PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1545

Title page:

‘P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib<ri> VI, quibus Cl<audii> Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes, quod cum fastorum argumento maxime congruere viderentur, in gratiam studiosorum praefiximus. Tristium lib<ri> V. De ponto lib<ri> IIII. Apud Seb<astianum> Gryphium, Lugduni, 1545.’

Classics: Ptolemaica (2-20); Ovid’s Fasti and other works (21-).

Note I have seen only samples of this edition online (title page and sig. 2 and 20-21), but it is likely to be identical to eds Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1547 and Lyon, Sebastianus Gryphius, 1554 (see), which have the same title page.

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2–⁠20

‘Cl<audii> 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.’