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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Prague, Národní Knihovna České Republiky, VIII.G.27 (1609)

Date:

s. XV.

Or.:

Bohemia (cf. f. 107r).

Paper, I+146 f. (new foliation in pencil, upper right corner), one main hand (except for f. 48-59 and 108-134).

Medicine, astrology and geometry: table of contents, 15th c. (Iv); Johannitius, Isagoge (1r-7r); table: ‘Longus. Longus pulsus qui in longum plus extenditur…’ (7v-8v); Philaretus, De pulsibus (9r-10v); Hippocrates, Aphorismi (11r-18v); Hippocrates, Prognostica (19r-24bisr); Johannes Damascenus, Aphorismi (25r-29r); Hippocrates, De regimine acutarum (29r-36v); Recommendatio astronomie ‘Astronomia est scientia ad sciendum Deum altissimum…’ (37r-40v); Giles of Corbeil, De urinis (41r-46v); notes on the colour of urine (46v-47r); description of illnesses ‘Alopicia: Eiusdem sunt speciei…’ (48r-59v); Ptolemaica (60r-72v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (73r-107r); ‘Isti libri non habentur in Boemia: Primum Planispherium Ptholomei…’ (107r); ‘In Christi nomine amen. Vidimus nonnulos artium scolares liberalium valentissimos… Explicit tractatus de radiorum proiectionibus et directionibus significatorum. Amen’ (108r-134v); Euclid, Elementa, ed. Campanus of Novara, Books I-VI (135r-145v). Blank: Ir, 10bis, 24bisv, 47v, 72bis, 107v, 146.

Bibl. J. Truhlář, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui in C.R. Bibliotheca Publica atque Universitatis Pragensis asservantur, I, Prague, 1905, 596-597; L. Thorndike, ‘Some Little Known Astronomical and Mathematical Manuscripts’, Osiris 8 (1948), 41-72: 59-60; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 270 (‘Prague 1610’ by mistake).

60r–⁠72v

‘Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam tib (!) scripsi, Yesure, libros de hoc quod operantur stelle in hoc seculo… Scientia stellarum ex te et ex illis est. Astrologus enim non debet dicere rem specialiter sed universaliter… Mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud mutatio corporum supercelestium mutatione — de eodem climate, id est in libro Metheorum et eiis (?). Explicit Centiloquium Ptholomei etc.’

= Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1)

, with all propositions also given in the ‘Mundanorum’ version (C.3.1.3). The commentary is omitted, except in v. 2-3. No glosses, but the scribe added v. 7, which he had omitted in loco, in the lower margin of f. 61r.