LC control no. | n 86136645 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Tetrabiblos |
Variant(s) | Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Quadripartitum Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Tetrabiblos Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Apotelesmatika Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Quadripartite |
See also | Paraphrased as: Proclus paraphrase |
Form of work | Astrological work |
Beginning date | 01 |
Found in | Oxford class. dict. (The Apotelesmatika (or Tetrabiblos)) Megalē hellēnikē enkykl. (Tetrabiblos) LC data base, 8-8-86 (hdg.: Ptolemy, fl. 2nd cent. Quadripartitum; usage: Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, or Qaudripartite) Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in the translation of William of Moerbeke, 2015: page 56-57 (paraphrase attributed to Proclus; there are no arguments to attribute it to Proclus; it is transmitted anonymously in the oldest manuscript (Vat. gr. 1453), dating from the 10th century and a later hand added in the margin the attribution to Proclus; the intention of the author was to provide a more readable and understandable version of the often obscure and tortured phrasology of Ptolemy; editors of the present work refer to this text as the Proclus Paraphrase) |