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Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4082

Owner institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Date

1400 - 1499

Miscellanea

Date: 15th century (1401–1402, at least for fols. 47–222)

Place: University of Padua (at least for folios 47–246)

Material: Paper manuscript

Foliation: I + 346 fols.

Names:

Petrus de Fita Padue (copied, cf. fols. 60va, 97rb, 108va, 113va, 152vb, 222va)

Janus Aquinus Madio Tabernas 1553 (fol. Ir)

Hands:

Hand I: fols. 1–21 and 252–342

Hand II: fols. 47–246

  • The codex contains works on optics, astronomy, astrology, natural philosophy, and medicine
  • The manuscript is notable for its high proportion of blank leaves, including: fol. IV; fols. 22–46; 66v; 86; 114–120; 154–160; 184v–192v; 212v; 247–251; 281; 298v–299r; and 343–346
De optica sive perspectiva
Author(s): Iohannes Pecham. Folia: 1r-21v
Demonstrationes in Theorica planetarum
Author(s): Blasius de Parma. Folia: 47ra-60va
Libellus de motu solis
Author(s): Folia: 61ra-66rb
Tractatus de sphaera (commentum)
Author(s): Folia: 67ra-82va
Quaestiones Meteororum
Author(s): Blasius de Parma. Folia: 82vb-85va
De reprobatione eccentricorum et epiciclorum
Author(s): Henricus de Hassia. Folia: 87ra-97rb
Tractatus de incommensurabilitate motuum celestium
Author(s): Nicolaus Oresme. Folia: 97va-108va
Algorismus proportionum
Author(s): Nicolaus Oresme. Folia: 109ra-113va
Epitome totius astrologie
Author(s): pseudo-Iohannes Hispalensis. Folia: 121ra-140ra
De nativitatibus
Author(s): ʿUmar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Ṭabarī. Folia: 140rb-152vb
Proportiones competentes in astrorum industria [cap. 11, 12, 15, 18]
Author(s): ʿUmar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Ṭabarī. Folia: 153ra-vb
De iudiciis astrorum [Book VII]
Author(s): Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Abī l-Rijāl. Folia: 161ra-184ra
De magnete
Author(s): Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt. Folia: 193ra-195vb
Liber iudiciorum infirmitatum
Author(s): Andalò De Nigro. Folia: 196ra-209ra
Ptolemaica
Author(s): Andalò De Nigro. Folia: 209va-210ra
De urina non visa
Author(s): Guillelmus Anglicus. Folia: 210ra-212va
Table showing the parts of the body corresponding to the position of each planet in the 12 signs
Author(s): Folia: 212r
Liber imaginum signorum, cum additionibus magistri Arnaldi de Villanova
Author(s): Hermes Trismegistus. Folia: 213rb-215ra
Introductorium maius (translation Iohannes Hispalensis)
Author(s): Albumasar. Folia: 215rb-219ra
De quindecim stellis
Author(s): Hermes Trismegistus. Folia: 219ra-222vb
“Primum capitulum est de tabulis motuum planetarum…”
Author(s): Folia: 252ra-264vb
Alfonsine star catalogue
Author(s): Folia: 265r-280v
Astronomical tables said to belong to the same work
Author(s): Folia: 282r-298r
Astronomical notes
Author(s): Folia: 299v
“Rem mihi iocundam magis quam facilem, arduam nimis sed necessariam...”
Author(s): Folia: 300ra-342vb

Studies

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  • Inventarium librorum Latinorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae (handwritten catalogue), V: 100-101
  • Kristeller P.O., Iter Italicum, II, London-Leiden, 1977: 325
  • Panti C., The Oxford-Paris connection of optics and the theory of rainbow: Grosseteste’s De iride, pseudo-Oresme’s Inter omnes impressiones and Bacon’s Perspectiva in Paris, BnF. lat. 7434, in Le Moyen Âge et les sciences, ed. Jacquart – A. Paravicini Bagliani, SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze 2021, pp. 251-280;
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