Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 585 g
Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 585 g
Reihe: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1
ISBN: 978-94-6270-155-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press
The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246–after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode the fate of one’s own life and its idiosyncrasies. The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher offers the first critical edition of Bate’s Nativitas. An extensive introduction presents Bate’s life and work and sheds new light on the reception and use of Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew texts among scholars in Paris at the end of the 13th century. The book thus provides a major new resource for scholars working on medieval science, autobiography, and notions of personhood and individuality.
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Preface
Table of
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter
1: Manuscripts and text tradition of the Nativitas
1.1.
Manuscripts (David Juste)
1.2. Text
tradition (Carlos Steel)
1.2.1. Th e
two traditions of the Nativitas
1.2.1.1.
Errors in P V (and their copies Par L) against S
1.2.1.2.
Errors in S against PV (and their copies)
1.2.1.3. Par
a copy from V
1.2.1.4. P
and L copies of a common model
1.2.1.5.
Another witness of ß: Munich, BSB, Clm 3857
1.2.1.6. Three
copies of the introduction of the Nativitas
1.2.2. Two
different versions of the revolution of the 35th year
1.2.2.1 Th
e a version
1.2.2.2. Th
e S version
1.2.2.3.
Why are there two versions of the revolutions for the 35th year?
1.2.2.4. Is
S a direct copy of Bate’s autograph?
1.2.3.
Title
1.2.4. Conclusion:
a short text history
1.2.5.
Stemma codicum
1.3. Editorial
principles (Carlos Steel)
Chapter
2: A portrait of Henry Bate (Carlos Steel and Steven Vanden Broecke)
2.1.
Introduction
2.2. Bate’s
biography
2.2.1.
Family background
2.2.2.
Studies in Paris
2.2.3.
Return to the Low Countries: courtly connections, astrology, and an
ecclesiastical career
2.2.4.
After the Nativitas
2.3. Bate’s
self-portrait
Chapter 3: Bate’s astrological and astronomical works (David Juste)
3.1.
Original works
3.1.1. Magistralis
compositio astrolabii (1274)
3.1.2. [Equatorium
planetarum] (date unknown)
3.1.3.
Tables of Mechelen — Tabule Machlinienses (fi rst version before 1280)
3.1.4. Nativitas
(1280-81)
3.1.5. De
diebus creticis periodorumque causis (after 1281, perhaps 1292)
3.1.6.
Commentary on Albumasar’s De magnis coniunctionibus (lost)
[3.1.7.] †Tractatus
in quo ostenduntur defectus tabularum Alfonsi
3.2.
Translations
3.2.1.
Alkindi, Liber de iudiciis revolutionum annorum mundi (1278)
3.2.2.
Abraham Avenezra, De mundo vel seculo I [Sefer ha-'olam
I] (1281)
3.2.3.
Abraham Avenezra, De luminaribus [Sefer ha-me'orot] (1292)
3.2.4.
Abraham Avenezra, Introductorius ad astronomiam [Reshit hokhmah]
(1292)
3.2.5.
Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum I [Sefer ha-te'amim I] (1292)
3.2.6.
Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum II [Sefer ha-te'amim II] (1292)
3.2.7.
Abraham Avenezra, Liber introductionis ad iudicia astrologie [Mishpetei
ha-mazzalot] (1292)
[3.2.8] †De
fortitudine planetarum
Chapter 4: Bate’s Nativitas: the earliest known astrological autobiography
(Steven Vanden Broecke)
4.1.
Purpose
4.2. ‘Autobiography’
and astrological meaning-making in the Nativitas
4.2.1.
Astrological judgment and self-guidance
4.2.2.
Particularity and notions of selfhood
4.2.3. The
inhabitable birth chart
4.3.
Precedents and reception
4.4.
Structure and synopsis of the Nativitas
Chapter 5: Bate’s Nativitas in context (David Juste)
5.1. The Nativitas
in the history of astrology
5.2. Bate’s astrological
sources
5.3. Bate
and the University of Paris
5.3.1.
Introduction
5.3.2.
Peter of Limoges
5.3.3. Other
scholars and opportunities
5.3.4.
William of Saint-Cloud
5.4.
Appendix: Bate’s astrological sources
Chapter 6: Bate and Abraham Ibn Ezra (Shlomo Sela)
6.1.
Introduction
6.2. The
Triple Abraham
6.3.
Abraham Avenezra
6.4.
Abraham Princeps
6.5.
Abraham Compilator
Chapter 7: Basic elements of Bate’s astrological technique (Steven Vanden
Broecke)
7.1. The
four astrological charts of the Nativitas
7.2.
Rectifying the nativity
7.3. Hyleg,
alcochoden, and empirical verifi cation of the rectified nativity
7.4. A
template for analysis: the twelve houses
7.5. Bate’s
procedure of astrological self-analysis: the example of the first house
7.5.1. Complexion
and shape of the body
7.5.2.
Qualities of the soul
7.5.2.1.
Jupiter
7.5.2.2.
Mercury
7.5.2.3.
Interpreting the decans
7.6. Solar
revolutions of the nativity
Index of manuscripts
Bibliography
to the introduction
Nativitas
Magistri Henrici Baten
Conspectus
siglorum
Abbreviationes
Textus
Appendix
i. Versio altera
in codice Segoviensi 84
Appendix
ii. Digressio in
Libro Rationum
Index
fontium ab editoribus allegatorum
Editiones et manuscripta fontium ab editoribus allegata
