Firmicus Maternus, Julius (fl. c. 350).

De nativitatibus seu Matheseos libri VIII. Written in a semi-current humanistic hand, 33 lines to a page. Illustrated with pen-drawn astrological figures on fol. Iv, 163, 166. Fol. 1 CIUITELLA. S. PAULI: DOMINUS: BASILIUS: MEDIOLA-NENSIS./CASTELLANUS: ORDINIS. S. PAULI: // QUI: SUNT: HI: GEMITUS?: CHARITUM QUE POMPA? ... / (4 lines) / SI FASTUS: HOMINUM: PARUA: FAUILLA: RAPIT. Below two epitaphs 'IN MARMORE ANTIQUISSIMO' the first of 6 lines beginning 'UIXISSES: UTINAM: ET: POTIUS: MEA: CARTA: TACERET:' the second of four lines beginning 'QUE: TIBI: CUNQUE: MEI: POTUERUNT: PIGNORA: AMORIS'. 1v Circular figure, with text, for finding the day of the month. 2 Table of planetary signs. 3v Table of constellations. 4 IULII: FIRMICI: MATERNI: IUNI / ORIS: C[LARISSIMI]. U[IRI]. MATHESEOS: LIBER. / PRIMUS: INCIPIT. / [O]lim tibi hos libellos Mauroti decus nostrum Editurum me esse pro / miseram ... 162v ... Ex omnium stellarum potestatibus collocantes quicquid decretum fuerit / veris possimus Explicare sententiis. /// FINIS. 163 Horoscopic figures, etc. 163v Astrological table and a figure (horoscope) for an un-named person stated to have been born on 5 April 1488. 164 ORDO: RECTIFICANDI: NATALIS. // In rectificanda figura coeli in natalibus hunc obseruare ordinem oportebit ... (Ends) ... Dicens locum lunae [sign] temporis natalis etc. This note is signed 'Aristophilus Ex Hermete'. 164v Astrological notes. 165 ACCIPE itaque. Mauorti decus nostrum quod tibi cum summa animi trepidatione / promisimus ... (Ends) ... quod nos per uigili cura et labore animi pariter et cor / poris cum maxima sollicitudine ac trepidatione perfectimus. Below notes on divination by names, headed 'HAEC: EGO: EX: CABALICO: HERMETIS: UOLUMINE: ARI' signed 'ARISTOPHILUS CONUERTIT'. 166 Horoscopic figure for Antonius Abbas Admontensis, with astrological notes. 166v SCRIPSIT: MACERATA: IULII: FIRMICI: AUREUM: OPUS: ARISTOPHILO: RO[MANO?]: DUC[ENNIO?]: ATQUE: QUAT[ERNO?]: PATAQUII: Below, repeated five times in different forms of Greek script: O TON EKEINOY OBEI.