PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 2r

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Claudii Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e Graeco translatae

⟨1⟩ Ianuarius

K.
Sol elevari incipit, longiusculi fiunt dies, Aquila et Corona occidunt, tempestatemque efficiunt.
IIII
Sol magis ascendit, Cancri medium occidit, ventique ponunt.
III
Reliquum Cancri occidit et varius aeris fit flatus.
Pr.
Hyems dimidiata, Aquilones continui, Delphinus cum Cane oriuntur matutino.
Non.
Fidicula exoritur, Aquila occidit, Delphinus totus emergit, ventorumque fit concursus.
VIII
Aquila Vesperi occidit, flat Auster.
VII
Septentriones et Aquilo vehementer flantes concurrunt.
VI
Martis domicilium, Auster et Favonius simul flant, Capricornus emergere incipit, pluviae simul et caligo vespertino.
V
Auster flat cum pluvia.
IIII
Pluvius flat Auster violentior.
III
Septentrio multo imbre et aspera tempestate flat.
Pr.
Auster spirat.
Id.
Astrum obscurum, prima Mali pars occidit,