Abstract
It has traditionally been the "communis opinio doctorum" that Pappus of Alexandria's Collectio Mathematica (late 3rd century A.D.) was not known during the Latin Middle Ages and that the first translation of Pappus's magnum opus into Latin was that undertaken by Federicus Commandinus, published at Pesaro in 15881 (reprinted at Venice the same and the next year).2 Indeed, this is the conclusion one reaches after examining the standard sources on the history of medieval mathematics. Thus, to mention one instance only, Moritz Cantor in his mammoth Vorlesungen uber Geschichte der Mathematik says :
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