PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Florence, Biblioteca Marucelliana, A 109

s. XVII.

Or.:

probably Tuscany.

Paper, 142 f., one main hand.

Personal notebook made of texts and notes dealing with various subjects in Latin, Greek and Italian. The Ptolemaic section (21v-23r) is found between ‘Eloquentia rediviva. Gloriam candidissimam illam honeste mentis facem…’ (3r-21v) and Hippocrates’s Lex, in Greek (23r-28r). The author left a table of contents of the MS (1r) and a catalogue of his books (31r-45r, referred to as ‘Catalogo di libri mei’ in the table of contents).

Bibl. Inventario dei manoscritti della R. Biblioteca Marucelliana (handwritten catalogue), I (not seen).

21v–⁠23r

‘Ex Ptolemeo de Analemmate. Quoniam igitur dimensiones quae in unaquaque mole insunt terminatas esse oportet et positione et multitudine sicut et magnitudine ex omnibus autem declinationibus que fiunt ad rectos angulos — reliquos parallelos Graeci men… (?) … (?).’