Complete Works of Claudius Ptolemy, Vol. II (1898) - Page 13

a blank unnumbered leaf, on the reverse of which is: Ptolemy 23, and fol. 96—99 Synt. V, 1; fol. 100r is blank; fol. 100v—112 in different ink, Theophilus' collection on cosmic beginnings, fol. 113—117 are blank, fol. 118 (begins quire 16) — 136r Phases (fol. 136r below: Ptolemy again 19 leaves), fol. 136v a small table of fixed stars and manifest stars of the year 6839 by the Byzantine era, i.e., 1331 AD, fol. 137 various notes, fol. 138—151r various astronomical matters with figures (especially of the arachne astrolabe/spider), fol. 151v—153 various notes (fol. 144r, top margin, is read a certain calculation of grain: the wheat found in the fortress of the 14th indiction; that which was brought in... the 15th... 4 modii. Beyond that from the morra 100 modii. From the threshing floors 256 modii; 30 modii of barley and from the morra 20 modii of barley and 15 modii of chickpeas and from the gerra 30 modii of chickpeas. But there was also released... to the fortress towards the Leontian 300 modii. — I collated this myself in Rome in 1899.

B — codex Vatic. gr. 1594, see I p. IV.

C — Savilian codex 11 (see Catalogi librorum mss. Angliae et Hiberniae p. 300), of which Fabricius gave a collation (Bibliotheca Graeca, Hamb. 1708, III p. 420 sqq.). But I fear that he erred too often; for his transcript, which was itself in the hands of the typesetters*), is now kept in the Copenhagen University library (Fabric. 95, 4to), having inspected which later, I recognized not without indignation, that in those places where C seemed to me to have something useful, the Copenhagen transcript mostly conspired with the errors of codex A. Since Fabricius must be thought to have known nothing else about the Savilian codex than what the transcript taught him, I do not hesitate to attribute these readings of the transcript to codex C as well: p. 16, 12 middle (abbreviation),

*) This is apparent both from the stained leaves and from the marginal notes, such as at III p. 7, 23 eōa eastern: "4 new line", compare Fabricius p. 425. The title is: "From the manuscript codex of the Savilian Library, which was collated with its own copy (deleted and written above: Vatican, by another hand) with observations placed in the margins". Also in the Savilian one is: collated with the Vatican copy.