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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 2703

Date:

s. XVex (1492-1493, cf. f. 66r, 100v, 128r, 169v; 1493 for the Ptolemaic section, which was copied immediately after Albertus de Brudzewo’s Commentariolum, whose copy is dated 1493 f. 169v).

Or.:

personal notebook of ‘Michael Ruszoczky’ or ‘Michael de Ruszocycze’ (Michael de Russocice alias Michał z Russocic in Rosińska), then student at the University of Cracow (cf. f. 100v: ‘Finitus feria quarta proxima ante nativitatem magis gloriose Marie anno domini 1492 in studio Crac<oviensi>’; f. 153r: ‘Et sic est finis huius operis in studio alme universitatis Crac<oviensis>, burse Ierusalem per me Michaelem Ruszoczky, filium generosi Iohannis Ruszoczky, dapiferum Lancicie…’; f. 169v: ‘Explicit Comentariolum super Theoricas novas Georgii Purbacii in studio generali Crac<oviensi> per magistrum Albertum de Brudzewo subtiliter corrogatum, scriptumque per me Michaelem de Ruszocycze in bursa Ierusalem, finitum in vigilia circumcizionis domini anno domini 1493. Finis’).

Paper, 175 f., one main hand, difficult to read. Texts are heavily glossed.

Astronomy, astrology, grammar, philosophy and geography: Johannes de Glogovia, comm. on Sacrobosco’s De sphera, beginning only (1r-1v); ‘Item libri maiores sunt quatuor. Primus est in theologia et est Biblia. Secundus in iure canonico et est decretum. Tertius in astronomia, ut Ptolomeus in sapientiis Almagesti. Quartus in medicinis…’ (1va-1vb); Johannes de Erfordia, Computus chirometralis (2r-22v); astrological and astronomical notes and diagrams (23v-24v); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book IV (25r-29v); ‘Tractatulus magistri Richardi de plantatione arborum fructiferarum et vinearum unde sex sunt modi plantationis…’ (30r-33v); ‘Modus inveniendi tempus electum pro sanguinis minutione…’ (33v-34r); ‘Astronomia secundum intentionem Ptolomei primo Quadripartiti capitulo primo diffinitur: Est scientia qua duorum luminarium et quinque planetarum…’ (34r-36rb); text of grammar (37r-44r); text of philosophy, attr. Egidius de Parma (44r-58v); notes ‘In prima parte huius docetur de cantu, voce et clave…’ (59r); Petrus Gaszowiec, Computus novus (59v-65v); notes ‘Isidorus libro tertio: Astronomia de (!) est astrorum lex…’ (65v); ‘In Dionisii Tessalonicensis geographiam supleciones ex Ptolomeo, Strabone, Plinio, Paulo Orosio, Pomponio Mella, Petro Cameracensi ceterisque huius artis professoribus incipiunt feliciter anno domini 1492. Cosmographia a cosmos, quod significat mundus, et graphia descriptio…’, abrupt end (66r-67v); Giovanni Bianchini, tables of houses (68r-73v) and ‘Tabula equationum dierum cum noctibus’ (74r-74v); Johannes de Glogovia, Tractatus de defensione astrologie (75r-77v, ed. Malewicz, 167-175); Johannes de Glogovia, Tractatus de 48 imaginibus celestibus (77v-100v); Dionysius Periegetes, Descriptio orbis terrarum (101r-128r); Johannes de Glogovia, Introductorium astronomie in ephemerides (128v-153r); ‘Tabule duodecim domorum orizontalium gratia allevationis per magistrum Albertum de Brudzivo ex tabulis magistri Iohannis de Regio Monte…’ (153v); Albertus de Brudzewo, Commentariolum super Theoricas novas Georgii Purbachii (154r-169v); Ptolemaica (169v-175r); astrological notes ‘Triplex est mora nati in utero…’ (175va-175vb). Blank: 22v-23r, 36v, 102v.

Bibl. W. Wisłocki, Katalog rękopisόw Biblijoteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, II, Krakόw, 1881, 636-637; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 556 (index); M. H. Malewicz, ‘Joannis de Glogovia “Persuasio brevis quomodo astrologiae studium religioni christianiae non est adversum”’, Studia Mediewistyczne 22 (1985), 153-175: 163-165; M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 309; Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 420; M. Malpangotto, Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie, Paris, 2020, 668.

169v–⁠175r

‘Verbum Ptolomei LVII est de medelis unde dum voluerit medicus… (174r) Advertendum ergo est quod in prenosticatione eclipsis quomodo (?) iuxta viam Ptolomei principaliter sunt investiganda. Primum est determinare in qua provincia vel civitate accident ille actus… Capitulum in quibus terris et provinciis continget efectus eclipsium. Iuxta intentionem Ptolomei efectus eclipsium trans… (?) in civitate concordante cum signo in quo est eclipsis — tales apparebunt.’