Sessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show moreSessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show less
Astrology, Astrology, Astrology--Early works to 1500, Astrology, Arab, Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1500, Incunabula, Incunabula--Specimens, BF1714.A6 A28 1500
Bound in vellum with gold tooling by Leighton, Brewer St. W. Third incunabular edition of the principal work of Albumasar (d. 886), the Arabian... Show moreBound in vellum with gold tooling by Leighton, Brewer St. W. Third incunabular edition of the principal work of Albumasar (d. 886), the Arabian mathematician and astronomer whose works exercised a profound influence upon the medieval world view in the occident. His "Flores" are probably extracted from "De magnis coniunctionibus" (cf. DSB I, 35, 1); according to Houzeau/Lancaster, no Arabic original text or manuscript is known. The woodcuts show allegories of the planets and the zodiac, illustrating this astrological florilegium. - First 3 ff. show a faint brownstain; otherwise only very insignificantly browned. A very clean, crisp copy in a beautifully restrained modern binding by Philippe Belz, who took over the Niedrée shop in 1860 and retired in 1880. Main Heritage Vault BF1714.A6 A28 1500 Book Item-ID: i16587844 BIB-ID: 1494557 Also available online. Show less
Astronomy, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, QB23 .A43 1512
Alcabitius. Libellus isagogicus ... ad magisterium judicorum astrorum interpretatus a Joanne Hispalensi scriptumque in eiusdem a Joanne Saxonie... Show moreAlcabitius. Libellus isagogicus ... ad magisterium judicorum astrorum interpretatus a Joanne Hispalensi scriptumque in eiusdem a Joanne Saxonie editum utile serie connexum incipiut. Venice, Melchior Sessa, 1512. Small 4to, 1l + 142 + 1 lea.. with woodcut astronomical diagram on title and printer's device, woodcut diagrams and horoscopes in text, printer's device at colophon, woodcut initials; ownership inscription partially erased from foot of title, single wormhole in outer margin towards the end, soem damp-staining in the lower half; a good copy in contemporary limp vellum; seventeenth-century inscription on fly leaf referring to Welsch's comments on Alcabitius. Abu I-Saqr al-Qabisi's tenth-century text al-Mudkhal, 'Introduction to the Art of Astrology', as translated to Latin in the twelfth century by Johannes Hispalensis, commented upon in the fourteenth century by Johannes Sexonius, and printed in Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century. "The book, as the title indicates, is an introductory exposition of some of the fundamental principles of genethlialogy; its present usefulness lies primarily in its quotations from the Sassanian Andarzghar literature and from al-Kindi the Indians, Ptolemy, Dorotheus of Sidon, Masha'allah, Hermes Trismegistus, and Valens"(DSB). DSB, XI, p. 226; EI, IV, pp. 340-41; Sezgin, VII, pp. 170-1. Adams A21; Carmody p. 146; IA 102. 861; Lalande p. 35; Sander 221. Main Heritage Shelves General QB23 .A43 1512 Book Item-ID: i10136940 BIB-ID: 1015330 Show less
Astronomy, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, QB23 .A43 1512
Alcabitius. Libellus isagogicus ... ad magisterium judicorum astrorum interpretatus a Joanne Hispalensi scriptumque in eiusdem a Joanne Saxonie... Show moreAlcabitius. Libellus isagogicus ... ad magisterium judicorum astrorum interpretatus a Joanne Hispalensi scriptumque in eiusdem a Joanne Saxonie editum utile serie connexum incipiut. Venice, Melchior Sessa, 1512. Small 4to, 1l + 142 + 1 lea.