Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7016A
s. XV.
Or.:France (several texts are in French).
Prov.:Colbert; library of the kings of France in 1732.
Paper, 171 f., one main hand difficult to read.
Practitioner’s handbook mainly devoted to medicine, except Ptolemaica (92r-94v and 113r) and a section on astrology and astral magic (144r-152r), including Messahallah, Epistola de rebus eclipsium (144r-145v); ‘Notandum est quod quando fit eclipsis Solis quod fortunium vel infortunium…’ (145v-146r); ‘De libro Zaelis Israelite scito quod significatrix id est Luna…’ (146r, this excerpt is not related to Zael’s Quinquaginta precepta); Leopold of Austria, De astrorum scientia, excerpt from Book V (146r-148r); Hermes/Enoch, Liber imaginum signorum (148r-149v); ‘Figura Arietis de argento vel auro fiat Sole intrante in Ariete…’ (150r-151r); Figure septem planetarum ‘Antiqui philosophi sapientes istis 7 figuris…’ (151r-152r).
Bibl. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, III: Cod. Latini 4794-7225, Paris, 1744, 303-304; D. Juste, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Latinorum, II: Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France à Paris, Paris, 2015, 71-72.
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92r–94v, 113r
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‘Ad inveniendum signum nativitatis cuiuslibet hominis litteras computa… [preceded by three lines of an encrypted text]. Inferiora corpora reguntur a superioribus… Aries primum signum. Natus sub Ariete a medio Martii usque ad medium Aprilis erit magne industrie — (113r) (Natus sub Pisce) fideliter vivent tam viri quam mulieres.’ = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Liber de nativitatibus hominum (B.11)
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