PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Venice, Damianus Zenarius, 1607

Title page:

‘Io<hannis> Antonii Magini Patavini, mathematicarum in almo Bononiensi gymnasio professoris, De astrologia ratione ac usu dierum criticorum seu decretoriorum ac praeterea de cognoscendis et medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium cognitione, opus duobus libris distinctum, quorum primus complectitur commentarium in Claudii Galeni librum tertium de diebus decretoriis, alter agit de legitimo astrologiae in medicina usu, his additur De annui temporis mensura in directionibus et de directionibus ipsis ex Valentini Naibodae scriptis, ad serenissimum Mantuae et Montisferrati principem D. Franciscum Gonzagium. Venetiis, apud haeredem Damiani Zenarii, MDVII. Superium permissu & privilegiis.’

Last page:

‘Venetiis, MDCII. Apud Bartholomeum Rodellam, haeredem Damiani Zenarii. Ad Salamandrae signum.’

Giovanni Antonio Magini, De astrologia ratione: dedicatory letter to Francesco Gonzaga, prince of Mantua and Montferrat, dated 24 January 1607 (a2r-[a4]r); preface to the reader ([a4]v-[b4]v); Auctores qui ex professo de astrologia medico necessaria conscripserunt atque de diebus decretoriis astrologice tractarunt (c1r-c1v); chapter index of the commentary on Galen (c2r-c2v); Commentarius in Claudii Galieni De diebus decretoriis librum tertium (1r-38v); Legitimo astrologiae in medicina usu (39r-102v); Ptolemaica (103r-120v).

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103r–⁠120v

‘De annui temporis mensura in directionibus ex commentariis Valentini Naibodae, mathematici eruditissimi super caput decimum Apotelesmatici tertii Claudii Ptolemaei. His adiicio quaestionem, circa quam multos doctos haesitasse cognovi — Haec vero a priore reiecta relinquit arcum huiusce directionis gr<adus> 27.9′.8′′ sicut prius. Finis.’