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Ptolemaeus

Arabus et Latinus

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Work C.1.7

Anonymous
Paris Commentary on the Almagest

Text

‘(Paris, BnF, lat. 7266) Ultime hominis promissiones, id est quod ultimo promittitur homini, hoc est amicies… Fiducia est socius etc, id est quando quis affectat aliquid… Securitas solitudinis etc., id est quando aliquis — 99 partes et fac more solito. Ex radicibus, id est pri… (?). Expliciunt notule Almagesti.’

Content

A lemmatic commentary on the complete text of the Almagest in Gerard of Cremona’s translation.

Origin

The only known MS was copied in the early 14th c. This commentary might be related to the Vatican Commentary (C.1.6).

Bibl.

H. Zepeda, The Medieval Latin Transmission of the Menelaus Theorem, PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma at Norman, 2013, 320 n. 619.

Ed.

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MSS
Paris, BnF, lat. 7266

, s. XIV, f. 1v-47vb

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