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Nothaft, Carl Philipp Emanuel, "A Thirteenth-Century Latin List of Ptolemaic Coordinates", Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 7 (2022), 1-15.

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This article makes the argument that a Latin table of geographic coordinates, copied in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century (MS Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 211, fol. 260r), is derived from a list excerpted from a Greek manuscript of the Κανὼν πόλεων έπισήμων (« Table of important cities ») in Ptolemy's Handy Tables. Other sources that appear to bear witness to a thirteenth-century dissemination in Italy of geographic data from the Κανὼν include the Summa de astris of Gerard of Feltre (1264/65) and some later coordinate lists contained in fourteenth-century manuscripts.

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