PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516

Title page:

‘Cla<udii> Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e Graeco translatae. XII Romanorum menses in veteribus monimentis Romae reperti. Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidii Fastorum libris excerpta. P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib<ri> VI, Tristium lib<ri> V, De ponto lib<ri> IIII, In Ibin, Ad Liviam. Aldus.’

Last page:

‘Venetiis in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri mense Ianuario M.D.XVI.’

Classics: Ptolemaica (I/2r-11r); Romanorum menses in veteribus monimentis Romae reperti (I/11v-17r); Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidii Fastorum libris excerpta (I/17v-21v); Ovid’s Fasti and other works (II/1r-227v).

Bibl. EDIT16: CNCE 47168

Exemplar Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, R 33749

I/2r–⁠11r

‘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. IIII. Sol magis ascendit, Cancri medium occidit, ventique ponunt — (December) XI. Aquila exoritur vesperi. X. Capella matutino emergit. Reliquum deficit.’