PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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فلك النجوم الثابتة‘the sphere of the fixed stars’

Arabic

References: Alm. MS Leiden: I.2:27, f. 3r:37
Translation of:
Greek: ἡ τῶν ἀπλανῶν ἀστέρων σφαῖρα [Alm. Heiberg: I.2, 9:23-24]
Translated into:
Latin: orbis stellarum fixarum [Alm. Gerard: I.2:27, f. 2rb:1]
Synonyms:
كرة الكواكب الثابتة[Alm. MS Tunis: I.2:27, f. 2v:15]
كرة الكواكب الثابتة[PH Morelon: I.5:3, 21:17]