PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cologne, Johannes Gymnicus, 1576

Title page:

‘P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib<ri> VI a Victorino Giselino emendati. Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Ioannem Gymnicum sub Monocerote, M.D.LXXVI.’

Classics: Ovid’s Fasti and other works (1-167); letter to the reader, dated 17 August <1534, in Lyon> (169); Ptolemaica (180-199). There are no pages 170-179.

Bibl. VD16 O 1617

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, a.lat.a. 1099

180–⁠199

‘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. 4. Sol magis ascendit, Cancri medium occidit, ventique ponunt — (December) 11. Aquila exoritur vesperi. 10. Capella matutino emergit. Reliquum deficit. Finis.’