PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Lisbon, Antonius Riberius, 1575

Title page:

‘Pub<lii> Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib<ri> VI, Tristium lib<ri> V, De ponto lib<ri> IIII.’ Ad fastorum explicationem, adiectae sunt inerrantium stellarum singularum significationes, ex Cl<audio> Ptolemaeo. Cum facultate reverendissimorum patrum supremo S. Inquisitionis consilio praefectorum. Olysippone, excudebat Antonius Riberius, expensis Ioannis Hispani Bibliopolae. 1575.’

Classics: Johannes Hispanus, letter to the reader ([Ai]v); Ovid’s Fasti and other works (Aiir-Ziiiir); letter to the reader, dated 17 August 1534, in Lyon (Ziiiiv); Ptolemaica ([Zv]r-[aaiiii]v).

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Exemplar Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, res-2491-p

[Zv]r–⁠[aaiiii]v

‘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. 4. 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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