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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Dep. Erf. CA 2º 380

Date:

s. XIV2.

Or.:

probably Erfurt.

Prov.:

Amplonius Rating de Berga (c. 1365-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412.

Parchment, 145 f., several hands, one of which copied f. 131-142.

Astronomy, optics, mathematics, physics and astrology: Thaddeus of Parma, Expositio super theorica planetarum (1ra-28vb); Henry of Langenstein, Questiones super perspectivam, attr. Nicole Oresme (29ra-40vb); astronomy ‘Ad laudem et ad gloriam beate et in te…’ (41ra-41va); Themo Judei, Questio disputata in Erfordia apud Scotos de motu Lune (42ra-48ra); Thomas Bradwardine, Tractatus proportionum (49ra-58rb); diagram: proportions (58v); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Liber de ponderibus (59ra-60rb); ‘Queratur circa proporciones utrum proporcio velocitatum…’ (67ra-83vb); ‘Consequenter circa ultimum capitulum textus de proporcionibus queratur utrum velocitates motuum circularium…’ (84ra-92vb); comm. on Sacrobosco’s De sphera ‘Res omniformes ex quibus sciencia perficitur sunt due…’ (93ra-122ra); ‘Circa tractatum de spera primo queritur utrum diffinicio spere…’ (123ra-130vb); Ptolemaica (131r-140r, 140r-140v and 140v); Thebit Bencora, De imaginibus (140v-142v). Blank: 48v, 60v-66v, 122v, 143-145.

Bibl. W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 266-268.

131r–⁠140r

‘Dixit Ptolomeus: Iam scripsi sunt tibi, Iesure, libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Scientia stellarum et ex te et illis est… <Q>uod dixit Ptolomeus, ex te et aliis (!), significat quod qui res futuras cognoscere desiderat — Et ego Deum precor ut te diligat. Et perfecta est huius libri translatio 17 die mensis Marcii, 12 die mensis Gumudi (?) secundi anno Arabum 5302 (!).’

140r–⁠140v

‘Incipit liber cometarum Ptolomei cum commento Haly [title added in the margin by the scribe]. Ptolomeus dixit quod stelle cum caudis sunt 9 — in regibus et divitibus apparebit.’

140v

‘Emendatio commenti propositionis 51 huius Centiloquii [title added in the margin by the scribe]. <D>ixit Ptolo<me>us et Hermes quod locus Lune in hora in qua — et hoc expertus fui multociens. Explicit. Deo laus et gloria.’