PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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New Online Texts (April 2021)

Ptolemy, Quadripartitum, tr. Hernán Núñez de Guzmán (A.2.8), by Beatriz Alfaro Pérez: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/211/305/transcription/1#1r

Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium, tr. Plato of Tivoli (B.1.2) by Jean-Patrice Boudet, Luc Ferrier and Richard Lemay: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/484/665/transcription/1#2r

Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (B.12), by David Juste: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/60/106/transcription/1#1r