PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W 108 III

Date:

s. XVex.

Or.:

Italy.

Prov.:

Alfonso, Duke of Calabria; Thomas Phillipps (no. 7084).

Parchment, I+306 f., a very neat hand, deluxe MS with numerous painted initials.

Giovanni Pontano’s works: De principe (Iv-10v); De obedentia (11v-60v); De fortitudine (61v-101v); Charon (102r-121v); Antonius (122r-157r); Ptolemaica (157v-261r); De aspiratione (261v-306v). Blank: Ir, 11r, 61r.

Bibl. P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, III, London-Leiden, 1983, 197; G. Germano, Il De aspiratione del Pontano nel codice W 108 III della Ch. Beatty Library di Dublino in Nuovi studi in onore di Mario Santoro, eds M. C. Cafisse et al., Napoli, 1989, 43-58; M. Rinaldi, Le Commentationes in Ptolemaeum di Giovanni Giovano Pontano: fonti, tradizione e fortuna del Centiloquio pseudo-tolemaico dalla Classicità all’Umanesimo, PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, 2002, 111 (no. 9).

157v–⁠261r

‘Ioannis Ioviani Pontani liber primus commentationum in centum sententiis Ptolomei ad ill<ustrissimum> principem Federicum ducem Urbini feliciter incipit. (158r) Tametsi publicarum rerum administratio, bellique gerendi cura deterrere me iure possent, Federice dux fortissime… (158v) Textus Ptolemei. A te et a scientia, fieri enim nequit ut qui sciens est particulares rerum formas pronuntiet… Commentario. Nec medici, nec moralis philosophi sola est cognitio, sed quaedam etiam operatio — tum stellarum radii vel trahentes eas, vel impellentes pro qualitate aspectus et virium efficatia. F<inis>.’