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Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, G. 70 sup.

Date:

s. XIV (for f. 65-121; f. 1-16 were copied in 1358, cf. f. 4ra; f. 17-64 are older, probably from the 13^th c.).

Prov.:

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), whose library was purchased by the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1608-1609.

Parchment, 121 f., composite MS made of three parts: f. 1-16, 17-64 and 65-121.

Miscellanea: questions on Aristotle’s De longitudine et brevitate vite ‘Circha librum de longitudine et brevitate vite sit primus questio utrum eidem conhabitare sint cause longe vite…’ (1ra-4ra) and De morte et vita ‘Circha librum de morte et vita primo queritur utrum calidum sit…’ (4ra-13rb); comm. on Pseudo-Aristotle’s Physiognomia ‘Quoniam autem anime sequuntur corpora…’ (13rb-16ra); Macrobius, Commentarii in somnium Scipionis (17ra-62rb); Ptolemaica (65ra-121ra). Blank: 16v, 62v-64v, 121v.

Bibl. P. Revelli, I codici Ambrosiani di contenuto geografico, Milano, 1929, 84 (no. 198); A. Rivolta, Catalogo dei codici Pinelliani dell’Ambrosiana, Milano, 1933, 20-21 (no. 37); L. Thorndike, ‘Notes upon Some Medieval Astronomical, Astrological and Mathematical Manuscripts at Florence, Milan, Bologna and Venice’, Isis 50 (1959), 33-50: 40-42; A. L. Gabriel, A Summary Catalogue of Microfilms of One Thousand Scientific Manuscripts in the Ambrosiana Library, Milan, Notre Dame, 1968, 235 (no. 554); J. Agrimi, Tecnica e scienza nella cultura medievale. Inventario dei manoscritti relativi alla scienza e alla tecnica medievale (secc. XI-XV). Biblioteche di Lombardia, Firenze, 1976, 91 (no. CXI); Inventario Ceruti dei manoscritti della Biblioteca Ambrosiana, ed. A. Paredi, III, Trezzano, 1977, 565; P. Pizzamiglio, Gerardo da Cremona nella tradizione amanuenze e tipografica, Cremona, 1988, 27-28.

65ra–⁠121ra	‘<S>cientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est declaratio eius. Explicit tractatus nonus et ultimus huius libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’ = Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2) . Preface, 65ra-66ra; I, 66ra-72vb; II, 72vb-80va; III, 80va-83va; IV, 83va-90rb; V, 90rb-100rb; VI, 100rb-108va; VII, 108va-115rb; VIII, 115rb-117vb; IX, 117vb-121ra. A few short marginal notes by the scribe.

65ra–⁠121ra

‘<S>cientia species habet quarum melior post scientiam — sunt digniores ut evanescant et destruantur. Completa est declaratio eius. Explicit tractatus nonus et ultimus huius libri. Hunc librum transtulit in Toleto magister Girardus Cremonensis de Arabico in Latinum.’

= Geber, Liber super Almagesti (C.1.2)

. Preface, 65ra-66ra; I, 66ra-72vb; II, 72vb-80va; III, 80va-83va; IV, 83va-90rb; V, 90rb-100rb; VI, 100rb-108va; VII, 108va-115rb; VIII, 115rb-117vb; IX, 117vb-121ra. A few short marginal notes by the scribe.