Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)
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Title: Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)
Other titles: Almagest
Classmark: BC MS 31
Creator(s): Ptolemy(Author); Theon of Alexandria(Other); Porphyry (234-305)(Other); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos(Other)
Related people: Theon; Porphyry; Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos
Publication city: [S.l]
Date(s): [14--? ]
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Size and medium: 3 vols
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/627526
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
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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 Syntaxis by Theon of Alexandria (c. 4 AD). Volume 2 contains an astronomical treatise in 38 chapters. The chapter headings suggest that it is a compendium of Ptolemaic astronomy. Volume 3 contains a compilation of astrological and astronomical extracts. It includes material from the introduction to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos by Porphyry (c. 3 AD), epitomes of the Apotelesmatica of Hephaestion of Thebes (c. 4 AD), and the commentary on Paul of Alexandria (c. 4 AD) attributed to 'Heliodorus'. There is also anonymous material, and an (unpublished?) work by the Byzantine mathematician Nicolaus Artabasdos Rhabdas (c. 14 AD).
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