Preclarissimus in judiciis astrorum Albohazen Haly filius Abenragel nouiter impressum & fideliter emendatum &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063.

Contributor:

Alten, Bartholomäus, active 1485-1491.

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1489-1505.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Arabic Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bāriʻ fī aḥkām al-nujūm. Latin

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Astrology, Arab.

Penn Provenance:

Raffaelle, Giovanni Battista (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rocca, Joannes Baptista de (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Contardi (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

98 leaves ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Preclarissimus in iudiciis astrorum Albohazen Haly filius Abenragel noviter impressum & fideliter emendatum &c

Fingerprint:

beor nesi iten &pEt (3) 1503 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : Impressus arte & i[m]pe[n]sis per Jo. Bapti. Sessa, Anno d[omi]ni MCCCCCIII die iiii Aprilis [1503]

Notes:

Translation of: Al-bāriʻ fï aḥkām al-nujūm.

Printer's name and date from colophon on leaf 98.

Edited by Bartholomaeus de Alten de Nusia; translated by Aegidius de Tebaldis.

Printed in double columns.

"Bene reuisus & fideli studio eme[n]dat[us] per d[omi]n[u]m Bartolomeu[m] de Alten de Nusia germanum artium & medicine doctorem excellentissimum"--Colophon.

Large woodcut illustration and printer's device on title page, along with the signs of the zodiac; woodcut initials.

Signatures: A-Z⁴ Et⁶.

Leaf 95 misnumbered 93.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has inked through ms. ownership inscription "Di Gio. Batt[ista] Raffaelle [...]" on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscriptions: "[...] Contardi" and "Io[anne]s Bapt[ist]a Ma. de Rocca Sac. Inq. Reuisor" on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has copious ms. notes and annotations in different hands throughout.

Cited in:

Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie, 3870

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 19

Lalande, J.J. le F. de. Bib. astronomique, p. 31

OCLC:

828423108