PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 11r

Facsimile
perflant.
Pr.
Aquilo flat prior, gravis et pluviu subsequitur Auster.
Id.
Totus Scorpius exoritur, Auster et Aquilo flant, et pluit.
XIX
Capella occidit.
XVIII
Auster et Aquilo perflant et aeris perturbatio existit.
XVII
Eadem, quae prior, significatio.
XVI
Sol in Capricorno.
XV
Obscurum astrum, et ventorum concursus et pugna.
XIIII
Capella exoritur.
XIII
Aquila cum Capricorno exoritur.
XII
Incipit flare Aquilo, superveniens Auster totum obtinet diem.
XI
Aquila exoritur vesperi.
X
Capella matutino emergit.

Reliquum deficit.