Lectures on the Quadripartitum given at the University of Pavia probably in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. In the only known manuscript, these lectures are three in number, the first two of which are in Latin, while the third one is in Italian ‘by order of the duke’, i.e. the duke of Milan (f. 360r: ‘Di commissione del duca inconovincio leggere volgare’). These lectures are found among a collection of university lectures on Aristotle’s works. Some of these lectures were given by Cesare Rovida (d. c. 1591), professor of medicine at the University of Pavia, and three of them are dated 1558, 1562 and 1571.

Text ‘Interpretaturi quadripartitam constitutionem Claudi (!) Ptolomei, in qua tradit precepta iudiciorum exercendorum (?) antequam verborum interpretationem aggrediamur, prius nosce oportet novem problemata. Primum, qui nam sit hic Claudus (!) Ptolomeus qui hos libros conscripsit… (358r) Secunda lectio [title in margin]. Ex novem problematibus propositis, duo determinavimus… (360r) Tertia lectio. Di commissione del duca incomincio (?) leggere volgare [in margin]. Poi che noi havemo determinato — al nostro vertice produce maggior calore.’

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