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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VIII.66 (3437)

Date:

s. XVex.

Or.:

Italy (autograph corrections by Giovanni Pontano).

Prov.:

Ermolao Barbaro (cf. arms f. 1r).

Paper, 78 f., a single neat hand.

Ptolemaica (single text).

Bibl. J. Valentinelli, Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Codices MSS. Latini, IV, Venezia, 1871, 251 (XI.64); P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, II, London-Leiden, 1977, 228; 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, 110 (no. 4).

1r–⁠78r

‘Iohannis Ioviani Pontani liber primus commentationum in centum sententiis Ptolomei ad ill<ustrissimum> principem Federicum ducem Urbini feliciter incipit. Tametsi publicarum rerum administratio, bellique gerendi cura deterrere me iure possent, Federice dux fortissime… (2r) Textus. A te et a scientia, fieri enim nequit ut qui sciens est particulares rerum formas pronunciet… Commentum. Nec medici, nec moralis philosophi sola est cognitio, sed quaedam etiam operatio — septem simul planetarum coniunctione adiuncta. MCCCCLXXVII.’

= Giovanni Pontano, Liber commentationum in Centum sententiis Ptolemaei (C.3.16)

, Book I (v. 1-50). A few marginal notes by Pontano.