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Dublin, Trinity College, 397

Date:

s. XV² (f. 3-96, with the date 1469 given at the top of f. 75r; f. 97-143 were copied in 1416 and 1418, cf. f. 107v: ‘Explevi die 4 mensis Novembre (!) in Padua MCCCC^oXVI, die Mercurii … (?)’ and f. 141v: ‘Explicit quem scrisit (!) Petrus D. anno domini nostri Yesu Christi perfecto 1418 die 20 mensis Aprilis, anno a nativitate mea 23…’).

Or.:

northern Italy, f. 97-143 copied at least partly in Padua (see above); Domenico Bragadino (see f. 81r-94r) taught at Venice in the second half of the 15^th c.

Prov.:

Domenico Grimani, cardinal of Venice (f. 2v: ‘Liber D. Grimani, Cardinalis S. Marci’).

Paper, 143 f., MS made of two parts, each copied by a single hand (f. 1-96 and 97-143).

Astrology and astronomy: table of contents (2r); Pietro d’Abano, De motu octave sphere, attr. Thebit (3r-10v); Ptolemaica (11r-39v, 39v-40r and 40v-41r); astrological notes ‘Albumasar in suo libro magni introductorii tractatu quinto, differentia undecimo (!) dicit quo dum Noe exisset de archa…’ (41r-41v); Gergis, Theorica artium magicarum, excerpt on the lunar mansions ‘Incipit liber Girgit. Nunc incipiam rationes librorum que apparent visibili… monstravit tibi mansionem sui, etc. Explicit liber Girgit de mansionibus Lune’ (41v-45r); Prophatius Judeus, De aspectibus Lune ad alios planetas, attr. Ptolemy: ‘Iudicia aspectuum planetarum inventa in libro Quadripartiti Pth<olome>i et primo sextilis aspectus Lune ad Solem. Fortunata dies ad agenda negotia — Explicit liber iudiciorum secundum Quadripartitum Ptholomei de aspectibus Lunae ad Solem et ad caeteros planetas ad diversa opera efficienda et vitanda que quottidie nobis accident’ (45r-49r); Astronomia Ypocratis (49v-54v); Pseudo-Aristotle, De mundo (54v-63v); Pseudo-Aristotle, De Luna, beginning only (63v); Hermes, Capitulum de arbore borissa (66r-66v); Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Liber aggregationis, section on plants (66v-68v); ‘Primum capitulum sperae. Differentia est inter axem et diametrum… et haec quantum ad tractatum sperae sufficiant’ (75r-81r), with comm. ‘Super capitulo primo sperae notata per d<ominum> Dominicum Bragadinum [Domenico Bragadino]. Spera dupliciter dicitur in substantialem…’ (81r-94r); Sacrobosco, De sphera (97v-107v), with the introduction of Robertus Anglicus’s comm. on this text; Theorica planetarum Gerardi (108r-114v); Andalo di Negro, Theorica planetarum (116r-141v). Blank: 1 (except notes f. 1r), 2v (except owner’s note), 64-65, 69-74, 94-97, 115, 142-143 (except for an incomplete horoscope f. 143v).

Bibl. T. K. Abbott, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin, 1900, 62; P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 194 (D 2.16); M. L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin. Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts, London-Aldershot, 1991, I, 817-821.

11r–⁠39v	‘Comentator libri centum verborum Ph<tolome>i qui dicitur Hally philosophus. Dixit Pth<olome>us: Iam scripsi tibi, Iesure, libros de hoc quod operantur stellae in hoc seculo… Sciencia stellarum ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Hic docetur quomodo astro<logus> iudicare debeat et qualiter iudicium factum… Glosa. Scientia stellarum dividitur in duo, in astronomiam et astrologiam… (11v) Expositio primi verbi. Quod dixit Pth<olome>us, ex te et illis est, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — Et ego Deum deprecor ut te diligat. Perfecta est huius libri translatio 17 die mensis Marcii, 12 die mensis Gumedi secundi anno Arabum 5202 (!). Deo gracias. Amen. Explicit liber 100 verborum Pth<olome>i sive Centiloquii cum comento Hally philosophi.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1) , interspersed with the same original remarks as in MS Seville, BCC, 7-7-30 (see). No glosses, except for one marginal note by the scribe f. 17r.
39v–⁠40r	‘De infusione spermatis secundum Pth<olomeu>m et Hermetem. Dixit Pth<olome>us et Hermes quod locus Lune, scilicet signum, gradus et minutum in quibus erat signum in hora in qua funditur sperma — et hoc expertus fuit multociens.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Dixerunt Ptolemeus et Hermes quod locus Lune... (B.5) . No glosses.
40v–⁠41r	‘Ptho<lome>us dixit quod stellae cum caudis sunt 9 — in regibus (?) et divitibus apparebit.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De cometis (B.4) . No glosses.