Albubather
Subtitle: et Centiloquium divi Hermetis
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 610, item 2
Publisher: Io. Baptistam Sessa
Published: 1501
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Translated from: ara; grc
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Astrology; Early works to 1800; Medieval Astronomy; Arab Astrology
Other titles: Liber nativitatum.; De nativitatibus.; al-Mughnī fī al-mawālīd.; Kār-i mihtar.; Almansoris Judicia seu propositiones Incipiunt capitula stellarum oblata regi Magno Saracenorum ab Almansore Astrologo.
Notes: Includes index (leaf 23)

Preface by A. Laurus de Palatiis.

T.p. ill with Abu Bakr surrounded by zodiacal and allegorical figures.

Imprint from colophon: "Impressum Venetijs per Io. Baptistā Sessa anno Domini 1501. dies. 23. Februarij."

"Albubather" is Abū Bakr's Liber nativitatum (also known as De nativitatibus) translated by Canonicus Salio, dated Padua 1218. Translation of al-Mughnī fī al-mawālīd, an extract from a sort of astrological encyclopedia to which the author gave the Persian name Kār-i mihtar. Cf. Encycl. of Islam, new ed., III, p. 835.

Centiloquium, variously ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus and Claudius Ptolomaeus, appears here in version by Stephen of Messina.

"Almansoris Judicia seu propositiones ... ab Almansore Astrologo ... a Platone Tyburtino translata", by unidentified author (leaves 26-28). Cf. Sarton, Introd. to the hist. of science, v. II (1), 1931, p. 178.