Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus Henry Bate S Latin Versions Of Abraham Ibn Ezra S Astrological Writings

The present volume focuses on Henry Bate, the first scholar to bring Ibn Ezra’s astrological work to the knowledge of Latin readers, and offers critical editions of all six of Henry Bate’s complete translations of Ibn Ezra’s astrological writings.

The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of Liber nativitatum (Book of Nativities) and Liber Abraham Iudei de nativitatibus (Book on Nativities by Abraham the Jew), two astrological treatises in Latin that were written by Abraham Ibn Ezra or attributed to him, and whose Hebrew source-text or archetype has not survived.

The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of the Liber electionum, the Liber interrogationum, and the Tractatus particulares, written by or attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra.

This volume makes available two hitherto unpublished Latin texts on astronomical tables, written by Abraham Ibn Ezra and Robert of Chester, which together shed new light on the mid-twelfth-century assimilation of Graeco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in Christian Europe.