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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Savile 41

Date:

s. XVI^ex-XVII.

Or.:

Oxford, collection of documents perhaps assembled by John Greaves (1602-1652), who copied the last part of the MS (f. 119-162).

Paper, 166 f., several hands.

Collection of texts, letters and notes in Latin and English, ranging from the late 16^th c. to the late 17^th c. and dealing with astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, physics and non-scientific topics. The Ptolemaica (2r-7r) form one gathering copied in a single hand. The MS also includes (23r-26v) an autograph letter from Joseph Scaliger to Henry Savile dated April 1595 concerning some geometrical problem (ed. Glucker).

Bibl. F. Madan, H. H. E. Craster, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, II.2, Oxford, 1937, 1111 (no. 6587); J. Glucker, ‘An Autograph Letter of Joseph Scaliger to Sir Henry Savile’, Scientiarum Historia 6 (1966), 214-224: 214-216 .

2r–⁠7r	‘Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου περὶ ὑποθέσεων τῶν πλανομένων. Hypotheses, ô Syre, coelestium motuum in iis quidem quas de mathematicis scripsimus commentariis, oratione explicare conati sumus — Stella tandem a boreo limite obliqui circelli in consequentia mundi partibus. Finis.’ = Ptolemy, De hypothesibus planetarum (tr. Matthias Bergius) (A.3.1) . A couple of corrections by the scribe f. 3v.

2r–⁠7r

‘Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου περὶ ὑποθέσεων τῶν πλανομένων. Hypotheses, ô Syre, coelestium motuum in iis quidem quas de mathematicis scripsimus commentariis, oratione explicare conati sumus — Stella tandem a boreo limite obliqui circelli in consequentia mundi partibus. Finis.’

= Ptolemy, De hypothesibus planetarum (tr. Matthias Bergius) (A.3.1)

. A couple of corrections by the scribe f. 3v.