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Charles
Burnett, Keiji Yamamoto and Michio Yano, eds.
Al-Qabisi:
The Introduction to Astrology; Editions of the Arabic and Latin texts
with an English Translation.
London:
Warburg Institute, 2004.
Studies and Texts 2 (ISSN 1471-5841).
ISBN
085481132X.
viii,515pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £50.00
In late
10th-century
Aleppo, Alcabitius wrote a concise introduction to the craft of the
judgements
of the stars, drawing upon a wide range of Greek, Indian, Persian and
Arabic
sources. John of Seville's twelfth-century Latin translation led to
"Alcabitius's"
work becoming the standard introduction to astrology in Western Europe.
This
new book
gives the first critical editions of the Arabic and Latin texts with an
annotated English translation. It also includes: catalogues of all the
manuscripts of the known medieval versions of the work and of the
Renaissance
editions of the Latin text; a citation of the work in Byzantine Greek;
an edition of another astrological work, On the Conjunctions of the
Planets,
attributed in Latin to Alcabitius, and comprehensive Arabic-Latin and
Latin-Arabic
glossaries.
This
book
should
provide the foundation for any future study of Alcabitius and his
influence.
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