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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1439

Date:

s. XV^ex (a good deal of the MS at least was copied in 1487-1488, with sections and notes added until at least 1493, cf. e.g. f. 208r: ‘eclipsis Solis anno 1493 currente’).

Or.:

personal notebook of Johannes Virdung of Hassfurt, who copied most of the volume when he was a student at the University of Cracow (1484-1488), with additions at the University of Leipzig (1488-1492) and at the University of Heidelberg (1492-), cf. f. 1r: ‘Liber magistri Ioannis Virdung de Hasfurt’; f. 8r: ‘Finiti sunt canones eclipsium anno Christi 1487 per me bacc<alarium> Iohannem de Hasfurth feria secunda post festum Bartholomeii in alma universitate Cracoviensi’; f. 39r: ‘Finiti sunt canones per me bacc<alarium> Ioannem de Hasfurt in alma universitate Cracoviensi anno salutis nostre 1487’; f. 49v: ‘Finitus est tractatus super pronosticon figure sequentis per me bacc<alarium> Iohannem de Hasfurt, compositusque per magistrum Alberum de Brudzewo anno 1487 Sabbatho ante festum Bartholomeii in alma universitate Cracoviensi’; f. 66r: ‘… collecti … per bacc<alarium> Iohannem Germanum de Hasfurt anno salutis 1487 in alma universitate Cracoviensi ex canonibus magistri Iohannis de Monte Regio’; f. 285r: ‘per me … (?) Io<hannem> de Hasfurt anno salutis Christi 1488 in studio Cracoviensi’. Virdung also left autobiographical and historical notes f. 8r, 39r, 66r, 266r, 331v-335r and 350v (partly edited by Thorndike).

Prov.:

Heidelberg, Bibliotheca Palatina; Vatican library in 1623.

Paper, 351 f., one main hand (Johannes Virdung), except for f. 67r-75r, 105^bis, 148r-152r and 211r-239r.

Astronomy and astrology: Peurbach, Canones eclipsium Solis et Lune ‘Tempus coniunctionis medie vel oppositionis luminarium…’ (1r-8r); computus for the year 1488 released by the University of Cracow ‘Pro laude regis eterni…’ (8v); ‘Sequuntur tempora fleubothomie electa secundum verum motum Lune in signis zodiaci…’, incomplete (9v-11r); drawing of an astrolabe (11v); notes ‘Armille sic ordinantur…’ (12r); Regiomontanus, Tabule directionum, canons (13r-39r); Figure ‘Radiationes secundum Blankinum [Giovanni Bianchini] in circulo inclinato super eclipticam. Omnis stella radiationes suas extendit…’ (39v); Ptolemaica (40r-40^bisv); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on a nativity of 6 April 1445 (41r-49v); Albertus de Brudzewo (?), Canones concernentes nativitatem nati (50r-66r); horoscope of Johannes Virdung with notes (66v); horologium ‘Utilitates huius compendii. Pro compositione instrumenti per quod facit horam noctis tempore…’ (67r-75r); ‘Compositurus horalogium noctis, accipe laminam argenteam…’ (75v-76r); ‘Volens conficere baculum Iacob…’ (76r); ‘Sequuntur regule de multiplicatione. Prima: Si multiplicas gradus per gradus…’ (76v-77r); names of the months in various languages (77v-78r); Johannes de Glogovia, comm. on Sacrobosco’s De sphera (78v-102v); kalendarium 1487-1551 with canons (103r-121v), in which a prognostication for 1495, copied by another hand, has been inserted (105^bisr-105^bisv); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book II (122r-151r), including Ptolemaica (127r-127v) inserted, together with other chapters of astrometeorology, between Differentie 3 and 4; astrometeorology ‘Partitiones alie quas astrologi in suis iudiciis attendunt. Inquit autor summe Anglicane et Yafar in tractatu de ymbribus…’ (151r-152r); Zael, De electionibus, beginning only (152v); ‘Quadratus et oppositionis aspectus Saturni et Martis faciunt…’ (153r); ‘Ab horis temporalibus sciendum quando erit accidens eclipsis…’ (153v-154v); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book IV (155r-160r); ‘Item mundi huius inferioris machina virtuti celorum et stellarum est subdita…’ (160v-163r); elections ‘Pro balneo… Tempora electa fleubotomie in ordine ad complexiones hominum…’ (163r-164v); Johannes de Glogovia, Canones Tabularum resolutarum (165r-194r); Astronomia Ypocratis (194v-198r); Guido Bonatti, Liber introductorius ad iudicia stellarum, excerpt ‘Dies cretica est quando natura…’ (198r-200r); astrometeorology ‘Aries facit calorem temperatum…’ (202v-203r); Bernard of Gordon, Tractatulus de cautelis medicorum (200v-202r); list of mathematical books at the university and the Church of the Holy Spirit of Heidelberg in 1492 (203v); ‘Ponam igitur modum quomodo procedendum est in practica per mansiones Lune. Quotiens volueris habere cognitionem de aeris mutatione…’ (204v-207r); ‘Sciendum pro conficiendo tabulas minutionum primo requiritur cognitio ipsius almanach…’ (207v-208r); ‘Significationes applicationum planetarum ad inficem (!). Coniunctio Saturni et Iovis…’ (208v); ‘Modus compositionis instrumenti directorii. Fiat circulus magne quantitatis…’ (209r-209v); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book I (211v-239v); ‘De compositione instrumenti subtilissimi motuum planetarum. Ut in compositione nostri instrumenti progrediamur…’ (239v-244r); notes ‘De tempore quo incipient effectus eclipsis…’ (245v); ‘Doctrina inveniendi puncta eclipsis Solis cum tabulis…’ (246r-247v); ‘Hoc instrumentum habet duas partes sive facies, prima de figura eclipsis…’ (248r-257v); ‘Pro horalogiorum compositione primo requiritur…’ (258v-259v); judgement on a nativity of 20 December 1448 in Prague (260r-265r); astrological notes (265v-266r); ‘Sequitur instrumentum de veris coniunctionibus et oppositionibus luminarium…’ (266r-266v); ‘Compositio hec que artis computistice subiacet…’ (268r-277r); ‘Item si vis scire id quod est augendum ad viam incipere…’ (277v); geographical coordinates of cities (278r); Cristannus de Prachaticz, Compositio astrolabii (279r-285r); ‘Sequitur de profectionibus secundum Guidonem Bonatum… De directionibus secundum Guidonem Bonatum…’ (285v-289v); ‘Sciendum quod regnum Bohemie incepit anno domini 1086 post coniunctionem magnam…’ (290r-290v); ‘Ad astrolabium. Lineas actuales 12 domus celi dividentes more Campani et Gazuli…’ (290v-292r); added table of contents of the following text (292v); Cristannus de Prachaticz, Usus astrolabii (293r-304v); ‘Horam integri horalogii sic invenies…’ (304v); 38 horoscopes: syzygies of 1487 and historical events linked to great conjunctions (305r-308r); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on the solar eclipse of 1487 (308v-313v); judgement on the nativity of Johannes Mangolt, born on 17 October 1468 (308^bisr-308^terv); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on the great conjunction of 1484 (314r-316v); note ‘Item diligenter nota. Et memoria quod signum ascendentis tempore inceptionis alicuius regni…’ (316v); mundane astrology ‘De inventione orbis magni. Orbem magnum quotus sit taliter invenies…’ (317r-320r); eclipse tables (320v-322ra); ‘Autor summe Anglicane distinctione octava…’ (322rb); ‘Pro diversitate que habetur inter antiquos ex una et altera partibus… De introitu Solis in Arietem…’ (322v-323r); Albertus de Brudzewo, prognostication for 1487 (323v-330v); table of conjunctions 1487-1527 (331r); Johannes Virdung, autobiographical notes (331v-335r); Petrus Gaszowiec, De mutatione aeris (336r-344r); Hermes, Liber de stellis beibeniis (344v-345v); Liber runarum (346r-349r); table of computus (?) April-March (349v-350r); Johannes Virdung, autobiographical notes (350v). Blank: 9r, 12v, 204r, 210, 244v-245r, 256^bisv, 258r, 267, 335v.

