London, British Library, Royal 12.E.XV
s. XIII-XIV.
Prov.:Edward IV before his accession (f. 2v: ‘Iste liber constat Edwardo comiti Marchie primogenitus filius ducis Eboraci’).
Parchment, 136 f., two hands (f. 3-18 and 19-135). The second (and main) hand is rather neat, with golden initials at the beginning.
Medicine, natural philosophy and astrology: short medical texts on bloodletting, women’s diseaces, anatomy, etc. (3r-18v); Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum (19r-116r); Ptolemaica (117r-135r); added notes on planetary distances (136v). Blank: 1-2 (except ex-libris and a few notes), 116v, 135v-136r.
Bibl. G. F. Warner, J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, II: Royal MSS 12 A.I to 20 E.X and App. 1-89, London, 1921, 54-55; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 249-250.
117r–135r
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‘Incipit liber 100 verborum Ptholomei. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi fore libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Verbum primum. Scientia stellarum ex te et ex illis — (132v) ad occidentem erit hostis de regno ipso. 99. De nominibus cometarum. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iste stelle cum caudis sunt IIa (!) — (133v) in regibus et divitibus apparebit. 100. Dixit Ptholomeus et Hermes: (134r) Locus Lune in hora qua infunditur — ubi eam inveneris erit ascendens nativitatis. Explicit Centilogium Ptholomei philosophi cui Deus parcat.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (‘Mundanorum’ version) (C.3.1.3)
, in ‘Mundanorum 2’. The commentary is missing, but this section contains unusually large margins, which have been left blank. The text includes Pseudo-Ptolemy’s De cometis (B.4) on f. 132v-133v (see below) and Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.5) on f. 133v-135r (see below), as v. 99 and 100 respectively. No glosses. |
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132v–133v
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‘99. De nominibus cometarum. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iste stelle cum caudis sunt IIa (!) — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4)
, as v. 99 of the Centiloquium (see above). No glosses. |
133v–135r
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‘100. Dixit Ptholomeus et Hermes: (134r) Locus Lune in hora qua infunditur — ubi eam inveneris erit ascendens nativitatis.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5)
, as v. 100 of the Centiloquium (see above). No glosses. |