PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 192

Date:

s. XIV2.

Or.:

France (Pächt/Alexander) or southern Iberian peninsula (King); notes in Portuguese f. 7v.

Prov.:

Parchment, 124 f., one main hand copied f. 1r-118r, decorated initials.

Comput, arithmetic and astronomy: astronomical calendar (1r-6r); Tabula Gerlandi (6v-7v), with canons (8ra-9ra); Balduinus de Mardochio or Marrochio, Compotus manualis (9ra-18ra); Ricardus Anglicus (?), Algorismus minutiarum (18rb-22va); ‘Pro astrolabio faciendo primo fac circulum Capricorni…’ (22va-23vb); Sacrobosco, Algorismus (24ra-30rb); Sacrobosco, De sphera (30va-43ra); Sacrobosco, Computus (43ra-67ra); Robertus Anglicus, Quadrans vetus (67ra-73vb), with solar tables 1296-1299 (74r-76r); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii (76va-95vb); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (95vb-103rb); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (103rb-106vb); Ptolemaica (106vb-107vb); Prophatius Judeus, Quadrans novus (108ra-118rb); fainted notes (118v); algorismus, beginning gone (119r-122r); geometrical figures (122v-123r); computus tables (123v-124v).

Bibl. A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, IV: Codices viri admodum reverend Thomae Tanneri, S.T.P. episcopi Asaphensis complectens, Oxford, 1860, 630-632; O. Pächt, J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I: German, Dutch, Flemish, French and Spanish Schools, Oxford, 1966, 49 (no. 629); D. A. King, The Ciphers of the Monks. A Forgotten Number-Notation of the Middle Ages, Stuttgart, 2001, 129-130.

106vb–⁠107vb

‘Incipit liber Thebit Bencorath de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui describitur super duos polos orbis — Gardus vero gressus stelle est gradus cum quo mediatur celum…’

= Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1)

, incomplete, the text breaks off after the first sentence of §14 in Carmody’s edition and the four following lines have been erased. A couple of corrections by the scribe and a few marginal notes by another hand.