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1. Arundel MS 66

Reference (shelfmark):
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-248v: Guid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Harley MS 3702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3702
Title:
Astronomical tracts and tables; calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Short astronomical notes, beginning: 'generalis Regula pro omnibus .5. planetis'. ff. 1v-46r: Astronomical tables for the course of the planets, Sun and Moon, beginning: 'Saturni tabula prima secundum almanach'; including tables for the Sun which are attributed to a certain 'Daneko'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1461
Extent:
1 volume

3. Burney MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
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

4. Or 5591, ff 154r-157r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 154r-157r
Title:
Faṣl fī dhikr dalālāt dhāt al-dhawāʼib ʻalá raʼī Baṭlīmūs wa-l-hind فصل في ذكر دلالات ذات الذوائب على رأي بطليموس والهند
Scope & Content:
Chapter on making astrological judgments based on comets allegedly drawn from the works of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, here بطليموس, Claudius Ptolemaeus, d. ca AD 168) and Indian sources. This text is numbered 15 (يه) in the present collection. 　 Begins (f. 154r, lines 2-5): ... قالو (!) إذا ظهر في برج الحمل ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 154r-157r

5. Add MS 7474

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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 divided in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 2r-60v

7. Or 11209

Reference (shelfmark):
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
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 divided in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

8. Add MS 7475

Reference (shelfmark):
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 calls t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Extent:

Ff. 81v-102v

10. Or 5323

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5323
Title:
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
Scope & Content:
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

11. Add MS 10755

Reference (shelfmark):
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

12. Add MS 20751

Reference (shelfmark):
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

13. MS Facsimile 72/19

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Facsimile 72/19
Title:
PTOLEMY: Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82
Scope & Content:
PTOLEMY: Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82 phototypice depictus consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae Tomus Prodromus Josephi Fischer S.J. Four volumes. Vol. I, Commentary. Vol. II, Collotype reproductions (83) of maps from 53 manuscripts. Vol. III, Collotype reprod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 item

14. Harley MS 3290

Reference (shelfmark):
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). Contents: f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
1 volume

15. 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

16. Harley MS 3686

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3686
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 1355, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 1355, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

18. Harley MS 7195

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7195
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 1355, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Add MS 19391, ff 14-17

Reference (shelfmark):
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

20. Harley MS 3306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3306
Title:
Ptolemy, On Music translated into Latin by Niccolò Leoniceno
Scope & Content:
A deluxe copy of the treatise of Claudius Ptolomaeus On Music in Latin from the library of the Franchino Gaufurio a Renaissance theorist of music and harmony. Contents: f.1v-2r: Table of chapters, with the inscription: 'Franchini Gafurii Laudensis musice professoris hic liber est (written in the sam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 volume

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