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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 618

Date:

s. XIV2 (c. 1352, cf. note f. 25r: ‘Hic nota quod anno 1351 completo introitus Solis I principium Arietis…’ and f. 64v: ‘Anno Christi 1351 completo introitus Solis in principium Arietis…’, with additions in 1421).

Or.:

Germany (perhaps Magdeburg), copied by one Eber Gogelman, cf. f. 63r: ‘… scriptus per manus Eb<er> quomodo tu velis etc. Gogelman’.

Prov.:

in Cracow no later than 1407 (cf. added note f. 64v: ‘Anno Cristi 1407 introitus’); Johannes de Ludzisko, who added texts on originally blank pages (f. 6bisr-6bisv, 9ra-11vb and 18v-20r) in 1421, cf. f. 9vb: ‘Et sic est finis Canonum eclipsium magistri dankonis anno domini 1421 feria sexta ad vincula sancti Petri finite et per manus Iohannis de Ludziczsko scripti’; ‘Anno … (?) 145… (?) iste codex comparatus est per me … (?) Schopps’ (f. Ir).

Paper (except f. 25 and 36, on parchment), I+64+Ia f., a single hand (Eber Gogelman), with additions by Johannes de Ludzisko.

Astronomy and astrology: Theorica planetarum Gerardi (Iva-3vb); John of Saxony, Canones (4ra-8vb), including notes ‘Rursus si equatio prima et secunda fuerint equales…’ added by Johannes de Ludzisko on an inserted sheet of paper of smaller size (6bisr-6bisv); John of Saxony, Canones eclipsium, added by Johannes de Ludzisko (9ra-11vb); John of Ligneres, Canones primi mobilis (13ra-17vb); ‘De domino anni sunt due oppiniones. Aliqui enim volunt…’ (17vb); table: ‘Tabula ad inveniendum motum Solis et Lune in uno minuto diei’ (18r); lunar tables, added by Johannes de Ludzisko (18v-19r); ‘Declinationem cuiuslibet gradus zodiaci invenire…’, added by Johannes de Ludzisko (19va-20ra); John of Ligneres, ascension table for latitude 51° (23v-24r); ‘Hic nota quod anno Christi 1351 completo introitus Solis principium Arietis…’ (25r); Alfonsine tables (25v-64r); ‘Et quia sepe queritur que hora sit…’ (64va); Ptolemaica (64va-64vb); table: ‘Radices motuum hic positarum ad eram Iesu Christi’ (64vb). Blank: 12, 20v-23r, 24v-25r (except note f. 25r). The inner front cover, f. Ir, f. Iar-Iav and the inner back cover contain scattered astronomical notes.

Bibl. W. Wisłocki, Katalog rękopisόw Biblijoteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, I, Krakόw, 1877, 194-195; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 554 (index); M. Kowalczyk et al., Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum medii aevi latinorum qui in Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracoviae asservantur, IV: Numeros continens inde a 564 usque ad 667, Wrocław, 1988, 318-325; M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 299.

64va–⁠64vb

‘Dixerunt Tpolomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora et hoc expertus fuit multociens.’