„. with woodcut astronomical diagram on title and printer's device, woodcut diagrams and horoscopes in text, printer's device at colophon, woodcut initials; ownership inscription partially erased from foot of title, single wormhole in outer margin towards the end, soem damp-staining in the lower half; a good copy in contemporary limp vellum; seventeenth-century inscription on fly leaf referring to Welsch's comments on Alcabitius. Abu I-Saqr al-Qabisi's tenth-century text al-Mudkhal, 'Introduction to the Art of Astrology', as translated to Latin in the twelfth century by Johannes Hispalensis, commented upon in the fourteenth century by Johannes Sexonius, and printed in Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century. "The book, as the title indicates, is an introductory exposition of some of the fundamental principles of genethlialogy; its present usefulness lies primarily in its quotations from the Sassanian Andarzghar literature and from al-Kindi the Indians, Ptolemy, Dorotheus of Sidon, Masha'allah, Hermes Trismegistus, and Valens"(DSB). DSB, XI, p. 226; EI, IV, pp. 340-41; Sezgin, VII, pp. 170-1. Adams A21; Carmody p. 146; IA 102. 861; Lalande p. 35; Sander 221. Show less
Astrology, Astrology, Astrology--Early works to 1500, Astrology, Arab, Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1500, Incunabula, Incunabula--Specimens, BF1714.A6 A28 1500
Bound in vellum with gold tooling by Leighton, Brewer St. W. Third incunabular edition of the principal work of Albumasar (d. 886), the Arabian... Show moreBound in vellum with gold tooling by Leighton, Brewer St. W. Third incunabular edition of the principal work of Albumasar (d. 886), the Arabian mathematician and astronomer whose works exercised a profound influence upon the medieval world view in the occident. His "Flores" are probably extracted from "De magnis coniunctionibus" (cf. DSB I, 35, 1); according to Houzeau/Lancaster, no Arabic original text or manuscript is known. The woodcuts show allegories of the planets and the zodiac, illustrating this astrological florilegium. - First 3 ff. show a faint brownstain; otherwise only very insignificantly browned. A very clean, crisp copy in a beautifully restrained modern binding by Philippe Belz, who took over the Niedrée shop in 1860 and retired in 1880. Main Heritage Vault BF1714.A6 A28 1500 Book Item-ID: i16587844 BIB-ID: 1494557 Also available online. Show less
Astrology, Astrology--Early works to 1800, QB26 .M84 1503
OMAR TIBERIADIS. Liber de nativitatibus & interrogationibus. [colophon:] Venice, J. B. Sessa, March 26, 1503. Small 4to, 1 (b.) + 63p + 1 + 1 l(b.... Show moreOMAR TIBERIADIS. Liber de nativitatibus & interrogationibus. [colophon:] Venice, J. B. Sessa, March 26, 1503. Small 4to, 1 (b.) + 63p + 1 + 1 l(b.), with a fine, large allegorical woodcut, and Sessa's cat and mouse device on title, one woodcut diagram, and several tables; old Russian library stamp of the Imperial Library on title and two further leaves; 19th century green glazed paper boards, joints starting. The very rare first edition of the major independents works of Umar al-Tabari, on genethlialogy and astrological interrogations, and the only works of his to be translated into Latin and published in the West. They were "repeatedly quoted by Arabic and Latin writers, and esteemed second only to the work of Mashallah and Albumasar. One point of value was probably the presentation of the doctrines of Dorotheus [of Sidon]" (Carmody). The Arabic version of Dorotheus was due to Omar Tiberiadis. The allegorical woodcut shows Jupiter enthroned presiding over Satrun and Mars, surrounded by clouds, the signs of the zodaic interspersed in the design, the sun and the moon in the top corners. Sezgin, VII, pp. 111-13. Adams O171; Carmody pp. 38-9; Essling 1378; Houzeau & Lancaster 3817 ("tres rare"); Lalande p. 31; Sander 5181; NUC records only one location, University of Arizona, Tucson. Illustrated title page. Edited by Lucas Gauricus. " ... translatus a magistro Salomone de arabico in latinũ adiuuante filio Abaumet iudeo ... currẽte anno ab incarnatione x̃pi. 1217 ... ": ℓ. 29. Main Heritage Display General QB26 .M84 1503 Book Item-ID: i10136988 BIB-ID: 1015334 Show less
