PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Paris, Joannes de Porta, 1519

Title page:

‘Quadripartitum iudiciorum opus Claudii Ptolemei Pheludiensis ab Ioanne Sieurreo Brittuliano Bellovacensi p<er>belle recognitum.’

Last page:

‘Venundantur Parhisiis in edibus Ioannis de Porta in vico Sancti Ioannis Lateranensis sub signum dive Virginis Marie et in vico Cirhare in officina libraria vico Mathurinorum directe opposita.’

Ptolemaica (single text).

Bibl. ---

Exemplar London, British Library, General Reference Collection 531.g.2.(5.)

IIr–⁠LIIv

‘([II]r) Ad strennuum equitem auratum Seraphinum Tyllettum prothonatorium et christianissimi regis secretarium supremeque curie parlamentee civilem grapharium Ioannis Sieurrei Brittuliani Bellovacensis in Quadripartiti Ptolomei recognitionem prefatio. Felices essent artes magnifice Seraphine — ([II]v) Ex edibus nostris Navarricis anno ab uberibus Marie millesimo quingentesimo decimonono, undecimo kalendas Octobris, Sole septimum Libre radiante. (IIIr) Primus tractatus. Capitulum primum primi tractatus libri quadripertiti Ptolemei in collectione intellectus scientie iudiciorum astrorum. Caput primum. Rerum, Iesure, in quibus est prenosticabilis scientie stellarum perfectio magnas et precipuas duas esse deprehendimus — (LIv) hoc in loco huic libro finem imponere non incongruum existimavimus. Explicit liber quadripartiti Ptholomei. (LIv) Tabula capitulorum Quadripartiti Ptholomei… (LIIr) Habes, candide lector, hoc in loco que calcographi…’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Plato of Tivoli) (A.2.1)

. Dedicatory letter, [II]r-[II]v; Book I, IIIr-XVr; II, XVr-XXVIr; III, XXVIr-XLIIr; IV, XLIIr-LIv; chapter index, LIv-LIIr; Errata, LIIr-LIIv.