tia00460000

Text-inc Id:

tia00460000

Bod-inc Id:

A-201A

Headings:

Alfraganus Compilatio astronomica.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r [List of contents.]
3. a3r Alfraganus (A mad Ibn-mu ammad Al-farghânî): Compilatio astronomica. [Translated from the Arabic by Johannes Hispalensis. Apparently edited by a member of the Eremita family of Ferrara.] Incipit: ‘[N]umerus mensium Arabum et Latinorum est duodenus: menses Arabum incipiunt ab Almuharam . . .’ Explicit: et lune quod sufficiat See Thorndike–Kibre 960, and Carmody 113-5, no. 17.1(a). For the suggestion of the identity of the editor see BMC, also Carmody 114.

Imprint:

Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, 3 Sept. 1493. 4°.

Collation:

a–c⁸ d⁶. A woodcut on a1v showing Alfraganus and ‘Heremita', probably a member of the Eremita family, of Ferrara: see BMC; eight other schematic woodcut diagrams.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00460000 GW 1268; HC *822; Goff A‑460; BMC VI 605; Pr 5753; BSB‑Ink A‑310; CIBN A‑245; Sander 279; Sheppard 4774. LCN: 14532985

Copies:

1. A-201A(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Theodoricus Haghen, Prognosticum stellare. Utrecht: Hermannus Borculous, 1552;
   2. Tabula ascensionum obliquarum. Tübingen: Abdias Wicknerus, 1561;
   4. Auger Ferrier, A Learned Astronomical Discourse of the Judgement of Nativities. London: R. Cotes, 1642 (Wing F820). Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf. Size: 196 × 149 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 186 × 141 mm. Running item numbers in black ink in the upper margin. Manuscript table of contents, in Ashmole's hand, on the recto of the front endleaf. Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand in item 4. Provenance: William Lilly (1602-1681); inscription on A1r of item 1: ‘Lillius Astrologus 1642/3'. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. SHELFMARK: Ashm. 124(3).