MS. Laud Lat. 111

Summary Catalogue no.: 651

Georgius Trapezuntius, Commentary on Ptolemy, Almagest

Incipit: [preface to Jacopo Antonio Marcello] Claudii Ptolomei de corporum coelestium motu libros e Greca lingua in Latinam nobis traductos

Incipit: Quoniam libros Ptolomei de motibus celestium quibus nescio quam quicquam altius

Incipit: Codicis hujus quam exposituri gratia Creatoris sumus volumina librique Jacobe Antonii Marcelle

Explicit: hoc est ipsorum excentricorum majus inter observationes temporis spacium exigit quam vitam hominis sit

Explicit: Laudetur nomen tuum, qui me hoc opus in die foelicitatis nostrae absolvere voluisti Christe Benedicte, quod in die quoque felici tuae Incarnationis incepi absolvique novem id mensibus. Traductionem vero textus mensibus novem diebus duo et viginti. Quovis rei testis gravissimus est ipse Pontifex summus, qui volumen traducendum mense Marcii tradidit et mense Decembris anni ejusdem et librum traductum et commentarios vidit absolutos, propter quos postea me destruxit, ut sceetule ostendunt per ignorantissimum Jacobum Cremonensem appositae.

Followed by epilogue addressed to Pope Nicholas :

Incipit: Memini beatissime Pater quando sanctitati tuae obtuli libros Ptolomatici nuper a me traductos

Explicit: ipsa me coget si eo prsssente non potero absente saltem quam plurimis doctis ho- minibus convocatis meum adversus ignorantes honorem defendere. Laus Deo. Jo. Rasel.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 153 leaves; large folio

Hand(s)

Written by 'Jo. Rasel'.

Binding

Rebound in sprinkled calf, 18th century.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Domenico Grimani, cardinal of Venice

William Laud, 1573-1645, 1635

Part of his second donation to the Bodleian Library, 16 June 1636.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885) with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 50

Quarto Catalogue, col. 51

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 29

Bibliography

David Juste, ‘MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Lat. 111’ (update: 27.10.2021), Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus. Manuscripts, URL = http://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/650

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-12: Description revised to include all information from Quarto catalogue.

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