London, British Library, Cotton Appendix VI
s. XIIIex-XIVin (c. 1300).
Or.:probably Paris for f. 1-108 (Stefan Georges, private communication).
Prov.:John Marsham, son of Sir John Marsham (1602-1685), who bequeathed the MS to the Cotton library.
Parchment, 196 f., two hands (f. 1-108 and 109-196).
Astrology and astronomy: table of contents, 17th c. (1v); Guillelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa (2ra-5ra); Astronomia Ypocratis (5ra-8rb); Ptolemaica (8rb-20va and 20va-29rb); ‘Cum volueris scire in quoto tempore unus planetarum coniungitur alteri…’ (29rb-29va); ‘Capitulum multum notabile in accidentibus nati et de eius fine. Universi philosophi et etiam Ptolomeus dixerunt quia ter recesserunt domini triplicitatis…’ (29va-30ra); ‘Capitulum ad sciendum quid aliquis portat in manu sua in hora interrogationis. Ut scias quid sit illud quod aliquis qui te interrogandum venit fert in manu…’ (30ra-31ra); ‘Nota bene has 6 tabulas que secuntur secundum Alb<umasar>. Lune et Saturni aspectus…’ (31ra-31vb); Alchandreana (31vb-45rb); Albumasar, Flores (45rb-53rb); Alkindi, De mutatione temporum (53va-63vb); Theorica planetarum, attr. Alkindi ‘De triplici loco cuiuslibet planete. Cuiuslibet planete assignatur triplex locus… Explicit Iacob Alkindi de theorica planetarum’ (63vb-70ra); canons of Toledan tables (70ra-78va); Alkindi (?), Saturnus in Ariete sub radiis… (78vb-80rb); Aomar, De nativitatibus (80rb-97va); Messahallah, De nativitatibus I (97vb-108va); Alkindi, Iudicia astrorum, tr. Robert of Ketton (109ra-162vb); Albohali, De nativitatibus, tr. Plato of Tivoli (163ra-196vb). Blank: 1r.
Bibl. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum, London, 1802, 614; F. S. Pedersen, ‘A Twelfth-Century Planetary Theorica in the Manner of the London Tables’, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin 60 (1990), 199-318: 204-205; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 126-127; C. G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library. Formation, Catalogying, Use, London, 2003, 225; D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d’origine arabe (
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‘Liber iste est Aristotelis in scientia ipsius astronomie. Signorum alia sunt masculina alia feminina — nec amici neque inimici. Finit liber de interrogationibus.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (B.3)
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20va–29rb
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‘Incipit commentum super premissa, scilicet predictum librum. Artem artium scilicet astronomiam aggredientibus… (21rb) Ptolomeus summus philosophus intendit in hoc opere — tam bonas quam malas querat. Hic terminatur astronomia Aristotelis cum expositione eius.’ = 〈Commentum in Iudicia〉 (C.4.6)
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