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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Dep. Erf. CA 4º 376

Date:

s. XIVmed (f. 1-117vb copied in 1349, cf. f. 116rb: ‘Expliciunt canones de primo mobili magistri Iohannis de Lineriis anno domino 1349o, die 19 mensis Iunii, in monasterio’).

Or.:

an unnamed monastery (see above). Schum indicates Münster, but does not provide justification.

Prov.:

Amplonius Rating de Berga (c. 1365-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412.

Parchment, 150 f., three contemporary hands (f. 1ra-117vb, 117vb-119va, 122ra-150ra).

Astrology, astronomy, mathematics and physics: Albumasar, Introductorium maius, tr. John of Seville (1ra-92vb); Ptolemaica (94va-105va and 105va-105vb); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (106ra-107ra); John of Ligneres, Canones primi mobilis (107rb-116rb); canons of Toledan tables (116rb-117vb); Jordanus de Nemore (?), De proportionibus (117vb-119va); Alhazen, De speculis comburentibus (122ra-126ra); Euclid, De speculis (126ra-139rb); astronomical diagrams (139v-142v); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Liber de ponderibus (143ra-144va); Jordanus de Nemore, De ratione ponderis (144va-148rb); ‘Si fuerit aliquod corpus ex duobus mixtum…’ (148rb-150ra); table of contents, added late 14th c. (150v). Blank: 93r-94r, 119vb-121v, 150rb.

Bibl. W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 629-631; R. Lemay, Abū Maʿšar al-Balḫī [Albumasar]: Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam judiciorum astrorum, Napoli, 1995-1996, IV, 112-114; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 228; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 112.

94va–⁠105va

‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio ex corporum celestium mutatione procedit, causas que rerum rimaturum primo corpora celestia contemplari, oportet. Ptolomeus: Item premisi libros in quibus tractavi de impressionibus planetarum in hoc mundo… Ptho<lome>us: Sciencia astrorum ex te et illis, nec convenit peritum illorum prophetare… Expositio. Quod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod cum qui res futuras prescire vult — (105ra) et quanto melius quivimus exposuimus. Tho<lome>us: Stelle cum caudis sunt 9 — in regibus et divitibus apparebit. Explicit liber anphorismorum.’

= Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (‘Mundanorum’ version) (C.3.1.3)

. The opening sentence is from ‘Mundanorum’, v. 1-21 from the ‘Iam premisi’ version (C.3.1.4) and v. 22-100 from ‘Mundanorum 2’ (same version in Erfurt, UFB, Dep. Erf. CA 2º 379 and Melk, SB, 601 (olim 51)). No glosses. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) as the last chapter on f. 105ra-105va (see below). Glosses by the scribe or a similar hand.

105ra–⁠105va

‘Tho<lome>us: Stelle cum caudis sunt 9 — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4)

, as part of the Centiloquium (see above). No glosses.

105va–⁠105vb

‘Dixit Tho<lome>us et Hermes quod Lune locus in hora qua infunditur — et hoc expertus fuit multotiens.’