Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Fondo antico lat. Z. 344 (1878)
s. XIIImed (glosses by the scribe mentioning the years 1252 and 1254 f. 9v and 12v: ‘Nota quod M.CC.LII in kalendis Martii intravit tercius annus frigdarie Mercurii’ and ‘Facta probatione per multas rationes M.CC.LIIII de stella que dicitur Cor L<eonis?> est in Leone 20 g<radu> 2 m<inuto>’; the MS is wrongly dated to the 14th c. by Valentinelli and Pedersen, and to the 15th c. by Lemay).
Or.:Italy.
Parchment, 236 f. (with 31-50 and 115-116 missing and foliation skipping f. 102, 174 and 198), a single neat hand (except for f. 63rb-64vb), painted initials f. 1r, 79r, 103r, 117r, 155r, 175r and 199r, decorated initials.
Astrology and astronomy: Pseudo-John of Seville, Epitome totius astrologie (1ra-30va); Zael, De electionibus (51ra-58va); ‘Hoc est extractum de opere phylosophorum de Luna in signis omnibus. Luna in Ariete sive questio precedat…’ (59ra-63ra); ‘Hic est quidam deffectus libri Mesaela qui est in fine 4 particule ubi est una crux et est de ellectionibus et incipit 5 particula Aristotelis plenior artibus. Cum aliquid vis emere partem fortune…’ (63rb-64vb, added by another hand); table: elections from the aspects of the Moon with the other planets (67v); horoscopic diagram summarising the nature of the 12 signs (68r); table: elections from the aspects of the Moon with the other planets (68v); Messahallah, De significationibus planetarum in nativitate (69ra-76ra); ‘Incipit opus phylosophorum ad eligendum bonum a malo in inceptione operum per cursum Lune in duodecim signis…’ (76ra-78va); ‘De aeris mutatione vel pluvia. Indicabis autem particulariter de aeris mutatione sic…’ (78va-78vb); Alcabitius, Introductorius (79ra-102vb); Albumasar, Flores (103ra-114vb); Zael, Liber iudiciorum (117ra-154ra, Introductorium, Quinquaginta precepta and De interrogationibus); Ptolemaica (155ra-173va); Alfraganus, De scientia astrorum, tr. Gerard of Cremona (175ra-197rb); canons of Toledan tables (199ra-218va); ‘Canones de cognitione eclipsis Solis et Lune. Nota quod quando vis coniunctionem vel preventionem…’ (218vb-221rb); ‘Ad faciendum almanac. Cum volueris facere almanath, invenias punctum Solis…’ (221rb-222va); ‘Ad emendationem tabularum. Ad emendationem tabularum dupla primam lineam…’ (222va-222vb); ‘Iste canon fac<it?> pro quadrante. Nota quod in capite 21 gradus…’ (222vb-223ra); Canones super tabulas Humeniz philosophi summi Egiptiorum (223ra-223va); ‘Theorica planetarum [title added by another hand]. Movetur Sol sub circulo signorum qui dicitur zodiacus…’ (224ra-228vb); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (229ra-233vb); ‘Si vis scire horas per pluras…’ (234ra). Blank: 65r-67r, 154v, 198v, 234v-236v (except for scattered notes f. 235v). Blank: 197v.
Bibl. J. Valentinelli, Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Codices MSS. Latini, IV, Venezia, 1871, 278-280 (XI.104); P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, II, London-Leiden, 1977, 213; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 278-280; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 182-183.
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155ra–155rb
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‘Dixit Ptolomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora — expertus fuit multotiens.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5)
, as part of the Centiloquium (see below). Glosses by the scribe. |
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155rb–155vb
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‘Tolomeus dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt novem — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4)
, as part of the Centiloquium (see below). A couple of short glosses by the scribe. |
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155ra–173va
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‘Centiloquium Ptolomaei [title added by another hand]. Dixit Ptolomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora — (155rb) expertus fuit multotiens. Tolomeus dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt novem — (155vb) in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Dixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Iesure, libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in seculo hoc… Verbum primum. Scientia stellarum ex te et illis est… (156ra) Expositio. Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et ex illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — et ego Deum precor ut te diligat. Et perfecta est huius libri translatio 17 die mensis Martii, 12 die mensis Gumedi secundi anno Arabum 5302 (!).’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1)
, opening with Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.5), 155ra-155rb (see above), and De cometis (B.4), 155rb-155vb (see above). Substantial glosses by the scribe, sometimes introduced by ‘Sensus huius…’ or ‘Sensus huius littere…’. |