PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1527

Title page:

‘Cla<udii> Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e Graeco translatae. XII Romanorum menses in veteribus monumentis Romae reperti. Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidii Fastorum libris excerpta. Antwerpiae apud Ioannem Grapheum, anno M.D.XXVII.’

Calendars: Ptolemaica (A2r-B2v); Romanorum menses in veteribus monimentis Romae reperti (B2v-[B7]v); Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidii Fastorum libris excerpta ([B8]r-[C4]r).

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Exemplar Unknown (Google Books, source not given).

A2r–⁠B2v

‘Cla<udii> Ptolemaei inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e Graeco translatae. Ianuarius. K<al>. Sol elevari incipit, longiusculi fiunt dies, Aquila et Corona occidunt, tempestatemque efficiunt. IIII. Sol magis ascendit, Cancri medium occidit, ventique ponunt — (December) XI. Aquila exoritur vesperi. X. Capella matutino emergit. Reliquum deficit.’

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes (B.13)

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