Bibl. Inventarium manuscriptorum Latinorum Bibliothecae Palatinae (handwritten catalogue), 505-506; L. Thorndike, ‘Another Virdung Manuscript’, Isis 34 (1943), 291-293; E. Poulle, ‘Activité astronomique à Cracovie au XVe siècle’, in Actes du XIe congrès international d’histoire des sciences (Varsovie-Cracovie, 1965), Wrocław, 1968, III, 45-50 (reprinted in E. Poulle Astronomie planétaire au Moyen Age latin, Aldershot, 1996, XIV); P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, I, London-Leiden, 1977, 394; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xiv^th-xvi^th Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 557 (index); M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 288-289; L. Schuba, Die Quadriviums-Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek, Wiesbaden, 1992, 236-244; B. Láng, Unlocked Books. Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe, University Park [Pennsylvania], 2008, 327-328.

40r–⁠40^bisv	‘Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptholomei 51 rectificare. Sit tempus datum geniture — (40v) figura celi constituatur que erit finaliter rectificata.’ = Albertus de Brudzewo (?), Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptolomei 51 rectificare (C.3.17) . Substantial glosses by the scribe (Johannes Virdung), which are continued over an added sheet of paper (f. 40^bisr-40^bisv) and discuss a nativity of 1510. Some of the glosses are perhaps by another hand.
127r–⁠127v	‘Nature particulares signorum et facierum earum quas ponit Ptho<lomeus> secundo Quadripartiti, c<apitulo> 11, verificate per venerabilem egregiumque virum magistrum Petrum Gaschowicz me<dicine> doc<torem>. Totum signum Arietis facit tonitrua et relampagos — (Pisces) faciens grandinem <de natura> Saturni’ (in the form of a table). = Petrus Gaszowiec, Tabula de naturis particularibus signorum et facierum (C.2.7) . No glosses. Followed by two added notes: ‘Item, octava sphera a tempore Ptholomey usque huc mota est 19 gradus et quasi per duas facies recessit octava sphera a nona’ and ‘Nature signorum sunt duplices — ista natura loquetur presens tabula.

40r–⁠40^bisv

‘Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptholomei 51 rectificare. Sit tempus datum geniture — (40v) figura celi constituatur que erit finaliter rectificata.’

= Albertus de Brudzewo (?), Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptolomei 51 rectificare (C.3.17)

. Substantial glosses by the scribe (Johannes Virdung), which are continued over an added sheet of paper (f. 40^bisr-40^bisv) and discuss a nativity of 1510. Some of the glosses are perhaps by another hand.

127r–⁠127v

‘Nature particulares signorum et facierum earum quas ponit Ptho<lomeus> secundo Quadripartiti, c<apitulo> 11, verificate per venerabilem egregiumque virum magistrum Petrum Gaschowicz me<dicine> doc<torem>. Totum signum Arietis facit tonitrua et relampagos — (Pisces) faciens grandinem <de natura> Saturni’ (in the form of a table).

= Petrus Gaszowiec, Tabula de naturis particularibus signorum et facierum (C.2.7)

. No glosses. Followed by two added notes: ‘Item, octava sphera a tempore Ptholomey usque huc mota est 19 gradus et quasi per duas facies recessit octava sphera a nona’ and ‘Nature signorum sunt duplices — ista natura loquetur presens tabula.