| AUTHOR |
TITLE, CITY, IMPRINT |
YEAR |
IMAGE |
DESCRIPTION, NOTES |
LINK |
| 1- Reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, catalogues ...) |
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (1820-1888) &
Albert Lancaster (1849-1908) |
Bibliographie générale de l'Astronomie jusqu'en 1880 (General Bibliography of Astronomy to the Year 1880)
Bruxelles, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1887-1889, 2 vols. ; ed. David Dewhirst, London, The Holland Press, 1964 |
1887
↓
1964 |
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A history of astronomy and astrology, and a rather precious
catalogue. See especially sections 2 (astrology) and 6 (ephemerides and
almanacs). Many German books. |
 
Carnegie Mellon University
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Vol.1-A
Vol.1-B |
| August Pauly (1796-1845) & Georg Wissowa (1859-1931) (éd. et al.) |
Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Stuttgart, 1894-1978, 83 vols. |
1894
↓
1978 |
* |
Inescapable reference book of which there is a light version. The article "Astrology" by Ernest Riess dates from 1896. Numerous contributions by Wilhelm Gundel.
16 volumes are available on Internet Archive. |
Internet Archive
Vols. 1-16 |
Frederick Leigh Gardner
(1857-1930) |
Bibliotheca astrologica (A catalogue raisonné of works on the occult science)
London, 1911 ; revised edition by William Wynn Westcott (1848-1925), Hollywood, 1977 ; Whitefish (MT), Kessinger Publishing, 1998 |
1911 |
* |
First catalogue entirely dedicated to astrological works : from Abdylaziz (Alcabitius) to ps.Zoroaster (1340 references). |
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Gardner |
Albert Caillet
(1869-1922) |
Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes
Paris, Lucien Dorbon, 1913, vols 1-3 |
1913 |
* |
First edition in 1912. The most important bibliography on the subject : 11648 entries.
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Gallica
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Caillet1
Caillet2
Caillet3 |
Bryant Tuckerman
(1915-2002) |
Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions 601 B.C. to A.D. 1 at 5-Day and 10-Day Intervals
Volume 56 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1962 ; 1990 |
1962
↓
1990 |
 |
Famous modern tables (geocentric positions of the seven classical "planets" including Moon and Sun) for the period 601 BCE
to CE 1, given for 7 pm local mean time at 45° East (Babylon longitude). Two copies. |
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Tuckerman-1
Tuckerman-2 |
| Herman H. Goldstine |
New and Full Moons 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651
Volume 94 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1973 ; 1994 |
1973
↓
1994 |
* |
May be considered as a supplement to Tuckerman's tables. Two copies. |
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Goldstine-1
Goldstine-2 |
| Owen Gingerich & Barbara Welther |
Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805
Volume 59S of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1983 |
1983 |
* |
* |
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Welther |
| Michael A. Houlden & Francis Richard Stephenson |
A Supplement to the Tuckerman tables
Volume 170 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1986 |
1986 |
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Tuckerman's corrected tables by Houlden & Stephenson. Two copies. |
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Houlden-1
Houlden-2 |
David Pingree
(1933-2005) |
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (CESS)
Volume 213 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1994 |
1994 |
* |
The reference bibliography on "exact sciences" works in Sanskrit, including astrology. |
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CESS |
| Colleen O'Brien |
A guide to Italian Books before 1601 on 35 mm microfilm [and] A guide to French Books before 1601 on 35 mm microfilm
New York, Norman Ross Publishing, 2002 |
2002 |
* |
These collections (although containing many references other than astrological), might be useful : they
include 15th century incunabula and 16th century books in all fields published in outstanding printing
centers (Lyons and Paris, Venice, Rome and Padua), and others. |
New York ULs
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Italian
French |
| Leandro Cantamessa Arpinati |
Astrologia. Opere a stampa (1472-1900)
Firenze, Leo Olschki, 2007, 2 vols. |
2007
↓
2019 |
* |
Cantamessa's bibliography, the most complete on astrology, has been greatly improved and is now online : Bibliografia di opere stampate tra il 1465 e il 1930 di astrologia e che di astrologia trattano, 8986 refs. (03/2019) from Gonzalo de Abarca to Aron Zynthius. See my review. |
Cantamessa
Bibliografia |
| 2- History of astrology (general historical works and conceptions of astrology) |
Lynn Thorndike
(1882-1965) |
The place of Magic in the intellectual History of Europe
Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, New York, Columbia University Press, 1905 |
1905 |
 |
