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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 172

Date:

s. XIV (after 1322, cf. f. 190ra: ‘Tradita erat hec Cantori Parisien<si> anno domini 1322 in die beati Iacobi Aprili et transmissa domino Henrico de Urtalis canonico Traiecten<si>’).

Or.:

Italy.

Prov.:

Giovanni Pontano, who copied f. Ir; Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679).

Parchment, 190+I f., three neat hands (f. 1r-42r, 42v-138r, 138r-190r), with additions by two further hands f. 190v and Ir. Beautiful MS with decorated initials.

Astrology: Haly Abenragel, De iudiciis astrorum (1ra-187vb); Ptolemaica (187vb-189vb); John of Toledo, judgement on the conjunction of planets in 1186, although dated 1329 (189vb-190ra); added table for computing the dates of the entry of the Sun into Aries (190v); Petrus Bonus Advogarius, zodiacal chrorography, added by Giovanni Pontano (Ir).

Bibl. Inventarium codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Barberinae (handwritten catalogue), I, 243-244; T. Silverstein, Medieval Latin Scientific Writings in the Barberini Collection, Chicago, 1957, 45-47; M. Rinaldi, ‘Pontano e le tradizioni astrologiche latine medievali: le apostille dell’umanista nel codice Clm 234 della Bayerische Staatsbibliothek di Monaco e nel Barberiniano Latino 172 della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana’, Atti dell’Accademia Pontaniana 52 (2003), 295-324: 315-324.

187vb–⁠189vb	‘Ista est illa nativitas quam ponit Haly Abenrodan in fine Quadripartiti [title in margin by the scribe]. Volo dicere exempla ut melius intelligas quicquid locuti sumus — Et ego primitus volui ponere nat<ivitam> meam quia totum in me probavi et non per auditum.’ = Haly Abenrudian, Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2) , first part of Haly’s appendix only (on his own nativity). The horoscope, missing, was probably meant to be reproduced on f. 188r, left blank.

187vb–⁠189vb

‘Ista est illa nativitas quam ponit Haly Abenrodan in fine Quadripartiti [title in margin by the scribe]. Volo dicere exempla ut melius intelligas quicquid locuti sumus — Et ego primitus volui ponere nat<ivitam> meam quia totum in me probavi et non per auditum.’

= Haly Abenrudian, Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2)

, first part of Haly’s appendix only (on his own nativity). The horoscope, missing, was probably meant to be reproduced on f. 188r, left blank.