Kl. Ptolemaiou Megalēs syntaxeōs bibl. 13. Theōnos Alexandreōs Eis ta auta hypomnēmatōn bibl. 11
Subtitle: Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae constructionis, id est Perfectae coelestium motuum pertractationis, lib. XIII. Theonis Alexandrini in eosdem Commentariorum lib. XI
Publisher: Apud Ioannem VValderum
Published: 1538
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: grc; lat
Subjects: Commentaries; Astronomy; Greek Mathematics
Other titles: Megalēs syntaxeōs bibl. 13. Theōnos Alexandreōs Eis ta auta hypomnēmatōn bibl. 11; Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae constructionis, id est Perfectae coelestium motuum pertractationis, lib. XIII. Theonis Alexandrini in eosdem Commentariorum lib. XI; Magnae constructionis, id est Perfectae coelestium motuum pertractationis, lib. XIII. Theonis Alexandrini in eosdem Commentariorum lib. XI
Work titles: Almagest
Notes: First part of title transliterated from Greek.

Greek colophon on page 425 reads: Etypōthē en Basileia, analōmasi kai epimeleia Iōannou Balderou, etei tō apo tēs ensarkou oikonomias tou kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, chiliostō pentakosiostō triakostō ogdoō, maimakteriōnos prōtē.

"First edition of the Greek text [of the Almagest]"--Grant, M. Greek and Latin authors, page 369.

Volume 2, Theonos' commentaries, has new pagination, register, and separate title page reading: Theōnos Alexandreōs Eis tēn tou Ptolemaiou Megalēn syntaxin hypomnēmatōn bibl. 11. = Theonis Alexandrini In Claudii Ptolemaei Magnam constructionem commentariorum lib. XI; Imprint reads: Basileae apud Ioannen Vualderum.

Ptolemy's text edited by Simon Grynaeus; Theonos' Commentaries edited by Joachim Camerarius the Elder.

Authorship of parts 5 and 6 of the Commentarii is ascribed to Pappus of Alexandria. See: Oxford classical dict.ionary.

Printer's device on title page is repeated in a different form on verso of page [3], 5th count, in volume 2.

Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams.

Pagination: volume 1: [16], 327, [1] pages; volume 2:  [8], 275, 267-291, 293-425, [3] pages.

Signatures: volume 1: a⁸ [alpha]-2[delta]⁶ 2[gamma]⁸; volume 2: A⁴ a-2m⁶ 2n⁸ (2n7 verso, 2n8 recto blank).

Errors in paging: volume 2, pages 210, 220, 270, and 274, 2nd count, misnumbered 2001, 202, 279, and 279; volume 2, pages 311 and 410, 4th count, misnumbered 211 and 401.

Woodcut initials.

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, volume V: page 497

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (5e éd.), IV:947

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P2209

Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 718

Purchase; before 1900; 08037.

Parallel title and preliminaries in Latin; text in Greek only.