PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1856

Date:

s. XVIin (pp. 189-333 were copied in 1509-1511, cf. p. 213: ‘Finis corrector laudetur, 1509’; p. 320: ‘1510, die dominica post Francisci Seraphici’; p. 333: ‘Et hec sufficiant, 1511’; Markowski, 210 and 302, dates pp. 335-438 to c. 1533).

Or.:

probably the University of Cracow.

Prov.:

‘Nicolaus Sklarski Andreae Urzedoviensi d. d. anno 1562’ (inner back cover); ‘Andreas Burkovius ab Urzedow’ (inner front cover).

Paper, 446 pp., several hands.

Astrology: ‘Liber Iohannis Egidii in iudiciis astrorum abreviatus compendiose. Spera octava est stellata de multis stellis fixis…’ (1-154); anthology of elections ‘Electiones in quibusvis operibus. Hali libro 1, capitulo 34. Si volueris scire si empta habuerit.…’ (165-188); Girolamo Manfredi, Centiloquium de infirmis et medicis (189-213); Nicolaus de Dacia, Liber anaglipharum astronomie, Book V (215-273); Tractatus de scientia nativitatum ‘Canon primus ostendens invenire gradum ascendentem alicuius nativitatis humane…’ (279-320), including Ptolemaica (279-280) as opening chapter; Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on a nativity of 6 April 1445 (321-333); ‘Omnium hominum qui nascuntur quadrupliciter subdemus divisionem…’ (335-438). Blank: 155-164, 214, 274-278, 334, 439-446.

Bibl. W. Wisłocki, Katalog rękopisόw Biblijoteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, I, Krakόw, 1877, 442; G. Rosińska, Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow. A Census of Manuscript Sources (xivth-xvith Centuries), Wrocław-Warszawa, 1984, 554 (index); M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 302.

279–⁠280

‘Ad inveniendum gradum ascendentem tempore nativitatis qui potest inveniri per animodar… Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Pth<olomei> 51 rectificare. Sit tempus datum — illum tota figura rectificanda est in tempore.’