PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549

Title page:

‘Ptolemaei Mathematicae constructionis Liber primus graece et latine editus. Additae explicationes aliquot locorum ab Erasmo Rheinholt Salvendensi. Wittebergae, ex officina Iohannis Lufft, anno 1549.’

Philipp Melanchthon, Greek verses ([A1]v); Erasmus Rheinhold, dedicatory letter to Christoph von Karlowitz (A2r-[A8]v); Ptolemy, Almagest, Book I, Greek (1r-43r); Ptolemaica (44r-123r); Philipp Melanchthon, Latin verses (123v); Errata ([124]v).

Bibl. VD16 P 5201; 450 Jahre Copernicus „De revolutionibus“. Astronomische und mathematische Bücher aus Schweinfurter Bibliotheken. Ausstellung des Stadtarchivs Schweinfurt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer (21. November 1993 – 19. Juni 1994), ed. U. Müller, Schweinfurt, 1998, 210-211, no. 54.

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ESlg/A.gr.b. 3072

44r–⁠123r

‘Primus liber Magnae constructionis Ptolemaei. (45r) Optime mihi videntur hi, qui dextre philosophati sunt, separasse speculativam philosophiae partem ab activa — in qua aequinoctialis nusquam ad horizontem inclinat. Ad lectorem studiosum. Deo iuvante in proxima aeditione hanc institutam explicationem nostram rudiorem perpoliemus, et adiungemus reliqua ex Theone, quae ad Ptolemaei sententiam penitus intelligendam aliquid momenti adferunt, interea bene vale et hisce feliciter fruere. Laus Deo.’