Name: Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490
Extent:: Parchment codex

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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1435-c 1461
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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 بر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Ff. 154r-157r

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

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 divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Ff. 2r-60v

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 divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+74+i

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 cal...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 615
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

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. B...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 639
Extent:: Ff. 81v-102v

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 supporti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1260-1280
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+86+ii

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