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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 346

Date:

s. XV^ex-XVIⁱⁿ.

Or.:

copied by Thomas Scalon (master of arts at King’s College, Cambridge, by 1503), who left his name in several places in the volume, including f. 12v, 18r, 96r, 97v, 124r, 153v and 157v. The three texts of astral magic f. 113r-119r, including the Ptolemaic section, were copied from MS London, SAL, 39, f. 19r-24r (see).

Paper, 168 f., one main hand.

Astrology, medicine, astrological medicine and astral magic in a collection of texts, short pieces, notes and tables difficult to collate. More substantial or recognisable items include: Regimen sanitatis (2v-12v); Ludus astronomorum (21r-29r); Prophatius Judeus, De aspectibus Lune ad alios planetas (39v-42v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (68r-91v); Messahallah, Liber interpretationum, attr. Roger Bacon (94v-96r and 98r-99v); ‘Ars certissima de latrocinio inveniendo. Si interrogatus fueris de latrocinio utrum adipissetur eum interrogator vel non…’ (100r-112v); Thebit Bencora, De imaginibus (113r-115v); Hermes/Enoch, Liber imaginum signorum, attr. Aristotle ‘Incipiunt imagines astronomie secundum Aristotelem. Extracta ab Aristotile in De secretis secretorum de assumptione medicine et sanguinis minutione…’ (116r-117v); Ptolemaica (118r-119r); Messahallah, Liber de intentionibus secretorum astronomie (119r-124r); Gergis, De significatione septem planetarum in domibus (124v-128r); Arnold of Villanova, Introductorium ad iudicia astrologie quantum pertinet ad medicinam (131r-141v); ‘Iudicium infirmitatis secundum questionem almutem. Dux questionis secundum Arabes dicitur almutem…’ (143r-153v).

Bibl. W. R. Black, A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of the Manuscripts Bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole, Oxford, 1845, 252-257; F. Klaassen, The Transformations of Magic. Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance, University Park, 2013, 48 and 50-51.

118r–⁠119r	‘Ptolomeus [title in upper margin]. <O>pus ymaginum secundum consilium Ptholomei est omnibus modis veracius in probatione quoniam eius effectus constitutus est super facies signorum et est certissimum quomodo Albumasar et Arabici et omnes orientales operabantur cum eo — mali vero sint cadentes ab ea et finitur. Expliciunt ymagines astronomice Ptolomei.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, De imaginibus super facies signorum (B.14) , with significant departure from the standard version (as in MS London, SAL, 39, f. 19r-24r, the model of the present MS). A few marginal notes by the scribe.

118r–⁠119r

‘Ptolomeus [title in upper margin]. <O>pus ymaginum secundum consilium Ptholomei est omnibus modis veracius in probatione quoniam eius effectus constitutus est super facies signorum et est certissimum quomodo Albumasar et Arabici et omnes orientales operabantur cum eo — mali vero sint cadentes ab ea et finitur. Expliciunt ymagines astronomice Ptolomei.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, De imaginibus super facies signorum (B.14)

, with significant departure from the standard version (as in MS London, SAL, 39, f. 19r-24r, the model of the present MS). A few marginal notes by the scribe.