PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 3161

s. XV2 (after 1473/1474).

Or.:

Italy, annotated by Giovanni Pontano between 1479 and 1490 (information Michele Rinaldi).

Paper, 65 f. (previously foliated 9-73), a single neat hand. The MS is missing folia at the beginning and at the end.

Ptolemaica (single text).

Bibl. Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter Graecos et Orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, II: Cod. 2001-3500, Wien, 1868, 220.

1r–⁠65v

‘… calida natura adhibitis frigidis temperari, ac sicca humidis, humida item siccis, quod ars cura diligenti adhibita procul dubio praestabit… (1v) VI. Tunc dierum prodest et horarum electio… (2r) Ea celi pars que hora nativitatis supra terra ascendit, unde a nostris appellatur ascendens — nec vero nisi ex antecedantibus illorum coniuncti…’

= Giovanni Pontano, Liber commentationum in Centum sententiis Ptolemaei (C.3.16)

, v. 5-50, incomplete on both ends due to missing folia. The text opens towards the beginning of the commentary of v. 5 and ends towards the beginning of the commentary of v. 50. Verba are numbered in the margin. Numerous corrections and additions by Pontano.