) per polum zodiaci transire necesse habet. Expliciunt propositiones. Si a termino unius diametri circuli recti ducatur linea recta — in spera potencialiter ostendit.’

= Ptolemy, Planispherium (tr. Hermann of Carinthia) (A.6.1)

, Propositiones planisperii (with the two additional chapters) only. No glosses.