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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Savile 99

Date:

s. XVII².

Or.:

Oxford, the MS was copied on MS Oxford, SJC, 37 (see).

Prov.:

Charles Bernard (d. 1710), surgeon, whose library was sold on 22 March 1711; Stephen Peter Rigaud, Savilian professor at Oxford from 1810 to 1839 (cf. f. 1r: ‘S. P. Rigaud, April 29, 1824’); acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1884.

Paper, 186 f., a single neat hand.

Ptolemaica (single text), except for Valentin Nabod’s horoscope (185v) – with the wrong date 14 February 1527 – and Kenelm Digby’s letter to John Barkham on 17 July 1640 (186r), as in MS Oxford, SJC, 37 (see). F. 1r-1v contains Rigaud’s biographical notes about Valentin Nabod. Blank: 2-7, 186v.

Bibl. F. Madan, H. H. E. Craster, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, V, Oxford, 1905, 191-192 (no. 26167).

8r–⁠185r	‘Prooemium deest. Quod futurorum per astronomiam praecognitio sit quaedam ars et quousque progrediatur. Cap. I. Facile patescit, breviterque perspicuum fieri potest omnibus quod ex aetherea et externa natura vis quaedam diffundatur — Itaque hic et in hoc termino noster quoque interpretandi commentandique labor finem iam accipiat.’ = Valentin Nabod, In Claudii Ptolemaei Quadripartitae constructionis apotelesmata commentarius novus et eiusdem conversio nova (C.2.30) . Corrections by the scribe.

8r–⁠185r

‘Prooemium deest. Quod futurorum per astronomiam praecognitio sit quaedam ars et quousque progrediatur. Cap. I. Facile patescit, breviterque perspicuum fieri potest omnibus quod ex aetherea et externa natura vis quaedam diffundatur — Itaque hic et in hoc termino noster quoque interpretandi commentandique labor finem iam accipiat.’

= Valentin Nabod, In Claudii Ptolemaei Quadripartitae constructionis apotelesmata commentarius novus et eiusdem conversio nova (C.2.30)

. Corrections by the scribe.