The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.1.19
Alternative Title

Heraclius Graece

James Number 1043
Century 17th
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738.C. 61. No. 193.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 21 x 16
Folio 2 + 133 pp. written, and two folding sheets inserted.
Material Paper
Language ArabicGreek
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.1.19/manifest.json
Online Since 19/06/2020

Contents

Heraclii Imperatoris Commentarius in Ptolemaei
Canones προχεὀρους. Idemque de Paschate Christiano.
Liber emendate scriptus, rarus, ineditus.
f.i (This perhaps in Young's hand.) Probably the treatise is transcribed from Bodl. MS. Cromwell 12, p.1025
f.ii Ἐπὀγραμμα εἰς τοάς προχεὀρους κανὠ̑νας
(haec ex alio mso cod. de astron. descripsi).
4 lines beginning
Δέρκεο βὀβλον τα′την ἡ̑ς γε πατὴρ πτολεμαὶος.
Table of chapters (23) headed
f.1 ἄνχιδος (ἄνακτος) ἐστίν ἡ βὀβλος ἡρακλεὀου
α̅. Ὅ σα δεὶ προειδέναι τοάς ὁρχομένους του̑ κανὠ̑νος.
Text of c.1 begins
Ὅτι ἡ σ′στασις τω̑ν κανὠ̑νων γέγονεν ἐν τῃ κατ| αὺγυπτον ὁλεξανδρεὀᾷ.
c. 23 ends on p.133: τὴν ζωοποιὥν ὁνάστασιν Χριστου̑ του̑ Θεου̑ ἡμω̑ν ἐπιτελου̑ντες. Χαὀροντες κ. δοξάζοντες τὥ πανάγιον αὑ̑του̑ ἡ̑νομα σάν τω̑ ὁνάρχω πατρί κ. ζωοποιω̑ κ. παναγὀω πνε′ματι νυ̑ν κ. ὁεί κ.τ.λ. ὁμᾠν.
Then follow two folded sheets in Arabic with diagrams.
The first has the Libellus Hypsiclis de Ascensionibus, ὁνέκδοτος.
The second, on p.1
Inc. liber Theodosii de diebus et noctibus.
On p.2
Finis libri Aristarchi de Corpore Luminarium (scil. Solis et Lunae),
and some further notes in Latin.

Bibliography

Tihon, A., 'L'astronomie byzantine (du Ve au Xve siècle)', Byzantion 51 (1981), 603-24

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