PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cambridge, Magdalene College, F.4.27

Date:

s. XIVex.

Or.:

England.

Prov.:

‘Libellus Iohannis [erased word: Palmare] Londoni’ (f. 129r, lower margin); given by Simon Gunton (1609-1676), prebendary of Peterborough, to Magdalene College (f. VIv).

Paper, VI+178 f., several contemporary hands. F. 174-175 are missing.

Geomancy: Ars geomancie (1r-66r); ‘Hec est geomancia indenea que vocatur filia astronomie…’ (72r-88v); ‘Incipit geomancia de triplicitatibus. Congregatio a se ipsa geminata procedens…’ (89r-107v); tables and notes of geomancy (108r-111v); ‘Si amissum recuperetur an non. Si quis aliquod amissum vis scire an recuperetur an non…’ (112r-117r); Liber arenalis scientie (120r-125v); ‘Fide pariter et ratione naturali coacti credimus et confiteamur… Explicit geomancia magis parata’ (128r-161v); Ptolemaica (166ra-173vb). Blank: Ir-VIr, 66v-71v, 117v-119v, 126-127, 162-165, 176-178.

Bibl. M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the College Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1909, 54-55 (no. 27).

166ra–⁠173vb

‘Per hoc presens possunt cognosci exquisite presentia, preterita et futura in omni eo quod vult homo — sed querens finaliter sperat bonum. Capitulum decimum septime domus…’

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

, abrupt end due to missing folia 174-175. No glosses.