ALCHABITIUS

Astronomie iudiciarie principia tractans cum Joannis Saxonii commentario ordine textus nuperrime distincto. Additis annotationibus et in margine et in texto atque glossa per magistrum Petrum Turrrellum . . . cum tractatulo de cognoscendis infirmitatibus apprime Medicis necessario & multis authoribus per eundem extracto. Lyon, Guillauyme Huyon for Barthelmy Trot, [c.

      Large criblé initials, diagrams and tables throughout.4to. lxxix, [1] ff. 19th century quarter maroon morocco. 1520.] Alchabitius or 'Abd al- 'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman (d. 967), composed this important astrological work which was translated from the Arabic by Joannes Hispalensis (fl. 1140), and from 1485 it was published with the commentary of Johannes de Saxonia (fl. 1323-1355). The first edition was published in Mantua, by Johannes Vurster in 1473, as Libellus isagogicus and was reprinted by Ratdolt in 1482 and 1485. The work contains a presentation of astronomical practices and materials, with definitions and distinctions and many quotations from the Indians, Ptolemy, Dorotheus of Sidon, Masha'allah and Hermes Trismegistus. This edition is edited by Petrus Turrellus, and appeared at the same time as the Sessa edition of Antonio de Fantis.Baudrier, who dates the edition c. 1519-1523, reproduces the title-page which was issued with Trot's device below which are 3 lines of text; these do not appear on our title-page which has been very skilfully restored so that it is now almost impossible to detect that anything is missing.Stillwell I, 1. Baudrier VIII, pp. 415-417 (wrongly calling for 69 numbered leaves). Not in Adams.