Thorndike's doctoral thesis. See my review. Nobody among our recent historians has been able to surpass him there : "Have we a right to attribute to the minds of that age our definiteness and clarity of thought, our common sense, our scientific spirit? Is it fair to take the words in which they expressed their thought and to interpret these according to our knowledge, our frame of mind ; to read into their words our ideas and discoveries ; to rearrange their disconnected utterances into systems which they were incapable of constructing ; to endeavor by nothing else than a sort of allegorical interpretation to discover our philosophy, our science, our ideals in their writings ?" (pp.108-109) |
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Place1
Place2 |
Lynn Thorndike
(1882-1965) |
A history of magic and experimental science
New York, Columbia University Press, 1923-1934-1941-1958, 8 vols. |
1923
↓
1958 |
 |
Although it includes other material, this colossal study remains the best one ever concerning the history of astrology. From Plinius to John Goad (1686). The first six volumes are online (thanks to the Public Library of India). |
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P. L. India
Thorndike1
Thorndike2
Thorndike3
Thorndike4
Thorndike5
Thorndike6 |
Pierre Duhem
(1861-1916) |
Le système du monde, Histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic
[Paris, Hermann, 1913-1917 & 1954-1959, 5 + 5 vols.] ; new ed. by Olivier Digne, Paris, Hermann, 1979-1988 |
1913
↓
1979 |
* |
On astrology, see mainly vol. 2 (p.267-390) and vol. 8 (p.347-501). The author has chosen to cite anti-astrologers as preferable to astrologers. According to him, astrology's only purpose would have been to prepare the ground for the theory of gravitation (in vol. 8, 1958, p.500-501). |
Gallica
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Duhem Vol.2
Duhem Vol.8 |
| Max Uhlemann |
Grundzüge der Astronomie und Astrologie der alten, besonders der Aegypter
Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1857 |
1857 |
* |
* |
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Uhlemann |
| Louis-Ferdinand Alfred Maury |
La magie et l'astrologie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age ou Étude sur les superstitions païennes
Paris, Librairie Académique, 1860 |
1860 |
* |
Superficial. (Several Google copies : 1, 2, 3, 4.) |
Internet Archive
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Maury |
Theodore Wedel
(1892-1970) |
The mediaeval attitude toward astrology
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920 |
1920 |
 |
From his doctoral thesis of 1918. Incomplete version can be found on Google books. |
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Wedel |
Charles Dupuis
(1742-1809) |
Origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion universelle
[Paris, 1794, 3 vols.] ; new ed. P-R Auguis, Paris, Émile Babeuf, 1822, 7 vols. |
1794
↓
1822 |
 |
Famous theory : the origins of cults and religions are celestial. All religions were veiled astrological systems. See mainly vol. 6 (history of zodiac and constellations). |
Gallica
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Dupuis |
Charles Dupuis
(1742-1809) |
Mémoire explicatif du zodiaque chronologique et mythologique
Paris, Courcier, 1806 |
1806 |
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* |
Gallica
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Dupuis 1806 |
Richard Hinckley Allen
(1838-1908) |
Star Names : Their Lore and Meaning
[1899] ; New York, Dover Publications, 1963 |
1899
↓
1963 |
* |
Compendium on the origins of star names. On Allen's compilation, see Gary Thompson's review. |
Bill Thayer
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Allen 1899
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(limited preview) |
Wilhelm Gundel
(1880-1945) |
De stellarum appellatione et religione Romana
Giessen, Alfred Toepelmann, 1907 |
1907 |
* |
* |
Internet Archive
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Gundel |
Wilhelm Knappich
(1880-1970) |
Geschichte der Astrologie
[Vienna, 1953] ; Francfort, Vittorio Klostermann, 1967 ; 1988 ; 1998 |
1953
1967
↓
1998 |
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Translated in French in 1986. Partial copy of the German version on Google books. |
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Knappich |
Daniel Walker
(1914-1985) |
Spiritual and Demonic Magic: from Ficino to Campanella
London, Warburg Institute, 1958 ; University Park (PA), Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000 |
1958
↓
2000 |
* |
Two partial copies. |
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Walker
Walker2 |
Rupert Gleadow
(1909-1974) |
The Origin of the Zodiac
London, Jonathan Cape, 1968 ; Mineola NY, Dover, 2001 |
1968
↓
2001 |
 |
A good compendium on the subject. French translation in 1971. The first two chapters online. |
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Gleadow |
| Jim Stanley Tester |
A history of Western astrology
Woodbridge, Boydell Press (Boydell & Brewer), 1987 |
1987 |
* |
See my concise review in French : here. Incomplete version can be found on Google books. |
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Tester |
| James H. Holden |
A History of Horoscopic Astrology
1996 ; 2nd edition, Tempe (AZ), American Federation of Astrologers, 2006 |
1996
↓
2006 |
* |
* |
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James |
| 3- Origins of astrology (prehistoric & neolithic cultures, ancient astronomy, Egypt ...) |
| Marcel Baudouin |
"La préhistoire des étoiles"
