PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4075

Date:

s. XVin (1411).

Or.:

copied in Lucca by Conradus Gruter de Werdena (cf. f. 142r: ‘Scriptus est iste liber et completus in civitate Lucana anno domini 1411 per me Conradum de Entzen, alias Gruter de Werdena Colonien<sis> dyoc<esis>, tempore quo moram traxi apud magnificum dominum Paulum de Guinigiis, dicte Lucane civitatis dominum generalem’).

Prov.:

Pope Nicholas V.

Parchment, 142 f., a single neat hand.

Astrology: Ptolemaica (1r-52v); Albumasar, De magnis coniunctionibus (53r-142r). Blank: 142v.

Bibl. Inventarium librorum Latinorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae (handwritten catalogue), V, 98; A. Manfredi, I codici Latini di Niccolò V. Edizione degli inventari e identificazione dei manoscritti, Vaticano, 1994, 392 (no. 623).

1r–⁠52v

‘Liber quatuor tractatuum Ptholomei in scientia iudiciorum astrorum. Et sunt in primo tractatu capitula viginti septem. De hiis hiis communiter que ad totum librum pertinent… [chapter index of Book I]. (1v) Capitulum primum de hiis communiter que ad totum librum pertinent. Iuxta providam philosophorum assertionem quos videlicet in prescientia futurorum astris signa prebentibus — adhibeatur intentio liquidius aperire sufficiet. Ad laudem omnipotentis Dei finitur Quadripartitus Ptholomei. Finitur liber quatuor partituum (!) sive tractatuum Ptholomei.’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Hugo Sanctelliensis) (A.2.2)

. I, 1r-18v; II, 18v-31v; III, 31v-42v; IV, 42v-52v. No glosses.