Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3642
s. XIII.
Parchment, 123 f., several hands, one of which copied f. 7-49. Several folia are missing between f. 6-7 and between f. 12-13.
Astronomy, mathematics, computus, astrology and various: table of contents, 13th c. (1ra-2va); ‘De natura terre et lapidum quorumdam. Descriptis proprietatibus terre et parcium eius…’, end gone (3ra-6vb); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere, last page with tables only (7r); Ptolemaica (7va-9rb); Thebit Bencora, De figura sectore, anonymous tr. (9rb-12ra); Jordanus de Nemore, Elementa super demonstrationem ponderum, end gone (12ra-12vb); Compotus Petri, beginning gone (13ra-49va); ‘Incipiunt questiones Boicii. Prima vero litteralis protraccio… Expliciunt questiones Boycii de naturis rerum’ (50ra-54rb); Hermann of Reichenau, De mensura astrolabii (55ra-56vb); De utilitatibus astrolabii, attr. Ptolemy ‘Tractatus Tholomei de astrolapsu’ (56vb-61ra); Berengarius, De horologio viatorum (61ra-63rb); Alchandreana ‘De septem planetis. Summum planetarum Saturnus est, natura gelidum…’ (63rb-64vb) and other astronomical and astrological chapters (65ra-69ra); William of Conches, Philosophia (69va-80va); astronomical notes (81r-81v); Algorismi [al-Khwārizmī], astronomical tables, incomplete (82ra-87r); astronomical diagrams (88r-90r); ‘De arbore consanguinitatis. Ad arborem consanguinitatis docendam et ad intelligendam…’ (90va-95ra); excerpts (95rb-95v); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Opus numerorum (96ra-97vb and 105rb); Jordanus de Nemore (?), Tractatus minutiarum (98ra-99ra); Jordanus de Nemore, De numeris datis (99ra-105ra); Liber Alchorismi ‘Quisquis in quatuor matheseos disciplinis…’ (105va-113vb), with appendix ‘Hic incipiunt regule et primus de agregatione. Omnis numeris talis disposicione…’ (113vb-118ra); Somniale Danielis (118ra-118va); Aristotle, Physica, end of Book VI (118va-121rb); excerpts from Boethius, Cicero, Seneca (122r-123vb). Blank: 54v, 87v, 121v. According to the table of contents f. 1ra-2va, the MS originally contained more texts, including three texts before f. 7, cf. ‘In isto volumine libri subscripti continentur… Liber primus Arsamidis philosophi de mensura circulorum [= Archimedes’s De mensura circuli] … Liber secundus astrolabium Rob<erti> Capitis Grossi… Liber tertius de planisperio sive de alzagara Tholomei [= Ptolemy’s Planispherium] … Incipit liber 1 Tebith cum tabulis…’, and three texts between f. 12 and 13, cf. ‘Incipit exce<r>ptum de libro Orloth de ponderibus. Incipit liber Euclidis de ponderibus [= Pseudo-Euclid’s De ponderoso et levi?] … Divinationes Petri. Compotus Petri…’.
Bibl. A. Molinier, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Mazarine, III, Paris, 1890, 151-152; N. Bubnov, Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae opera mathematica (972-1003), Berlin, 1899,
7va–9rb
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‘Liber quem edidit Thebit filius Core de hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti. Equator diei est circulus maior qui discribatur super duos polos orbis — propinqui oppositioni erunt retrogradi. Expletus liber Thebit filii Core de hiis qui (!) indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti.’ = Thebit Bencora, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (C.1.1)
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