Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 1035
s. XIII1.
Or.:Italian hand.
Prov.:Jacobus Carpensis, prior of Santa Maria near Naples, 15th c. (f. Iv: ‘Ego frater Iacobus Carpensis, prior monasterii Sancte Marie extra Neapolim, ordinis Montis Oliveti, subscripsi’ and f. 131v: ‘Ego, frater Iacobus, prior, qui supra subscripsi’); Francesco de’Medici in 1525 (f. 131v).
Parchment, I+131 f., a single neat hand, except for f. 130v-131v, added by a later hand.
Astronomy mainly: Ptolemaica (1ra-79va); Menelaus, Spherica (81ra-104ra); ‘Volo ostendere quod omnium trium linearum proportionalium…’ (104rb-104vb); Thebit Bencora, De figura sectore, tr. Gerard of Cremona (105ra-110ra); Alpetragius, De motibus celorum (112ra-129vb); star table for 1185 in Toledo (129vb-130r); Revelatio Esdrae ‘Si kalende Ianuarii fuerint die dominico, yems calidus erit…’ (130va-130vb); ‘Incipit cursus Lune dodicim (!) mensium…’ (130vb-131va); zodiologium ‘Quando Luna fuerit in Aquario, signo firmo, bonum est plantare…’ (131va-131vb). Blank: 80, 110v-111v.
Bibl. H. Martin, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, II, Paris, 1886, 246-247; A. A. Björnbo, Studien über Menelaos’ Sphärik. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Sphärik und Trigonometrie der Griechen, Leipzig, 1902, 138; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 154.
1ra–79va
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‘[space for title, left blank or erased] <S>cientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est declaratio eius. Completus est tractatus nonus et est ultimus libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’ = Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)
. Preface, 1ra-2ra; I, 2ra-10ra; II, 10ra-19vb; III, 19vb-24ra; IV, 24ra-32va; V, 32va-46rb; VI, 46rb-57va; VII, 57va-69ra; VIII, 69ra-73rb; IX, 73rb-79va. Glosses by the scribe, including a massive gloss f. 50v-51r. |
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