PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Basel, Henricus Petri, 1538

Title page:

‘P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib<ri> VI, Tristium lib<ri> V, De ponto lib<ri> IIII, praeterea 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. Basileae in aedibus Henrici Petri.’

Last page:

‘Basileae ex aedibus Henrici Petri, mense Martio M.D.XXVIII.’

Classics: Ovid’s Fasti and other works (3-405); Ptolemaica (405-423); Romanorum menses in veteribus monimentis Romae reperti (424-435); Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidii Fastorum libris excerpta (436-444).

Bibl. VD16 O 1517

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, a.lat.a.993#Beibd.1

405–⁠423

‘Cl<audii> 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.’