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A Misdated Manuscript of Gellius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

L. A. Holford-Strevens
L. A. Holford-Strevens
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The manuscript B of Aulus Gellius, containing N.A. 9-12 and 13.5, and now split at potuit/admonendi 12.10.3 between Cod. Bern. 404 and Cod. Lugd.- Bat. B. P. L. 1925, is dated by Hosius (Teubner edn., I.xii) and Marshall (O.C.T. I.xvii) to 1173 on the strength of the subscript to an astronomical work immediately preceding Gellius in Cod. Bern. 404. This work is the ‘Liber Atphargan'i [sic] in scientia astrorum et radicibus motuum caelestium’’ translated by Johannes Hispalensis; the subscriptio, quoted in full by Hertz (.ed. max., Il.lxi), indicates the date as follows (I expand contractions): Expletus est die uicesimo quarto. V. mensis lunaris anni Arabum quingentesimi. XXVIIII. existente,. . die mensis Martii era. M.C.LXXIII.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , May 1979 , pp. 226 - 227
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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References

page 226 note 1 See M. Alonso Alonso,'Juan Sevillano: sus obras propias y sus traducciones’’, Al-Andalus 18 (1953), 17–49. Johannes’’ original was al-Farghāni's astronomical compendium (Kitāb fi jawāmi' Urn an nujum), later translated anew by Gerard of Cremona; the title ‘liber Atphargan' i etc’’ implies Kitāb al-Fargāni fi ‘ilm an-nujam wa-’’ usul al-harakät assamdwiyya.

page 227 note 1 See Alonso, pp.38–9, where however Cod. Bern. 404 is not listed.

page 227 note 2 Ed. mai., II.lxi n. ††, lxii–lxiii n.**.