PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1393

Date:

s. XV2 (between 1473 and 1477, this MS belongs to an early stage of Pontano’s commentary).

Or.:

Naples (corrections and additions in Pontano’s hand).

Prov.:

Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1474-1482); Pope Pius VI.

Parchment, 92 f., a single neat hand.

Ptolemaica (single text). Blank: 2v, 90v-92v.

Bibl. C. Stornajolo, Codices Urbinates latini, I: Codices 1-500, Roma, 1902, 248-249; 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. 8).

1r–⁠90r

‘Ioannis Ioviani Pontani liber primus commentationum in centum Ptolemaei sententiis ad illustrissimum principem Federicum ducem Urbinatem feliciter incipit. Prologus. Tametsi publicarum rerum administratio, bellique gerendi cura deterrere me iure possent, Federice dux fortissime… (3r) Ioannis Ioviani Pontani commentationes in centum Ptolemaei sententiis incipient ad ill<ustrissimum> principem Federicum ducem Urbinatem. Textus Ptolemaei. A te et a scientia, fieri enim nequit ut qui sciens est particulares rerum formas pronunciet… Commentum Pontani. Nec medici, nec moralis philosophi sola est cognitio, sed quedam etiam operatio — septem simul planetarum coniunctione adiuncta. Ioannis Ioviani Pontani liber primus commentationum in centum Ptolemaei sententiis finit. MCCCCLXXVII [this last sentence added by Giovanni Pontano].’