Re: VMs: ALCHABITIUS

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick and Dennis

 

Here I am at the moment, not that succesful but perhaps you will be interested with this funny one:

 

 

YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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Mellon MS 25

 ASTROLOGICAL MISCELLANY, in Latin
 Northern France or Flanders, unsigned, about 1505

 25.1 Alchabitius. Liber isagogicus, translated into Latin by
 Johannes Hispalensis, with the Commentary of Johannes
 Dank de Saxonia, corrected by Bartholomaeus Alten.

Otherwise I am not an expert in astrology but I would say yes Alchabitius astrology is basically a traditional one. However this has to be confirmed. I was unsuccesful yet with my attempt to discover an electronic version of the cat and rat woodcut, sorry for that. The Ratdolt

arms as I saw them are different at least as a printer they are representing a wild man and a star with two hermetic snakes.

Cheers

Jean

Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Jean-Yves,
>
> Is Alchabitius' astrology like that in the VMs?
>
> Dennis
>
> jean-yves artero wrote:
> > 
> > Abû al-Saqr al-Qabîsî 'Abd al-'Azîz ibn 'Uthmân
> > (d. 967), known in the West as Alchabitius or less
> > commonly as Abdilaziz, was the author of a book,
> > Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars,
> > dedicated to the Sultan Sayf al-Dawlah (c.916-967).
> > It became one of the most popular astrological
> > treatises in the West. The Latin translation by John
> > of Seville, Alchabitii Abdilazi liber introductorius
> > ad magisterium judiciorum astrorum, was printed more
> > than a dozen times. Beginning with Erhard Ratdolt's
> > edition published at Venice in 1503, it was often
> > printed with the commentary of John Danko (14th
> >
>  century).
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