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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Katowice, Biblioteka Śląska, R 51.II

Date:

s. XVIin (f. 85-106 and 236r-249v copied in 1524, cf. f. 106v and 249v).

Or.:

personal notebook of one Leopold Liepphart or Liepharth, cf. f. 106v: ‘Leopoldi Liepphart Lombardie artis … (?) in Chorinthia ex Austriaca natione ego sum. 1524’; f. 236r: ‘… ego Leopoldus Liepharth incipio…’, f. 249v: ‘Finit per Leopoldum Liepphart in die sancti Vincenti anno etc. 1524 in Reirsach (?)’.

Paper, 249 f., one main hand, painted initial f. 2r.

Astrology, astronomy and alchemy: Tractatus de scientia nativitatum ‘Canon primus ostendens invenire gradum ascendentem alicuius nativitatis humane…’ (2r-32v), including Ptolemaica (2r-3r) as opening chapter; Albertus de Brudzewo, judgement on a nativity of 6 April 1445 (35r-44r); tables: ‘Tabula ad sciendum per Lunam quanta est mora creature (?)’ (47r-50r); astronomical tables (51r-61r); ‘Sequitur Elucidarius secreti omnium philosophorum et expositio verborum ipsorum quibus celaverunt et obscuraverunt dictum secretum ipsorum. Quia in paucis verbis huius doctrine…’ (62r-64v) and other alchemical texts (65r-84v); table: influence of the 12 signs on the weather (85v); Johannes de Glogovia, Introductorium astronomie in ephemerides (86r-106v); astrological tables and notes on essential doctrines (107r-111v); ‘Regule generales de tempore pluvioso et humido…’ (111v-112r); ‘Canones pro minutionibus faciendis…’ (112r-114r); ‘Secuntur experimenta astrologica. Saturnus stationarius statione secunda fere per totum tempus statione nebulas notabilissime…’ (116r-129r); ‘Omnis planeta sub luce Solis virtute caret. Substantia Veneris est pluvia, Lune aqua…’ (130r-138r); ‘Cum volueris scire applicationem alicuius magne revolutionis, vide quot transierunt…’ (138v-146v); ‘Ut iudices (?) dispositionem vite prescite in mansionum…’ (147v-158v); ‘Testamentum Gebri in arte probatissimum opus, nihil habens falsitatis. In nomine omnium rerum superiorum…’ (159r-179v) and other alchemical texts (180r-234r); ‘Notandum secundum Iohannem Rupicissam in qua hora, die et mense ibi fieri. Inceptio operis etiam signo debito. Item. In occasu Solis…’ (234v-235v); ‘In cuius (?) nomine omne celestium, terrestrium et infernorum… ego Leopoldus Liepharth incipio hanc rescribere artem phisicam… Qui desiderant artis philosophice…’ (236r-249v). Blank: 33-34, 44v-46v, 50v, 61v, 85r, 114v-115v, 129v.

Bibl. P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV, London-Leiden, 1989, 401; M. Markowski, Astronomica et astrologica Cracoviensia ante annum 1550, Firenze, 1990, 291 (‘R. 57.II’ by mistake).

2r–⁠3r

‘Canon primus ostendens invenire gradum ascendentem alicuius nativitatis humane… <C>irculum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptholomei 51 rectificare. Sit tempus datum — iuxta quam illum tota figura rectificanda est in tempore.’

= Albertus de Brudzewo (?), Circulum pro exitu geniture ab utero iuxta verbum Ptolomei 51 rectificare (C.3.17)

, as the first canon of the Tractatus de scientia nativitatum. Glosses apparently by another hand.