PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Naples, Sigismundus Mayr, 1512

Title page:

‘Pontani commentationes super centum sententiis Ptolemaei.’

Last page:

‘Neapoli. Ex officina Sigismundi Mayr Germani, summo ingenio artificis Ioannetto Salodio, Hieronymo Taegio et Petro Kirchberg ministris, an<no> MDXII, ac fideliter omnia ex archetypis Pontani ipsius manu scriptis, quae Neapoli in bibliotheca divi dominici cuncta servantur. Curavit rem diligenter P. Summontius Petro Rosa, Dionaeo Tornaquintio et Io. Vincentio Summontio coadiutoribus.’

Ptolemaica (single text), preceded by Petrus Summontius’s dedicatory letter to Berardino Sanseverino ([Ai]v) and followed by a poem ([Kvii]v) and Errata ([Kviii]r).

Bibl. EDIT16: CNCE 50483

Exemplar Unknown (Google Books, source not given).

Aiir–⁠[Kvii]r

‘Ioannis Ioviani Pontani commentationum in centum sententiis Ptolemaei ad Federicum Urbini ducem lib<er> primus. Tametsi publicarum rerum administratio, bellique gerendi cura deterrere me iure possunt, Federice dux fortissime… (Aiiv) Ptolemaeus. A te et a scientia, fieri enim nequit ut qui sciens est particulares rerum formas pronuntiet… Pontanus. Nec medici, nec moralis philosophi sola est cognitio, sed quaedam etiam operatio — tum stellarum radii vel trahentes eas, vel impellentes pro qualitate aspectus et virium efficatia. Finis.’