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BC MS 31

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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BC MS 31/1

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

[14--? ]

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BC MS 31/2

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.2)

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BC MS 31/3

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.3)

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Greek J-6/ARA

Aratou Soleōs Phainomena kai diosēmeia. Theōnos scholia Eratosthenous Katasterismoi... Dionysiou Ymnoi. Accesserunt annotationes in Eratosthenem et hymnos Dionysii

Aratus Solensis; Eratosthenes; Theon of Alexandria

1672

In Greek except for "Annotationes" in Latin.

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BC Incunabula/FIR

Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati : Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phænomena Germanico Cæsare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phænomenon fragmentum Marco. T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Græce[.] Theonis commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phænomena Græce. Procli Diadochi Sphæra Græce[.] Procli eiusdem Sphæra, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete

Germanicus Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D); Theon of Alexandria; Aratus Solensis; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Proclus (410-485); Linacre, Thomas (1460-1524); Negro, Pescennio Francesco (1452-); Rufus, Sextus; Manilius, Marcus; Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Wedelicki, Piotr (1543); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mense octob[ris]. M. ID. [October 1499]

Signatures: [*]⁶ a-g¹⁰ h¹² aa-hh¹⁰ ii-kk⁸ A-D¹⁰ E¹² F⁶ G-M¹⁰ N⁶ ²N¹⁰ O-S¹⁰ T⁸. Imprint from the second colophon on T8r. The first colophon on kk8r reads: Venetiis ...