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viro dissentire.
104. B?: Semproniensis a.
123. meis a: mei y.
104. Middelburgus] Paul of Middel¬
burg (1446—14 Dec. 1534), after educa¬
tion 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) ad¬
dressed 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 Latera¬
nense, Florence (Pubblic. del R. Istituto),
1896 ; where Paul’s life by Bern. Baldi
(1553—1617) is printed for the first
time.