Liber quadripartiti Ptolemei id e[st] quattuor tractatuu[m] : in radicanti discretione p[er] stellas d[e] futuris [et] i[n] hoc mundo co[n]structio[n]is [et] destructio[n]is co[n]tinge[n]tib[us] cuius in p[ri]mo tractatu su[n]t �
Imprint:
Venice: Per Erhardum Ratdolt de Augusta, die 15 mensis Ianuarij 1484.
Comments
and Notes:
ISTC uses author form: Ptolemaeus, Claudius.Title from incipit (leaf a2 recto).
Includes the commentary on Ptolemy's Centiloquium, spuriously attributed to "Haly" [i.e. `Ali ibn Ridwan].
Imprint from colophon (leaf h12 recto), which begins: Liber Ptholomei quattuor tractatuum: cum Centiloquio eiusdem Ptholomei: [et] co[m]mento Haly, feliciter finit ...
Signatures: a-g8 h12.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Text in double columns; 42 lines per page.
Leaf a1 recto is blank; astrological diagram on a1 verso.
Initials; incipit (leaf a2 recto) printed in red.
Bookplate: GR [unidentified].
Bookplate: Alfred Trapnell.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Ms. annotations in an old hand.
Blind- and gilt-stamped full leather binding, raised bands, gilt-ruled leather doublures; signed with monogram "DC" [?], 1902.
Binder's cover title: Liber Ptholomei quattuor tractatuum.