PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

_ (the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
% (the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
%% (two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

At the beginning and at the end, these placeholders are superfluous.

Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 9r

Facsimile
ris tempestates.
VIII
Lunaris defectus in hanc incurrit diem, Centaurus exoritur.
VII
Nebulosus aer et turbulentus existit.
VI
Hoedi exoriuntur et Auster vehemens flat.
V
Virgo desistit emergere, Vergiliae matutino et vesperi apparent, Hoedi cum Sole exoriuntur, ventorum et maris procellae validae fiunt.
IIII
Auster vehemens flat, tempestates horridae.
III
Vergiliae matutino cernuntur, et pluvius flat Auster.
Pr.
Capella emergit usque ad vespertinum, Vergiliarum occasum.

XXX

⟨10⟩ October

K.
Vergiliae in oriente appare incipiunt, Auster flat matutino.
IIII
Iidem austrini flatus et Vergiliarum exortus.
III
Heniochus, id est Auriga, occidit, et ab Aquilone tonat.
Pr.
Hoedi exoriuntur, et pluit.
Non.
Corona emergit et conversio est aestatis.
VIII
Arietis medium occidit cum Scorpione.
VII
Eadem, quae prior, significatio.
VI
Corona cum Hoedis exoritur, aer conturbatur.