PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. Soppr. A.I.1475

Date:

s. XIII-XIV.

Prov.:

Florence, basilica della Santissima Annunziata.

Parchment, 80 f., a single hand, painted initials at the beginning of each section.

Astronomy: Ptolemaica (1ra-70va); Tres Fratres Filii Moysi [Banū Mūsā], Verba filiorum Moysi filii Sekir (70vb-80ra). Blank: 80v (except for scattered notes added by another hand).

Bibl. Inventario dei MSS dei Conventi Soppressi (handwritten catalogue), 1; Catalogo di manoscritti filosofici nelle biblioteche italiane, IX: G. Pomaro, Firenze, Firenze, 1999, 56-58.

1ra–⁠70va

‘Comentum Geber super Almagesti. Verba Heber (!) filii Asta (!) Yspalensis. Scientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est eius declaratio. Explicit tractatus nonus et est ultimus huius libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum. Deo gratias. Amen.’

= Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)

. Preface, 1ra-2ra; I, 2ra-9rb; II, 9rb-16rb; III, 16rb-20vb; IV, 20vb-28rb; V, 28rb-40va; VI, 40va-50vb; VII, 50vb-61ra; VIII, 61ra-65ra; IX, 65ra-70va. Substantial glosses by the scribe or a similar hand.