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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Boston, Public Library, Ms. f.E.190.82 (Boncompagni 469)

s. XVII.

Prov.:

Baldassarre Boncompagni (1821-1894).

Paper, I+328 f. numbered 1-182 and 1-146, 316x222mm.

Ptolemaica (single text).

Bibl. E. Narducci, Catalogo di manoscritti ora posseduti da D. Baldassarre Boncompagni, Roma, 1892, 278; R. B. Thomson, M. Folkerts, Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks, Beta Version 2.1 (October 2021), published online, 39.

1r–⁠182v + 1r–⁠140v

‘(1r-182v) Valentini Naibodae mathematici praeclarissimi in Claudii Ptolomaei Quadripartitae constructionis apotelesmaticum tertium comentarius novus et eiusdem conversio nova. Caput primum, quod est proemium. Postquam in superioribus explicata est a nobis casuum universitati — (182r) opponitur loci dominus extiterit, in suo loco dictum est. Finis libri tertii Ptolomaei. (182v) Adverte quod in genitura Iohannis Baptista Cardani horoscopus est gradu 15 Sagittarii — ad qualitatem mortis ex capitis truncatione significandam. (1r-140v) Valentini Naibodae mathematici preclarissimi in Claudii Ptolomaei Quadripartitae constructionis apotelesmaticum quartum commentarius novus et eiusdem conversio nova. Caput primum, quod est proaemium. Tex<to> primo. Quaecumque de utrisque et quae genituram praecedunt et quae eidem adiunguntur cognosci poterant — carcerum tormentorumque minis pecunias excutiant.’

= Valentin Nabod, In Claudii Ptolemaei Quadripartitae constructionis apotelesmata commentarius novus et eiusdem conversio nova (C.2.30)

, Books III-IV. No glosses on the pages for which we have reproductions, i.e. f. 1r-2r, 180v-182v (first part) + f. 1r-2r and 139v-140v (second part).