PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Harley 2404

s. XV.

Or.:

England.

Prov.:

Samuel Knott (d. 1687); Robert Burscough (d. 1709).

Parchment and paper, 64 pp., several hands somewhat disorderly.

Geomancy: ‘Hec est geomancia Indenea que vocatur filia astronomie quam fecit unus sapientum Indie et est facta per 7 planetas…’ (1-32); ‘Si quid occultum et locum in quo cognoscere desideras…’ (33-58); Ptolemaica (59); Figure septem planetarum ‘Liber de 7 figuris 7 planetarum. Saturnus. Incipit liber de septem figuris septem planetarum per numeros antiquos. Antiqui philosophi in 7 figuris sequentis occultaverunt…’ (60-63); two experimenta (64).

Bibl. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, London, 1808-1812, 4 vols, II, 288; C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London, 1972, 408.

59

‘Explicit translatio magistri Barnardi de Gordonio phisicii (?) regnante Bonefacio papa et Radulpho electo imperatore et Philippo rege Francie filio quondam Philippi regis Francie et Iacobo rege Maioritarum et Beringario episcopo Magdaletius (?) et Edwardo rege Anglorum, anno domini millesimo CCmo 95º in Monte Pessulano per 12, 19 Gednay (?).’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Archanum magni Dei de reductione geomancie ad orbem (B.17)

, colophon only at the top of p. 59 and in a hand that looks different form the hand that copied the text on pp. 33-58, which ends ‘ita intelligendum de mulieribus. Et hec sufficiant que sunt de natura figurarum in se’. No glosses.