PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Work B.1.6

Pseudo-Ptolemy
Centiloquium (tr. before c. 1250)

This translation is part of Abuiafar Hamet filii Joseph’s commentary on the Centiloquium in the anonymous translation made before c. 1250. See C.3.1.5.