New Search Name Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168

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1. Add MS 22790

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Add MS 22790
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1. HERMANNI Contracti liber de Compositione Astrolabii, f. 1. 2. "Rithmachia," liber de arithmeticâ, f. 4 b. 3. Almagesti Ptolomæi Philudensis libri abbreviatio, f. 6. 4. Fragmentum tractatus grammatici, f. 7. 5. Synonyma quædam Græca et Latina, f. 8 b. 6. Fragmentum tractatus logici, etc., f. 9. Ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Arundel MS 268

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Arundel MS 268
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Scientific miscellany
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

Parchment and paper codex

3. Sloane MS 3554

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Sloane MS 3554
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includes: ff. 1-31 b Claudius Ptolemaeus, astronomer: Compilatio a medico Regis Almarici de arte Ptolomaæi: 15th cent. f. 2 Theology: De angelis: 15th cent. f. 32 Chronology: De partibus temporis: 15th cent. ff. 33 b-37 Secundus, Sophist, of Athens: Questiones inter eum et Hadrianum Imperatorem: 14t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 7475

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Add MS 7475
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Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī al-ta‘līm al-ma‘rūf bi-l-Majisṭī naqala Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn كتاب بطلميوس في التعليم المعروف بالمجسطي نقل إسحق بن حنين Ptolemy بطلميوس
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Books Seven to Thirteen of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The book title on f. 199v names the translator as Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (d. c 910), the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 873). This manuscript calls t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

5. Or 7368

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Or 7368
Title:
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Avicenna ابن سينا
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Commentary on Ptolemy's (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), said to be by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي; ca 870-950), but in fact by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037). Notes on front paper iii verso and f. 1r...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Ramaḍān 628
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Codex; ff. iiii+106+ii

6. Add MS 7473, ff 81v-102v

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Add MS 7473, ff 81v-102v
Title:
Kitāb fī al-hay’ah al-musammá al-iqtiṣāṣ كتاب في الهيئة المسمى بالاقتصاص Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation of the Planetary Hypotheses (Ὑποθέσεις τῶν πλανωμένων, كتاب الاقتصاص) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The work is divided into two books: Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 81v-92v); Book Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. ). The original Greek text of Book Two is lost. Book One b...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
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Ff. 81v-102v

7. Or 5323

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Or 5323
Title:
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
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An illustrated description by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (عبد الرحمن الصوفي; d. 986) of the 48 classical constellations discussed by Ptolemy in his Almagest. The text contains labelled illustrations of the 48 constellations as viewed on a celestial globe and as viewed in the sky, along with supporting t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1260-1280
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+86+ii

8. Add MS 7474

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Add MS 7474
Title:
Kitāb al-Majisṭī كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Books One to Six of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (786-830). This was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived from ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
686
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+183+ii

9. Or 11209

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Or 11209
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divided in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

10. Add MS 19391, ff 14-17

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Add MS 19391, ff 14-17
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia VII-VIII, 1-4, with tables.
Scope & Content:
Geographia VII-VIII, 1-4, with tables.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

4 folios

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