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Zael,IntroductoriumNoticebyDavidJusteAuthor:Sahlb.Bishr(Baghdad,firsthalfoftheninthcentury).

Originaltitle:manydifferenttitlesinArabicmanuscripts(seeSezgin).Translation:translatorunknown;theworkalreadyexistedisLatininthetwelfthcentury.

Significance:intheLatintradition,theIntroductoriumisthefirstofaseriesoffivetreatises

dealingaltogetherwiththewholescienceofastrology(I:Introductorium,II:Quinquaginta

precepta,III:Deinterrogationibus,IV:Deelectionibus,V:Libertemporum).Thiscorpusis

extant,atleastinpart,inoverfiftymanuscriptsandsevenprintededitionsfrom1484to1551.

Contents:ageneralintroductiontotheprinciplesofastrology,includingthenature,classificationsandsubdivisionsofthesignsofthezodiac,thetwelvehouses,theaspects,as

wellasadetailedexaminationofanumberofconfigurationsofthehoroscopeinvolvingthe

planets.

Reproduction:???,sig.a1r[b4r][WarburgFAH850]

Title:Deprincipiisiudiciorumastrologie.IntroductoriumZahelisYsmaelite.

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12etexeis6suntmasculinaet6feminini[TK,1411:Scitoquod].

Expl.:etcumfueritcumfeminisgaudetinpartefemininapropterdiversitatemhorum

planetarumeteorumdomorum.

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Zael,QuinquagintapreceptaNoticebyDavidJuste

Author:Sahlb.Bishr(Baghdad,firsthalfoftheninthcentury).

Originaltitle:belongstoZaelsIntroductoriuminArabicmanuscripts(seenoteonZaelsIntroductoriumandSezgin).

Translation:translatorunknown;theworkalreadyexistedisLatininthetwelfthcentury.

Significance:intheLatinandArabictraditions,theQuinquagintapreceptaformthesecond

partofZaelscorpus(seedescriptionofZaelsIntroductorium).

Contents:collectionof50astrologicalrules.

Reproduction:???,sig.[b4r][c4r][WarburgFAH850]

Title:Incipiuntprecipuaiuditiaetsuntquindecim.

Inc.:PrimumdereceptionedispositionisperLunam.ScitoquodsignificatrixidestLuna

cuiuscirculusestomniumplanetarum[TK,1411:Scitoquod].

Expl.:causamdequainterrogat,gravisenimeritilli.Scitohoctotum.

Bibliography:F.J.Carmody,ArabicAstronomicalandAstrologicalSciencesinLatinTranslation. ACriticalBibliography,BerkeleyLosAngeles,1956,pp.4041(nr.1);F.Sezgin,GeschichtedesarabischenSchrifttums,VII,Leiden,1979,pp.125126(nr.1).

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