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†Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale, 286

Date:

s. XIV (1343 for the Ptolemaic section, cf. colophon).

Or.:

Paris (for the Ptolemaic section, cf. colophon).

Prov.:

‘Herman de Bure’; Metz, cathedral. The MS was bombed in 1944.

Parchment and paper, several sloppy hands (‘plusieurs écritures très négligées’).

Astrology and astronomy: Ptolemaica (#1), followed by astronomical sections, so described in the Catalogue general: ‘2^o Tabula motus astrorum, cum tractaculo. – Incipit: “Postquam… de motibus celestibus aliquam certitudinem.” – 3^o De theorica Lune et vi planetarum. – Incipit: “Centro vero epicicli exeunte.” – 4^o Tabulae et canones tabularum magistri Hermanni de Saxonia. – Incipit: “Anno Christi 1361 completo, ad meridiem 10 diei.”’

Bibl. Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France des départements, in -4^o, V, Paris, 1879, 122-123; R. Lemay, Le Kitāb aṯ-Ṯamara (Liber fructus, Centiloquium) d’Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf [Ps.-Ptolémée], 1999 [unpublished], I, 252.

#1	‘Ptolomei astrorum peritissimi Centilogii liber. Dixit Ptholomeus: Iam scripsi tibi — Scriptus Parisius anno Christi 1343, 16 kal. Augusti, hora vespertina. Amen.’ = Abuiafar Hamet filius Joseph, 〈Commentum in Centiloquium〉 (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (C.3.1.1) .