PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7350

s. XVIin (perhaps c. 1510, cf. date 9 June 1510 written by the scribe in the upper margin of f. 136r).

Or.:

the MS preserves the astronomical and astrological teaching delivered at the University of Cracow in the late 15th c. (numerous mentions of the years 1483-1488 throughout) and derives at least partly from a MS of Johannes Virdung of Hassfurt (cf. f. 16r: ‘… excripse ex tabulis magistri Iohannis de Asfur…’, f. 125v: ‘… ex libro magistri Iohannis de Hasfurt’, f. 219v: ‘… hec de revolutione nativitatis scripsit magister Iohannes de Asfurt manuscriptum’). The MS is indeed very close in content to Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 1439 (see), a MS copied in Cracow by Johannes Virdung mainly in 1487-1488, even though it does not seem to have been copied on it.

Prov.:

Colbert; library of the kings of France in 1732.

Paper, 339 f., a single hand.

Astronomy and astrology mainly, in a collection of texts, excerpts and notes poorly distinguished from one another and in a hand sloppy and difficult to read. Most recognisable items include: table De electionibus secundum cursum Lune per XII signa (70v-71r); Ptolemaica (71v-73v); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book II (74r-96r); ‘Partitiones alie quas astrologi in suis iudiciis attendunt. Inquit autor summe Anglicane et Iafar in tractatu de imbribus…’ (96r-98r); Ptolemaica (98r-98v); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on a nativity of 6 April 1445 (99r-108v); Albertus de Brudzewo (?), Canones concernentes nativitatem nati (108v-125v); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on the solar eclipse of 1487 (126v-133v); Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on the great conjunction of 1484 (134r-137v); Albertus de Brudzewo, prognostication for 1487 (137v-149v); horoscopes for 1487-1488 (150r-153r); Petrus Gaszowiec, De mutatione aeris (153v-157v); Cristannus de Prachaticz, Compositio astrolabii (169v-184v); judgement on a nativity of 20 December 1448 in Prague (184v-193r); Johannes de Glogovia, Summa astrologie, Book IV (193v-195v); Albertus de Brudzewo, Commentariolum super Theoricas novas Georgii Purbachii, excerpts (220r-223v), with a comm. composed in 1491 (224r-235v); Bartholomeus de Frizo, astrological judgement on the advent of the antichrist in 1503 (235v-236v); ‘Instrumentum coniunctionum et oppositionum. Pro compositione instrumentum coniunctionum et oppositionum…’ (248v-255r); ‘Ut in compositione nostri instrumenti progrediamur…’ (255v-263v); Ptolemaica (263v-264v); notes ‘Iudicia astronomica non necessitant…’ (264v); ‘Et (?) cum Albumasar (?) loco allegato (?) quod dominus (?) orbis est planeta ad quem pervenit…’ (265r-277r).

Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, IV: Cod. Latini 7226-8822, Paris, 1744, 345; 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); G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 556 (index); M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 317-318; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 128-130.

71v–⁠73v

‘Astrologus non debet dicere rem universaliter sed specialiter, ut qui considerat — qui fuerit in angulo et duo termini Lune natura rei cum (?) Haly.’

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

, v. 1-4, 8-10, 12, 14, 19-23, 27, 29, 33, 37-39, 41, 43-44, 46, 48, 51-53, 56-57, 59-61, 71-72, 74, 86, 80, 91-92, 94, 97 and 90, mostly without Haly’s commentary and propositions sometimes in a summarised form. No glosses. ‘Centiloquium Ptolomei’ at the bottom of f. 72r.

98r–⁠98v

‘Est alius modus iuxta verbum 34. Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptolomei 51 rectificare. Sit tempus datum geniture — figura celi constituatur que erit finaliter rectificata.’

263v–⁠264v

‘Nature particulares signorum et facierum earum quas ponit Ptolomeus secundo Quadripartiti, c<apitulo> 11, verificate per magistrum Petrum Gaschowicz medicine doctorem. 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: ‘Octava spera a tempore Ptolomei usque huc mota est 19 gradus et quasi per 2 facies recessit octava spera a nona’.