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London, British Library, Sloane 1779

s. XVI² (for the Ptolemaic section, the rest of the MS dates from the 17^th c.).

Or.:

England.

Paper, 212 f. Collection of MSS and documents of various origins, of which f. 54-160 form one unit copied by a single hand. The folia of this section have been bound in complete disorder (see reconstitution below).

Ptolemaica (54r-159v). The other parts of the MS contain the end of the autobiography of Caspar Sibelius (1590-1658), of which the beginning occurs in MSS London, BL, Sloane 1718A and 1718B (1r-53v); letters, state papers and other documents in English (160r-212v).

Bibl. Catalogue of Sloane Manuscripts, V, s.l.n.d. (handwritten catalogue), 535-536.

54r–⁠159v	‘(54r) Cap. 4 libri 2. 1. Fixarum etiam stellarum singulis etc. Convenit, inquit, et haec adiungi, scilicet easdem regiones conciliari… (110r) Hactenus quidem percurrimus ea, quorum cognitionem, prognosticationes et praedictiones rerum particularium maxime requirere videntur, nam in primo libro ea docuit Ptolomeus — (155r) quae ab eo superius declarata sunt. Libri 3 caput 1. 1. Communium eventuum, id est accidentium generalium, id est cuiusvi (?) sunt ea quae accidunt — (68r) honestis et pudicis verbis, tecte et occulte describit.’ = Thomas Allen, 〈Expositio in Claudii Ptolomaei Pelusiensis de astrorum iudiciis〉 (C.2.27) . Book II, 110-113, 109, 122-123, 54-57, 85-88, 75-78, 128-131, 91-94, 114, 69-70, 115, 152-155r; III, 155r-155v, 101-104, 132, 83-84, 133-137, 124-127, 62-65, 120, 71-72, 121, 99, 146-151, 90, 140-141, 89, 156-159, 95-98, 73, 138-139, 74, 142-145, 105-108, 116, 118-119, 117, 58-61, 79-82, 66-68. F. 68v is blank and it is not clear where f. 100 belongs. No glosses.

54r–⁠159v

‘(54r) Cap. 4 libri 2. 1. Fixarum etiam stellarum singulis etc. Convenit, inquit, et haec adiungi, scilicet easdem regiones conciliari… (110r) Hactenus quidem percurrimus ea, quorum cognitionem, prognosticationes et praedictiones rerum particularium maxime requirere videntur, nam in primo libro ea docuit Ptolomeus — (155r) quae ab eo superius declarata sunt. Libri 3 caput 1. 1. Communium eventuum, id est accidentium generalium, id est cuiusvi (?) sunt ea quae accidunt — (68r) honestis et pudicis verbis, tecte et occulte describit.’

= Thomas Allen, 〈Expositio in Claudii Ptolomaei Pelusiensis de astrorum iudiciis〉 (C.2.27)

. Book II, 110-113, 109, 122-123, 54-57, 85-88, 75-78, 128-131, 91-94, 114, 69-70, 115, 152-155r; III, 155r-155v, 101-104, 132, 83-84, 133-137, 124-127, 62-65, 120, 71-72, 121, 99, 146-151, 90, 140-141, 89, 156-159, 95-98, 73, 138-139, 74, 142-145, 105-108, 116, 118-119, 117, 58-61, 79-82, 66-68. F. 68v is blank and it is not clear where f. 100 belongs. No glosses.