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

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio ArC Al434 485pb
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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

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