PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Rome, Paulus Manutius Aldi, 1562

Title page:

‘Claudii Ptolemaei Liber de Analemmate, a Federico Commandino Urbinate instauratus et commentariis illustratus, qui nunc primum eius opera e tenebris in lucem prodit. Eiusdem Federici Commandini liber De horologiorum descriptione. Romae, M.D.LXII. Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F.’

Federico Commandino, dedicatory letter to Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese (*iir-[*iv]r); Ptolemaica (1r-48v); Federico Commandino, De horologiorum descriptione (49r-93v); subject index ([94]r-[95]r); Errata ([95]v-[96]r).

Bibl. EDIT16: CNCE 27783

Exemplar Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ald. 1.6.42

1r–⁠48v

‘Claudii Ptholemei liber de Analemmate cum commentariis Federici Commandini Urbinatis. Consideranti mihi, Syre, ex angulis, qui circa gnomonis locum accipiuntur, qui rationali consentanei essent… (1v) Commentarius. Antiquos mathematicos de gnomonicis rationibus conscripsisse ex Vitruvio, Ptolemaeoque satis constat — ab ipso Analemmate exordium capientes’ [followed by diagram].

= Federico Commandino, Claudii Ptholemei liber de Analemmate cum commentariis (C.4.2)

, together with the original text in Federico Commandino’s ‘edition’.