Fabricius 23 2º: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia (fragment)

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Fabricius 23 2º: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia (fragment)

Parchment, 2 ff. (1 bifolium); 55 × 41 cm; 1250–1300

The fragment contains parts of book VIII of Ptolemy’s classic work on geography, illustrated with three coloured maps

The manuscript once belonged to Marquard Gude (1635-1689). It was acquired by Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736) at the only partially completed auctions of Gude's manuscripts in Hamburg 1706 & 1709. Fabricius' manuscript collection was inherited by his son-in-law Hermann Samuel Reimarus, after whose death in 1768 it was bought as an ensemble by Copenhagen University Library in 1770. The entire University Library collection of manuscripts was incorporated into the Royal Library in 1938

Bibl.: Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82 phototypice depictus, ed. J. Fischer, Leiden & Leipzig 1932, tomus prodromus, pars prior, p. 210 & 243-247 (facs.: tomus prodromus, pars altera, A 3). - Bjarne Schartau, Codices Graeci Haunienses. Ein Descriptiver Katalog des griechischen Handschriftenbestandes der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhagen. Mit zwei Appendices von Erik Petersen, Copenhagen 1994, p. 361 & 497f. - Erik Petersen, Intellectum Liberare. Johann Albert Fabricius - en humanist i Europa. København 1998, p. 1049. - Erik Petersen (ed.), Living Words & Luminous Pictures. Catalogue, Copenhagen & Århus 1999, p. 78f. no. 110. - Florian Mittenhuber, Text- und Kartentradition in der Geographie des Klaudios Ptolemaios. Eine Geschichte der Kartenüberlieferung vom ptolemäischen Original bis in die Renaissance, Bern 2009, p. 136-209. - Renate Burri, Die "Geographie" des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften, Berlin 2013, p. 270-276 & passim

Erik Petersen