PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Venice, Franciscus de Franciscis Senensis, 1594

Title page:

‘Claudii Ptolemaei inerrantium stellarum apparitiones ac significationum collectio. Libellus mire elegans atque ad aeris praevidendas mutationes omnino necessarius, antehac nunquam impressus. A Federico Bonaventura Urbinate latinitate donatus, scholiisque nonnullis illustratus. Item libelli duo, alter ex Columella, alter ex Plinio, excerpti De inerrantium stellarum significationibus. Venetiis MDXCIIII, apud Francisci de Franciscis Senensis.’

Federico Bonaventura’s works of astrometeorology: preface (3-4); Ptolemaica (5-46); Columella, De inerrantium syderum significationibus (47-56); ‘Pliniana anni divisio in partes octo atque inerrantium syderum per eas significationes’ (57-64); Ptolemaica (65-120).

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Exemplar Seville, Biblioteca Universitaria, A Res. 41/6/01(3)

5–⁠46

‘Claudii Ptolemaei inerrantium stellarum apparitiones et significationum collectio, Federico Bonaventura interprete. Inerrantium stellarum apparitiones quot nam habeant differentias quasve causas — in quo dici magnitudo ad horas 15 extenditur. Finis.’

65–⁠120

‘Annotationes in librum Ptolemaei de inerrantium syderum significationibus. Inerrantium stellarum libellum hunc inter Ptolemaei commentarios esse recipiendum nemo est qui dubitare possit — Deinde quod magis est hoc in loco pro occidunt Haedi, legendum oriuntur Haedi, nam et sic Columella et liber a Leonico translatus. Finis.’