Work A.3.2

Ptolemy
De suppositione planetarum (tr. anonymous, before 1595)

Text ‘(Schweinfurt, SB, Ha 16) Claudii Ptolomei De suppositione planetarum. Suppositiones, Syre, coelestium motuum in Magnae compositionis commentariis methodica ratione tradidimus — Stella autem Borealis termini obliqui circelli tanquam ad sequentia mundi grad. et sexages. Finis nec quicquam reliquum.’

Content First part of Book I only (as in Greek).

Origin Unknown. The only extant MS belonged to Johannes Praetorius, who left a note (f. 9r) saying that this version was sent to him by Herwart von Hohenburg in 1595.

Bibl. P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 693; 450 Jahre Copernicus „De revolutionibus“. Astronomische und mathematische Bücher aus Schweinfurter Bibliotheken. Ausstellung des Stadtarchivs Schweinfurt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bibliotheken Otto Schäfer (21. November 1993 – 19. Juni 1994), ed. U. Müller, Schweinfurt, 1998, 46-47 and 335-336, no. 155 (entries by M. Folkerts). This version is unknown to Ptolemy scholars (see bibliography in A.3).

Ed. ---