Byzantium ; Constantinople, 9th century, first quarter (with 9th/10th century and 12-14th century additions)
Language
Ancient Greek
Title
Composite manuscript (Greek)
Tabulae manuales
astronomical tables
Commentarius in Ptolemaei Tabulas manuales
1. (ff. 1-2, 52-152) Tabulas manuales / Ptolemy, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 3-51) Commentarius brevior / Theon of Alexandria, and other text(s) - And other part(s), BPG 78
Content:
Contains in Greek: (f. 1v) Intercalary table. - (f. 2r) Epact
cycle. - (ff. 3r-49r, 156r-161v) Commentarius parvus in Ptolemaei
Tabulas manuales / Theon of Alexandria. - (ff. 49v-74v) Various
tables, lists and texts on chronology and astronomy. - (ff.
75r-145r) Tabulae manuales / Ptolemy. Intermixed with (a.o.) a
fragment of: Commentarius magnus in Ptolemaei Tabulas manuales .
Theon of Alexandria's (113v-114r). - (f. 145v-150v, 152r)
Hemerologium / Theon of Alexandria (?). Note:
Several missing leaves of the oldest part (first quarter 9th
century) were replaced in the 13th century, except for a missing
leaf after f. 57 (now ff. 1-2, 52-152). In the late 13th or early
14th century a new part (now ff. 3-51) was added. Some other texts
were added on empty pages (ff. 2v, 53v) or inserted on new leaves
(ff. 156-161, 162-163).
Date: 9th century (partially 813-820): ff. 1v-2r, 52-152 (except
the later inserted leaves). - 9th/10th centuries: f. 2v, 156-161. -
12th century (late): ff. 162-163. - 13th century: ff. 71, 79, 87,
92, 96, 101, 108-120, 124, 129-130, 135, 147, 153-155 (inserted
leaves). - 13th/14th centuries: ff. 1r, 3-51. - 14th century: f.
53v.
Script: The oldest part written by one scribe; the later parts by
at least twelve scribes.
Transferred from the Oriental manuscripts before 1852 (mentioned in
Geel 1852). Former shelfmark: Or. 182.
Binding: Post-medieval binding (18th century).
Textual: Ptolemy included astronomical tables in his Syntaxis, but
republished them with an introduction in a second work, the 'Handy
tables' (gr. Procheiroi kanones, lat. tabulae manuales). Theon of
Alexandria wrote a 'Great commentary' on those tables (5 books;
extant: books 1-3 and beginning of 4), and a 'Little commentary' (1
book; extant).
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Geel 1852):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (De Meyier 1965):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:120465
Also described by Pinakes. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
9th century
