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HALY, filius Abenragel (Albohazen) (965-1039). Liber in iudiciis astrorum, edited by Bartholomaeus de Alten. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1485.
Super-chancery 2° (315 x 209mm). Gothic type, double column, woodcut initials and one woodcut diagram. (Small wormholes in first six quires, minor marginal repairs to last and first two leaves, occasional marginal spotting or light dampstain.) Early 20th-century vellum, titled in ink on spine. Provenance: annotations in a contemporary hand.
FIRST EDITION. Not only does the Liber in iudiciis astrorum, by the Arab astrologer Haly, present a 'complete method of astrology' (Carmody 150.4), it is also a major sourcebook on even earlier astrologers, such as Albumasar and al-Farghani, and their work. The text was translated from the original Arabic into Spanish by Jehuda ben Moses in 1256, and from Spanish into Latin by Aegidius de Tebaldis and Petrus de Regio. This edition also contains a dedicatory letter to the bishop of Augsburg who soon after this date invited Ratdolt, originally from Augsburg, to set up printing there. Ratdolt took up the offer and left Venice in 1486. HC *8349; BMC V, 290; CIBN H-2; Goff H-4.
Super-chancery 2° (315 x 209mm). Gothic type, double column, woodcut initials and one woodcut diagram. (Small wormholes in first six quires, minor marginal repairs to last and first two leaves, occasional marginal spotting or light dampstain.) Early 20th-century vellum, titled in ink on spine. Provenance: annotations in a contemporary hand.
FIRST EDITION. Not only does the Liber in iudiciis astrorum, by the Arab astrologer Haly, present a 'complete method of astrology' (Carmody 150.4), it is also a major sourcebook on even earlier astrologers, such as Albumasar and al-Farghani, and their work. The text was translated from the original Arabic into Spanish by Jehuda ben Moses in 1256, and from Spanish into Latin by Aegidius de Tebaldis and Petrus de Regio. This edition also contains a dedicatory letter to the bishop of Augsburg who soon after this date invited Ratdolt, originally from Augsburg, to set up printing there. Ratdolt took up the offer and left Venice in 1486. HC *8349; BMC V, 290; CIBN H-2; Goff H-4.
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