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Cambridge, University Library, Peterhouse 52

Date:

s. XIII^ex-XIVⁱⁿ.

Or.:

England (f. 115-118; the core of the MS is in an Italian hand with English decoration, see Thomson).

Prov.:

John of Stockton (doctor of medicine, fellow of Peterhouse in 1339 and rector of Brighton), who gave the MS to Peterhouse, cf. f. 143r: ‘Iste liber constat magistro Iohannis de Stockon de Brynton Lyncoln<ensis> dioc<esis> super Broneswolde’, and f. Iv: ‘Iste liber constat communitati domus Sancti Petri ex legato magistri Iohannis de Stoketon, doctoris in medicina, cuius anime propicietur Deus’.

Parchment, I+143 f., a single hand, except for the Ptolemaic section, added slightly later by another hand, painted initials at the beginning of each section, numerous decorated initials.

Medicine and astrology: table of contents, 15^th c. (Iv); Gilbertus Anglicus, Compendium medicine (1ra-92rb); ‘Causarum vero sunt IIII species, utiles, efficientes, formales et finales…’ (92va-94vb); Mattheus Platearius, De simplicibus medicine (95ra-110ra); Antidotarium Nicolai (110ra-115rb); Ptolemaica (115va-118vb); Mattheus Platearius, Practica brevis, incomplete (119ra-142rb). Blank: Ir, 142v-143.

Bibl. M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1899, 72-73; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 235-236; R. M. Thomson, A descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Cambridge, 2016, 30.

115va–⁠118vb	‘Scientia stellarum et ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Haly. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Yesure, id est domine, libros, scilicet in Quadripartito, de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo — Et ego Deum precor ut te dirigat. Et perfecta est huius libri translatio 3^o die mensis Martii, secundo die mensis Cuinedi (?) secundi Arabum 309. Explicit.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1) . One marginal note by the scribe f. 117vb.

115va–⁠118vb

‘Scientia stellarum et ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Haly. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi, Yesure, id est domine, libros, scilicet in Quadripartito, de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo — Et ego Deum precor ut te dirigat. Et perfecta est huius libri translatio 3^o die mensis Martii, secundo die mensis Cuinedi (?) secundi Arabum 309. Explicit.’

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

. One marginal note by the scribe f. 117vb.