Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Dep. Erf. CA 4º 363
s. XIIIex (except for f. 33-37, added in the 14th c.).
Or.:Italy or southern France (Schum), ‘southern’ (Pedersen).
Prov.:the MS was probably in Paris in the first haft of the 14th c. (cf. f. 33r-36r and 98v); Amplonius Rating de Berga (c. 1365-1435); Erfurt, Collegium Porta Coeli in 1412. The note ‘Magister Iacobus Publius Florentinus, Italus et Latinus’ on f. Ir may not be related to the MS.
Parchment, 98 f., a single hand (except for f. 33-37), numerous beautifully decorated initials throughout.
Astronomy and astrology: added astronomical notes, 1347 (Iv); Toledan tables (1r-32v); added astronomical tables (33r-36r), attr. John of Ligneres (in the title f. 33r) and to one ‘Johannes de Madenburch’ in a note f. 35v: ‘Nota quod hec tabula facta est per Iohannem de Madenburch ad annum domini 1330 super meridianum Parysiensem’; table: degrees of the 12 signes grouped by triplicity (36v-37r); added astronomical notes (37v); Albumasar, Introductorium maius, tr. Hermann of Carinthia (38ra-58rb); canons of Toledan tables (58rb-64ra); Albumasar, Flores (64ra-68rb); ‘Capitulum in scientia locorum si aliquid fuerit in eis aut non. Cum hoc volueris, accipe altitudinem et constitue 12 domos…’ (68rb); ‘Cum volueris scire quantitatem longitudinis capitis Arietis et Libre…’ (68rb-68va); ‘Incipit summa Albumazar. Aries est igneum, temperatum effectus et incrementi, masculum, diurnum, colericus…’ (68va-75rb); ‘Apertio portarum dicitur cum coniugitur planeta…’ (75rb-75va); ‘Hic incipit Zahel. Fortior omnibus locis circuli est ascendens…’ (75va-89rb, this text is a compilation only partly based on Zael); Ptolemaica (89va-94ra); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii, c. 1-16 (94ra-95vb), followed without a break by other chapters on the astrolabe ‘Capitulum 14. Sume altitudinis Solis in media die… Finitur liber astrolabii editione Abitricatim de Marcheric, qui dictus est Alaiacherica’ (95vb-97ra); Hermann of Reichenau, De mensura astrolabii (97ra-98rb); added astronomical notes, 1342 and 1346-1351 (98r-98v), including ‘Anno domini 1350 perfecti radices ad Parysius’ (98v).
Bibl. W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin, 1887, 607-609; R. Lemay, Abū Maʿšar al-Balḫī [Albumasar]: Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam judiciorum astrorum, Napoli, 1995-1996, VII, 8-27; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 340-341; F. S. Pedersen, The Toledan Tables. A Review of the Manuscripts and the Textual Versions with an Edition, København, 2002, I, 109.
89va–94ra
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‘Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio corporum celestium mutatione… Scientia stellarum et rerum ex te et illis est. Astrologus non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Quod dixit Pto<lomeus>, ex te et illis, significat quod qui res futuras prenoscere desiderat — dabit ei quod significat ex bono sive malo.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (‘Mundanorum’ version) (C.3.1.3)
, v. 1-78. No glosses, except one added by a 14th-c. hand in the margin of v. 51 (f. 92rb), which summarises the last paragraph of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Dixerunt Ptholomeus et Hermes quod locus Lune… (B.5): ‘Notandum quod magister Abraham dicit quod iste gradus et gradus ei oppositus erit ascendens aut Lune locus, quod se sepe expertum dicit fuisse’. |
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