PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Florence, Philippus Junta, 1520

Title page:

‘Centum Ptolemaei sententiae ad Syrum fratrem a Pontano e Graeco in Latinum translatae atque expositae. Liber etiam de Luna imperfectus.’

Last page:

‘Florentiae per hæredes Philippi Iuntæ, anno domini M.D.XX, die sextadecima Iulii, Leone X Pont<ifice> Max<imo>.’

Giovanni Pontano’s complete works, vol. V: Ptolemaica (2r-144r); De Luna fragmentum (144v-146v); letter to Pietro Salvatore Valla, 1 January 1460 (147r-148r).

Bibl. EDIT16: CNCE 28755

Exemplar Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Q.VIII.223 (except for front page, seen in the exemplar of Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale)

2r–⁠144r

‘Ioannis Ioviani Pontani commentationum in centum sententiis Ptolemaei ad Federicum Urbini ducem liber primus. Tametsi publicarum rerum administratio, bellique gerendi cura deterrere me iure possunt, Federice dux fortissime… (3r) Ptolemaeus. A te et a scientia, fieri enim nequit ut qui sciens est particulares rerum formas pronuntiet… Pontanus. Nec medici, nec moralis philosophi sola est cognitio, sed quaedam etiam operatio — tum stellarum radii vel trahentes eas, vel impellentes pro qualitate aspectus et virium efficatia.’