An extensive commentary on the beginning of the Quadripartitum (I.1 and beginning of I.2) in Philipp Melanchthon’s translation (A.2.11). The author and the origin of this commentary are unknown and the only extant manuscript dates from the seventeenth century.

Text ‘(Perugia, BCA, A. 23) Claudii Ptholomaei mathematici operis de iudiciis astrologicis libri quatuor. Liber primus. Praefatio. [text] Duo sunt, Syre, per quae predictiones astrologicae extruuntur, praecipua et maxima. Unum, quod primum ordine est et potestate… [comm.] Commentarius. Hoc est proëmium presenti operis, in quo, quae in — ad terram ceteros …at (?) planetas.’

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