Work A.2.1
Ptolemy
Quadripartitum (tr. Plato of Tivoli)
Translated from the Arabic (in the version by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt revised by Hunayn ibn Iṣhāq) by Plato of Tivoli in Barcelona in 1138, as stated in the colophon ‘Et perfecta est eius translatio de Arabico in Latinum a Tiburtino Platone, cui Deus parcat, hora tercia XXa die mensis Octobris, anno domini MCXXXVIII, XV die mensis Saphar, anno Arabum DXXXIII, in civitate Barchinona’ (this colophon in present is six manuscripts: Arras, BM, 844 (47); Cambridge, UL, Ii 3.3 (1767); Naples, BN, VIII D 2; Oxford, BL, Digby 51; Pommersfelden, GSB, 60 (2633); Vatican, BAV, Reg. lat. 1692). The name of the translator also occurs in the title of MS Paris, BnF, lat. 7320: ‘Incipit liber… a Platone Tiburtino de Arabico in Latinum translatus’. Plato’s translation is the source text of commentaries C.2.1, C.2.4, C.2.14, C.2.18, C.2.23 (Books III-IV) and C.2.34, and was also used in commentary C.2.21.
Note In addition to the early printed editions listed below, lemmas of Plato’s translation were printed together with Haly Abenrudian’s Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2) in eds Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1493, sig. 2r-106v, and Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 1519, sig. [aa4]r-96v. Books III and IV are also reproduced in full in Giuntini’s In duos posteriores Ptolemaei Quadripartiti libros absolutissima commentaria (C.2.34).
Text ‘(ed. Venice 1484) (a2r) Liber Quadripartiti Ptolomei, id est quattuor tractatuum, in radicanti discretione per stellas de futuris et in hoc mundo constructionis et destructionis contingentibus, cuius primo tractatu sunt 24 capitula, incipit. (a2r-b5r) [
Bibl. F. Wüstenfeld, Die Übersetzungen Arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert, Göttingen, 1877, 40 (no. 3); M. Steinschneider, Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Wien, 1904, 65 (no. 98h); A. A. Björnbo, ‘Die mittelalterlichen lateinischen Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen auf dem Gebiete der mathematischen Wissenschaften’, in Festschrift Moritz Cantor anläßlich seines achtzigsten Geburtstages gewidnet von Freuden und Verehrern, Leipzig, 1909, 93-102: 99 (no. 17); C. H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science, Cambridge, 1927 (2nd ed.), 110; F. J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation. A Critical Bibliography, Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1956, 18 (no. 10a); C. Burnett, ‘Ptolemy’s Differentiation between Astronomy and Astrology in the Greek-Arabic-Latin Tradition’, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes 47 (2024), 373-403.
Modern ed. None. The second book has been translated into Italian and commented upon by G. Bezza, Claudio Tolemeo: Il secondo libro del Quadripartitum con il commento di ‘Alī ibn Riḍwān. Introduzione, traduzione e note, Lugano, 2014 (on the basis of ed. Venice 1493, which also includes Egidius de Tebaldis’s translation as part of Haly Abenrudian’s Glosa super Quadripartito Tholomei (C.2.2)).
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