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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Bernkastel-Kues, Cusanusstiftsbibiothek, 215

Date:

s. XIV1.

Or.:

France (?).

Prov.:

Nicolaus Cusanus; St Nikolaus Hospital in Kues in 1464.

Parchment, 132 f., a single neat hand, decorated initials.

Optics and astronomy: Johannes Peckham, Perspectiva communis (1ra-24rb); William of Saint-Cloud, Almanach planetarum 1293-1311 (24va-31va); Prophatius Judeus, Almanach (32r-94v); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (95ra-96ra); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (96rb-98v); Ptolemaica (99ra-101rb); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (101rb-102va); astronomical tables with canons, in French (103r-132vb).

Bibl. J. Marx, Verzeichnis der Handschriften-Sammlung des Hospitals zu Cues, Trier, 1905 (reprinted Frankfurt/Main, 1966), 209-211; A. Krchňák, ‘Die Herkunft der astronomischen Handschriften und Instrumente des Nikolaus von Kues’, Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 3 (1963), 109-181: 174-175; R. I. Harper, The Kalendarium Regine of Guillaume de St.-Cloud, PhD dissertation, Emory University, 1966, 21; J.-P. Boudet, M. Husson, ‘The Earliest Astronomical Tables in French (c. 1271)’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 43 (2012), 287-298: 287-288.

99ra–⁠101rb

‘Incipit liber Tebit de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis ― aut propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Expletus est liber Tebit filii Core de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti’ [added, probably by the same hand: ‘sive liber de diffinitionibus’].