PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Isaac Argyros, 〈Paraphrasis in Anonymum commentum in Quadripartitum〉

Madrid, UC-BH, cod. 122 · 44v

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Cum ea itaque prognosticatio, que per astronomiam fit in duas maximas et precipuas partes sit divisa, ac primaque sit ac magis generalis, que secundum omnes gentes et regiones aut urbes est accepta, que vocatur universalis, secunda vero et specialior sit ea, que circa ununquanque hominem versatur, que que genethlialogica nominatur, conveniens ut putamus