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Capitula Almansoris Notice by David Juste Author and origin: unknown. Translation: Plato of Tivoli with the help of Abraham Bar Hiyya, 1136. Significance: the Capitula (or Iudicia) Almansoris are preserved in over forty manuscripts and a dozen printed editions from 1481 to 1674. Contents: C ollection of 150 astrological aphorisms of the same kind as the Centiloquium of pseudoPtolemy and Hermes. Reproduction: Basel, Iohannes Hervagius, 1533, second part, pp. 93110 (pp. 99108 are missing due to a wrong pagination, but this does not affect the text) [Warburg FAH 750]. Title : Almansoris astrologi propositiones, ad Saracenorum regem. Inc.: ‘Aphorismorum compendiolum mi rex petiisti, ut tuis satisfaciam votis, laborem nequaquam subire recusavi. Scripsi aequo animo accipias quaeso. I. Signorum dispositionum, ut dicam, ab Ariete…’ [TK, 113]. Expl.: ‘… dabit fortitudinem, et regnum in quo nulla fiet iniustitia.’ Bibliography: F.J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation. A Critical Bibliography, BerkeleyLos Angeles, 1956, pp. 132134 (nr. 1); J.C. Vadet, ‘Les aphorismes latins d’Almansor. Essai d’interprétation’, Annales Islamologiques, 5, 1963, pp. 31130.

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Page 1: Capitula Almansoris - Warburg Institute · Capitula Almansoris Notice by David Juste Author and origin: unknown. Translation: Plato of Tivoli with the help of Abraham Bar Hiyya, 1136

Capitula Almansoris Notice by David Juste

Author and origin: unknown.  Translation: Plato of Tivoli with the help of Abraham Bar Hiyya, 1136. Significance: the Capitula (or Iudicia) Almansoris are preserved in over forty manuscripts and a dozen printed editions from 1481 to 1674. Contents: C ollection of 150 astrological aphorisms of the same kind as the Centiloquium of pseudo‐Ptolemy and Hermes.   Reproduction: Basel, Iohannes Hervagius, 1533, second part, pp. 93‐110 (pp. 99‐108 are missing due to a wrong pagination, but this does not affect the text) [Warburg FAH 750].  Title : Almansoris astrologi propositiones, ad Saracenorum regem. Inc.: ‘Aphorismorum compendiolum mi rex petiisti, ut tuis satisfaciam votis, laborem nequaquam subire recusavi. Scripsi aequo animo accipias quaeso. I. Signorum dispositionum, ut dicam, ab Ariete…’ [TK, 113]. Expl.: ‘… dabit fortitudinem, et regnum in quo nulla fiet iniustitia.’  Bibliography: F.J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation. A Critical Bibliography, Berkeley‐Los Angeles, 1956, pp. 132‐134 (nr. 1); J.‐C. Vadet, ‘Les aphorismes latins d’Almansor. Essai d’interprétation’, Annales Islamologiques, 5, 1963, pp. 31‐130. 

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Page 3: Capitula Almansoris - Warburg Institute · Capitula Almansoris Notice by David Juste Author and origin: unknown. Translation: Plato of Tivoli with the help of Abraham Bar Hiyya, 1136
Page 4: Capitula Almansoris - Warburg Institute · Capitula Almansoris Notice by David Juste Author and origin: unknown. Translation: Plato of Tivoli with the help of Abraham Bar Hiyya, 1136
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