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viro dissentire. 104. B?: Semproniensis a. 123. meis a: mei y. 104. Middelburgus] Paul of Middelburg (1446—14 Dec. 1534), after education at Bruges and Louvain, was appointed to the chair of astronomy at Padua a. 1479, for which year he issued a Prognosticon (Copinger 4034). There are also annual prognostications by him for the years 1480-4, one dedicated to Duke Frederick of Urbino. He had probably returned to the Netherlands by 1484, when Leeu printed for him Prenostica ad viginti annos duratura at Antwerp. In the same year with an Epistola apologetica (Copinger 4036) addressed to the Doctors of Louvain he engaged in a controversy de anno dominice passionis, Louvain, John of Westfalia ; in which he was opposed by Peter de Rivo, Dr. of Law in the University. On his appointment in 1494 to the see of Fossombrone, near Urbino, he was summoned to Rome, where he laboured hard to promote the reform of the calendar. The work alluded to here, Paulina, de recta Paschae celebratione, was published, together with a treatise on the precise date of the Crucifixion, by Oct. Petrutius, Fossombrone, 8 July 1513. On the election of Clement vir he dedicated to him a Prognostic for 1524; in the same year ho resigned his see. See D. Marzi, La Questione della Riforma del Calendario nel Quinto Concilio Lateranense, Florence (Pubblic. del R. Istituto), 1896 ; where Paul’s life by Bern. Baldi (1553—1617) is printed for the first time.
