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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2054

Date:

s. XV² (the copy of the Almagest was completed before George of Trebizond’s death in 1472, while his son, Andreas, wrote the preface to Sixtus IV in 1480 or 1481, see Monfasani, 787-788).

Or.:

George of Trebizond, who corrected the MS.

Prov.:

Andreas of Trebizond; Pope Sixtus IV (?).

Paper, 235 f., two neat hands (f. 1r-3v and f. 4r-235r), deluxe MS richly decorated on f. 1r (coat of arms of Sixtus IV), painted initial at the beginning of each book of the Almagest.

Ptolemaica (single text). Full chapter index of the Almagest (233r-235r). Blank: 232v, 235v.

Bibl. Inventarium librorum Latinorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae (handwritten catalogue), III, 293; B. Nogara, Codices Vaticani Latini. Codices 1401-2059, Roma, 1912, 432-433; J. Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond, Binghamton (NY), 1984, 63.

1v–⁠232r	‘Ad sanctissimum dominum nostrum Sixtum Quartum pont<ificem> max<imum>, Andree Trapezuntii, Georgii filii, in paternam Almagesti Ptolomaei traductionem prefatio. Evolventi mihi nuper libros patris mei, Georgii Trapezuntii, viri optimi et omni doctrinarum genere insignis… (3v) Magne compositionis Ptolomei libri ad Georgio Trapezuntio e Graeco conversi incipiunt. Peroptime mihi videntur, o Syre, qui bene philosophati sunt, speculativam philosophie partem ab activa separasse — idoneum hic modum ac finem haec est compositio consecuta.’ = Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. George of Trebizond) (A.1.4) . Andreas of Trebizond’s preface to Sixtus IV, 1r-3v; I, 3v-20r; II, 20v-45v; III, 45v-61r; IV, 61r-78v; V, 78v-99r; VI, 99v-119r; VII, 119v-137r (137v is blank); VIII, 138r-148r; IX, 148v-168r; X, 168r-181r; XI, 181r-198v; XII, 199r-213v; XIII, 214r-232r. A few corrections by George of Trebizond throughout.

1v–⁠232r

‘Ad sanctissimum dominum nostrum Sixtum Quartum pont<ificem> max<imum>, Andree Trapezuntii, Georgii filii, in paternam Almagesti Ptolomaei traductionem prefatio. Evolventi mihi nuper libros patris mei, Georgii Trapezuntii, viri optimi et omni doctrinarum genere insignis… (3v) Magne compositionis Ptolomei libri ad Georgio Trapezuntio e Graeco conversi incipiunt. Peroptime mihi videntur, o Syre, qui bene philosophati sunt, speculativam philosophie partem ab activa separasse — idoneum hic modum ac finem haec est compositio consecuta.’

= Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. George of Trebizond) (A.1.4)

. Andreas of Trebizond’s preface to Sixtus IV, 1r-3v; I, 3v-20r; II, 20v-45v; III, 45v-61r; IV, 61r-78v; V, 78v-99r; VI, 99v-119r; VII, 119v-137r (137v is blank); VIII, 138r-148r; IX, 148v-168r; X, 168r-181r; XI, 181r-198v; XII, 199r-213v; XIII, 214r-232r. A few corrections by George of Trebizond throughout.