PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Selden supra 76

Date:

s. XIII2.

Or.:

England.

Prov.:

probably Winchester by the early 16th c. (f. 46v: list of 38 monks of St Swithun, Winchester, added in an early-16th hand).

Parchment, 126 f., one main hand, decorated initials.

Astrology, astronomy, alchemy and various: Roger of Hereford, De quatuor partibus iudiciorum astronomie, incomplete (3r-7r); astrological tables: parts and essential dignities (7r-10r); Roger of Hereford, Liber de tribus generalibus iudiciis astronomie (10v-19v); Liber de motibus planetarum (20r-28r); Algorismi [al-Khwārizmī], astronomical tables, excerpts (28r-29v); canons of astronomical tables and astrolabe chapters ‘Doctrina equationis omnium planetarum. Primo sumantur anni collecti…’ (31r-40v), including Ptolemaica (39v-40v); political philosophy ‘Liber de institutione universitatis. Omni homo naturaliter desiderat…’ (41r-45v); Alkindi (?), De radiis (47r-60v); ‘Liber graduum. Quoniam omnis inequalitas…’ (61r-69v); ‘Liber de vulgari iudicio sermonis. Quoniam plurimi hominum vulgari rerum intellectu…’ (69r-72r); recipes of alchemy (74r-109r); Thetel, Liber sigillorum (109v-112v); nine verses on stones ‘Fert asinus lapidem precio …’ (112v-113r); notes of magic (?), faint or erased (113v-115r); alchemy ‘Michi videtur dicere quod annussadir dum sublevatur aceto…’ (116r-125r). Blank: 1-2, 30, 46r-46v (except notes f. 46v), 72v-73v, 115v, 125v-126v.

Bibl. F. Madan, H. H. E. Craster, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, II.1, Oxford, 1922, 644-645 (no. 3464); M.-T. d’Alverny, F. Hudry, ‘Al-Kindi: De radiis’, Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 41 (1974), 139-260: 195-196; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 150; C. P. E. Nothaft, ‘Ptolemaic Orbs in Twelfth-Century England. A Study and Edition of the Anonymous Liber de motibus planetarum’, Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 3 (2018), 145-210: 174-175.

39v–⁠40v

‘Ptolomeus igitur incedens Mercurii vestigiis in libro suo qui vocatur Almagesti de motu sic ait: Ait enim omnis motus aut de puncto aut ad punctum — absque omni errore a docto artifice perpenditur.’