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Alcabitius. 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 |
