Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers

C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Ph.D. (2012), University of Munich, is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of chronology, calendars, and astronomy in medieval Europe, including Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar (Brill, 2014).

Preface

Abbreviations and Manuscript Sigla

Part 1 Ptolomeus et multi sapientum



Introduction

 1 General Characteristics

 2 The Tables of Pisa/Lucca

 3 Authorship

 4 Reception

 5 Transmission

 6 Editorial Principles



Ptolemy and Many among the Sages …

 I On the Length of the Year

 II On the Construction of Tables

 III On the Motions of the Planets



Commentary



Appendix: Description of C, fols. 75v–80v



Part 2 Robert of Chester, Liber Canonum, pt. II: Tables of London



Introduction

 1 Sources and General Characteristics

 2 Structure and Style

 3 Transmission

 4 The Tables of London

 5 The Tables of Toledo

 6 Reception

 7 Editorial Principles



Robert of Chester, Book of Canons, Part II



Commentary



Appendix: Additions to the Text in A and S



Bibliography

Index