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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, University College, lat. 16

s. XV2 (f. 39-133 were copied in 1467 and 1468, and so were certainly f. 3-38, despite the colophon f. 21rb giving the date 1406 (see below), which would rather be the date of the exemplar (as suggested by Ker) or a mistake for 1466).

Or.:

Siena for f. 3-38, if the colophon f. 21rb is reliable: ‘… per me Filipum die penultimo Septembris 1406 in civitate Senarum’; f. 39-69 were copied ‘per me Hainricum Langenbach anno etc. 68’ (f. 69va), and f. 73-123r and 127r-133v by one Paul of Olomouc, cf. ‘… per me Paulum de Olomuncz’ (f. 100rb) and ‘per me Paulum de Iulcrimonte anno nativitatis domini MoCCCC67’ (f. 116ra).

Paper, 133 f., four hands (I: f. 3-38; II: f. 39-69; III: f. 73-123r and 127r-133v; IV: 123v-124v).

Astrology, astronomy, medicine and arithmetic: table of contents, added (2v); Ptolemaica (3ra-17ra); Hermes, Centiloquium (17ra-18va); Capitula Almansoris (18vb-21rb); Gergis, De significatione septem planetarum in domibus (21rb-23va); Guillelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa (23vb-26ra); onomancy ‘Si vis scire de aliquo an periclitetur vel non, ipsius nomen dividens per 9…’ (26ra-26rb); Arnold of Villanova (?), De aqua vite (26va-33rb); ‘Sequitur hic quedam recapitulacio de proprietatibus… aque…’ (33va-34va); ‘Incipit tractatus de iudicendis egris ad salutem vel ad mortem et de urinis non inspectis secundum astrologiam per interrogationem sive questionem. Deus omnipotentis posuit naturas creaturarum et motus…’ (34vb-38ra); ‘Quando a te queretur pro scientia alicuius si est veritas vel mendacium…’ (38rb-38vb); ‘De secreta scientia philosophorum… Secreta scientia philosophorum est apud doctos astrologos…’ (39ra-39vb); Nicolaus de Comitibus, astrometeorology ‘Cum te ab ineunte etate…’ (43ra-69va); Thaddeus of Parma, Expositio super theorica planetarum (73ra-100rb); Alcabitius, Introductorius (103ra-116ra); Astronomia Ypocratis (117ra-119va); Messahallah, Liber interpretationum, c. 1-2 (119va-120ra); Alchandreana ‘Nunc illud explicare debemus que stella quot horas dies, menses, annos bene collocata…’ (120ra-121va); Alchandreana ‘Si societatem hominum vis prenoscere si bona vel mala fuerit futura cursum Solis et Lune…’ (121va-123ra); Alchandreana ‘Item prologus de via accipienda vel non … (?). Si quis viam aliquam pergere incipiet…’ (123ra-123rb); star table for 1455 (123v-124v); Mattheus Moretus de Brixia, Introductorium in arithmetica ad calculum astronomie (127r-127v, repeated 128r-129v); canons of Alfonsine tables ‘Nunc accedam ad expositionem tabularum Alphonsii…’ (129v-132v); ‘Secreta iudicia huius artis sunt valde dispersa in capitulis librorum…’ (133ra-133va). Blank: 1-2r, 40-42, 70-72, 100v-102v, 116v, 125-126.

Bibl. D. K. Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College, London, 1935, 15-16; N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, I: London, Oxford, 1969, 345-346; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV, London-Leiden, 1989, 216; L. Moulinier-Brogi, Guillaume l’Anglais, le frondeur de l’uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe siècle), Genève, 2011, 219-220.

3ra–⁠3rb

‘<D>ixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes: Et locus Lune in hora — et hic expertus fuit multociens.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5)

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

3rb–⁠3va

‘<P>tholomeus <dixit> quod stelle cum caudis sunt novem — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4)

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

3ra–⁠17ra

‘Incipit liber centum verborum Ptholomei. <D>ixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes: Et locus Lune in hora — (3rb) et hic expertus fuit multociens. <P>tholomeus <dixit> quod stelle cum caudis sunt novem — (3va) in regibus et divitibus apparebit. <D>ixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Iesure, libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… (3vb) Verbum I. <S>cientia stellarum ex te et illis… <Q>uod dixit Ptholomeus, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — et ego Deum precor nisi te diligat. Et prefecta est huius libri translacio. Expletus est liber centum verborum Ptholomei.’

= Abuiafar Hamet filii Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1)

. The text opens with Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.5) on f. 3ra-3rb (see above) and De cometis (B.4) on f. 3rb-3va (see above). No glosses.