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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paul of Gerresheim, Expositio practice tabule tabularum et propositionum Ptolomei pro compositione tabule sinuum et cordarum necessariarum

Brussels, BR, 1022-1047 · 194v

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