PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

_ (the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
% (the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
%% (two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

At the beginning and at the end, these placeholders are superfluous.

Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 1035

Date:

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

‘[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.