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

1. 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. B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 81v-102v

2. 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 f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
686
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+183+ii

3. Add MS 7475

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Add MS 7475
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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 cal...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

4. Add MS 7476

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Add MS 7476
Title:
Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح شرح المجسطي Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Supercommentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī (تحرير كتاب المجسطي), an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+343+ii

5. Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r

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Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad مزي، شمس [زين] الدين محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise in ten parts (فصل) and a conclusion (خاتمة) on using the astrolabe by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mizzī (زين الدين محمد المزي, d. 1349). A title page (f. 1r) reads as follows: هذه رسالة الأسطرلاب للشيخ الإمام العلامة زين الدين عبد الرحمن المزي الحنفي رحمه الله تعلى (!) A note in the mu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 1r-7r

6. Add MS 10755

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Add MS 10755
Title:
LIBRO D'ORO; fatto l'anno 1722. Quarto. [10,755.]
Scope & Content:
Venice: "Libro d'Oro," ossia enumerazione delle famiglie nobili Venete; various copies: compiled between 1550 and 1714. 'Libro d'Oro': ossia enumerazione delle famiglie nobili Venete; various copies: from 1550 to 1722.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item

7. 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

8. Add MS 20751

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Add MS 20751
Title:
NOTES on the Geography of Ptolemy, by John Holmes, F.S.A., Assistant-keeper of MSS. in the British Museum; with notices of MS. copies and printed editions of the work. Paper; XIXth cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Claudius Ptolemaeus, astronomer: Notes on his geography, by J. Holmes: 19th cent. John Holmes, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum: Notes on Ptolemy's Geography: 19th cent. Geography: Notes on Ptolemy's Geography by J. Holmes: 19th cent. Bibliography: Collections by J. Holmes: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 22772

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Add MS 22772
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JOHANNIS Campani Novariensis liber astronomicus de erroribus Ptolemæi. Dedicated to Pope Urban IV. Paper; in double columns; XVth cent. Folio. Urban IV; Pope: was dedicated to him. Claudius Ptolemaeus, astronomer: Liber astronomictus de ejus erroribus, per J. Campanum: 15th cent. Giovanni Cam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. 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, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

11. Add MS 22808

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Add MS 22808
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Scope & Content:
TRACTATUS Astronomici: 1. M. Manilii Astronomicon liber I. Metrice. Imperfect. f. 1. 2. "Canones super tabulas Alfoncii [X.] illustrissimi Regis Castelle et Romanorum electi," f. 12. 3. "Centilogium [Claudii] Ptholomei cum comento Abugasari [Abu Dschafar ben Yusuf Ben Ibrahim] conseriptum," ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 23392

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Add MS 23392
Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá II 956
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+160+iv

13. Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v

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Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v
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
Scope & Content:
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 divid...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 2r-60v

14. Arundel MS 66

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Arundel MS 66
Title:
Astrological compilation and political prophecies
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1v-2v: Canons to John Killingworth's tables, attributed to Thomas Pray. ff. 3r-32v: John Killingworth (Chillingworth), Astronomical tables. ff. 33r-47r: Catalogue of Stars extracted from Ptolemy's Almagest in the Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona. ff. 48r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490
Extent:

Parchment codex

15. Arundel MS 268

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

Parchment and paper codex

16. Arundel MS 339

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Arundel MS 339
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Scope & Content:
Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 152, sec. fortassis xiv. 1. Tabula synoptica Artium et Scientiarum. fol. 1. 2. Anitii Manlii Severini Boethii de Arithmetica libri duo. fol. 1. b. 3. Leopaldi eujusdam, ut videtur, de Arithmetica libelli tres, metrice. fol. 31. b. Incip. "Aspira menti Leopaldi, Mu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

17. Burney MS 104

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Burney MS 104
Title:
Commentary on and introduction to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Scope & Content:
Commentary on Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (edited by Wolf 1559), tit. Ἐξήγησις εἰς τὸν τετράβιβλον τοῦ Πτολεμαίου, ff 3r-120v. Followed (ff 121v-128v) by Porphyrius, Introductio in tetrabiblum Ptolemaei (TLG 2034.028), imperfect, expl. ἄρξει μεγάλου ἀποστελέσματος.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1543
Extent:

128 folios

18. Burney MS 111

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 111
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009)
Scope & Content:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009), ff 3r-114r. Many diagrams and coloured maps. Preceded on f 2v by four epigrams on the Geography by Maximus Planudes, and followed on f 114r by heroic verses on the poem, inc. Ἐν γραμμαῖς τὸν κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

114 folios

19. Egerton MS 847

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Egerton MS 847
Title:
VARIA Astronomica, inter quae, Canon Volvellæ, canon super anulum, usus quadrantis, secundum M. Browne, etc. ;-Tractatus de effectu lunæ, dum fuerit in diversis signis firmamenti ;-De signis zodiacis;- Tabulæ lunæ et planetarum ;-Tractatus parvus de lunationibus Interpretatio sompniorum Danielis ;-Physionomia Aristotelis ;- Tractatus alius de physionomia;-Tractatus chiromantiæ, compilatus per magistrum Rodricum de Majoricis, in Universitate Oxon;-Tractatus de physionomia ;-Practica geome...
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Robert Grostête, Bishop of Lincoln: Tractatus de sphæra. Astronomy: Tractatus varii astronomici. Astronomy: Tabulae astronomicae variae. Astronomy: De signis Zodiaci. Al. Browne: Usus quadrantis, secundum eum. Walter Brytte: Theorica planetarum. Aristoteles, Stagirita, Philosophus; obiit a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Harley MS 3290

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Harley MS 3290
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia; Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two cosmographical works: Geographia (Geography), written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), and Imago mundi (Image of the World), by the French theologian and astrologer Pierre d'Ailly (b. 1351, d. 1420). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
1 volume

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