PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Naples, Petrus Maria de Richis, 1513

Title page:

‘Ad Sylvium Pandonium Boviani episcopum Eutichi Augustini Niphi Philothei Suessani ad apotelesmata Ptolemaei eruditiones.’

Last page:

‘Impressum Neapoli per Petrum Mariam de Richis Papiensem, anno domini M.D.XIII, die vero XXIII Aprilis.’

Ptolemaica (single text).

Bibl. EDIT16: CNCE 38270

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Ph.sp. 31#Beibd.1

Iv–⁠XXXXIIIv

‘([I]v) Praefatio. Consideranti mihi praesul dignissime ac Pandonii generis unicum decus quonammodo auditoribus meis bonarum atrium ac medicinae studiosis prodesse possim… (IIr) Ad Sylvium Pandonum Boviani episcopum Augustini Niphi Suessani eruditionum ad Apotelesmata liber primus. De potestate planetarum. Sol suapte natura calefaciendi atque aliqua ex parte exiccandi efficaciam habet… Duo sunt coeli sive luminaria sive lumina quae graece phosphora sive phota dicuntur — tamen usus meus est cum Graeco sine nomine, nam ipse fideliter Ptolomaei verba exposuit brevibus satis. Finis.’

= Agostino Nifo, Ad Apotelesmata Ptolemaei eruditiones (C.2.15)

. Preface, [I]v; Book I, IIr-XXXIr; II, XXXIr-XXXXr; III, XXXXr-XXXXIIIv.