PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Porrentruy, Joannes Fabrus, 1594

Title page:

‘P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI, Tristium libri V, De ponto libri IIII, quibus Cl<audii> Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes, quod cum fastorum argumento maxime congruere viderentur, in graciam studiosorum praefiximus. Brunntruti, apud Ioannem Fabrum, M.D.XCIIII.’

Classics: Ptolemaica (3-21); Ovid’s Fasti and other works (22-441).

Bibl. VD16 ZV 29852

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Res/A.lat.a. 2618 a

3–⁠21

‘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.’