Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus on Elections and Interrogations

A Parallel Latin-English Critical Edition of Liber Electionum, Liber Interrogationum, and Tractatus Particulares. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings, Volume 7
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43143-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 83, 636 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval

As a result of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s increasing popularity after his death, there were repeated waves of translation of collections of his Hebrew astrological treatises into Latin and into the emerging European vernaculars. A study of these versions affords us a golden opportunity to shed light on a significant missing link in our knowledge of Ibn Ezra’s astrological oeuvre. The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of three Latin texts on the astrological doctrines of elections and interrogations, written by or attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Liber electionum, the Liber interrogationum, and the Tractatus particulares.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sela, Shlomo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sela, Shlomo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

General Introduction

Contacts with Christian Scholars in the Twelfth Century

The Ibn Ezra Renaissance in the Latin West

Liber Electionum, Liber Interrogationum, and Tractatus Particulares

I Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Earlier Research on Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Authorship, Links with Ibn Ezra’s Work, and the Dates of Composition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Ibn Ezra’s Approach to Elections in Liber Electionum

Ibn Ezra’s Approach to Interrogations in Liber Interrogationum

The Organization and Contents of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

The Sources of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Special Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Linguistic Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

II Tractatus Particulares

Earlier Research on Tractatus Particulares

Manuscripts, General Features and Transmission of TpA and TpQ

Structure and General Features of TpA and TpQ according to Their Incipits and Explicits

Contents and Sources of TpA and TpQ

General Features of TpH

III Manuscripts and Editorial Principles

Manuscripts for the Critical Edition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum

Witnesses for the Critical Edition of Tractatus Particulares

Editorial and Translation Principles

Part One: Liber Electionum: Latin Text and English Translation

Part Two: Notes to Liber Electionum

Part Three: Liber Interrogationum: Latin Text and English Translation

Part Four: Notes to Liber Interrogationum

Part Five: Tractatus Particulares: Latin Text and English Translation

Part Six: Notes to Tractatus Particulares

Part Seven: Appendices

1 The Debate about Elections

2 The Debate about Interrogations

3 Elections

4 Interrogations

5 Planets, Signs and Horoscopic Places

6 The Modena Fragments of Miv?arim III and She?elot III

7 Passages of She?elot le-Masha?allah in Tractatus Particulares

8 A Section of She?elot le-Talmai and Its Counterpart in Ptolemy’s Iudicia

9 Significationes Planetarum in Domibus Ascribed to Gergis

10 The Account of the Seven Planets in Mishpe?ei ha-Mazzalot

11 Masha?allah’s Book on Reading Thoughts

12 The Section on Elections at the End of Nativitates

13 Fragments of Epistola Argafalau ad Alexandrum

14 English-Latin Glossary

15 Latin-English Index to the English-Latin Glossary

16 Authorities and Sources

17 Literal Renderings in Liber Electionum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra

18 Literal Renderings in Liber Interrogationum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra

19 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Electionum, Miv?arim I, Miv?arim II, and Epitome

20 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Interrogationum, She?elot I, She?elot II, and Epitome

21 Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shlomo Sela is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. With this volume he continues the publication of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s complete works on astrology.