[1 & 2], in Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, dir. Paul Broca, T 7, 6e série, 1916 ; Paris, Masson, 1917, pp.25-103 & 274-317 |
1916 |
* |
Important article on the Pleiades and the origin of the stellar year (around 38,000 BCE). |
Gallica
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Baudouin |
Alexander Thom
(1894–1985) |
Megalithic lunar observatories
Oxford University Press (US), 1971 |
1971 |
 |
On Lunar observatories in Megalithic Europe. Thom, one of the leaders of archaeoastronomy, gives evidence of Moon and Sun alignments
at its risings and sets at equinoxes, solstices and intermediate points in some megalithic monuments. Only some pages available. |
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Thom 1971 |
| Elizabeth Chesley Baity |
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [with Comments and Reply]
in Current Anthropology, 14.4, Oct. 1973, pp. 389-449 |
1973 |
* |
Not recent, but a good summary of the subject. |
O. A. La Plata
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Baity |
Jean-Baptiste Biot
(1774-1862) |
Mémoire sur le zodiaque circulaire de Denderah
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1844 |
1844 |
* |
First researches on the Dendera zodiac. |
Internet Archive
PDF & DjVu
Biot |
Norman Lockyer
(1836-1920) |
The Dawn of Astronomy
London, Cassell, 1894 |
1894 |
* |
* |
Internet Archive
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Lockyer |
| Marshall Clagett |
Ancient Egyptian Science II (Calendars, clocks, and astronomy)
Volume 214 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1995 |
1995 |
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A synthesis of ancient Egyptian astronomical knowledge. See the relations between the early decanal constellations which
rise on the horizon and the late introduction of zodiacal decans in astrology. |
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Clagett |
Marcel Griaule
(1898-1956)
& Germaine Dieterlen
(1903-1999) |
Un système soudanais de Sirius
Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 20.2, 1950 |
1950 |
* |
* |
Persée
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Sirius |
| 4- Mesopotamian Astrology |
Jules Oppert
(1825-1905) |
"Tablettes Assyriennes"
Journal asiatique, T 18, 4e tri. 1871, p.443-453 |
1871 |
* |
* |
Gallica
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Oppert |
Archibald Henry Sayce
(1846-1933) |
"The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians"
Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, London, vol. 3, 1874, p.145-339 |
1874 |
* |
* |
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Sayce |
| Edward George King |
Akkadian Genesis. Or the influence of early Babylonian religion on the language and thought of Genesis
Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1888 |
1888 |
* |
* |
ETANA
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Genesis |
Morris Jastrow
(1861-1921) |
The religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Boston, Ginn, 1898 |
1898 |
* |
Cf. pp. 328-466 on Babylonian omens, cosmology and astrology. |
Internet Archive
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Jastrow |
Robert Brown
(1844-1912) |
Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians
Oxford, Williams and Norgate, 1899-1900, 2 vols. |
1899
1900 |
* |
On Brown, see G. Thompson : https://members.westnet.com.au/Gary-David-Thompson/page11-35.html |
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Brown1
Brown2 |
| Reginald Campbell Thompson |
The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum
London, Luzac, 1900, 2 vols. |
1900 |
* |
277 reports and letters of royal priests and astrologers : more can be seen in the editions of Waterman (1930), Pfeiffer (1935), Parpola (1970-1983) and Hunger (1992). |
Warburg
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Reports1
Reports2 |
| Emmeline Plunket |
Ancient Calendars and Constellations
London, John Murray, 1903 |
1903 |
* |
* |
Internet Archive
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Plunket |
| Leonard King |
[Mesopotamian Mul.Apin series] : Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Part XXXIII
London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1912 |
1912 |
 |
The famous Babylonian astronomical compilation, and the earliest surviving catalogue of constellations. But mainly a series of "proto-astrological" parapegmata compiled for divination purposes (On the image : constellations within the paths of Anu & Ea, and Venus, Mars, Saturn & Mercury). |
ETANA
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King |
André Florisoone
(1919-1959) |
"Les origines chaldéennes du zodiaque" [and] "Astres et constellations des Babyloniens"
in Ciel et Terre, Vols. 66-67, 1950-1951 |
1950
1951 |
* |
* |
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OChZ
ACdB |
Bartel van der Waerden
(1903-1996) |
Science Awakening #2 : The Birth of Astronomy [Die Anfänge der Astronomie. Erwachende Wissenschaft II]
Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1966 ; Engl. Version, P. Noordhoff [and New York, Oxford University Press], 1974 |
1966
1974 |
 |
Only 30 pages of Van der Waerden's master work on ancient astrology (despite of the title) are available on Google Books. |
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Bartel |
| Simo Parpola |
Mesopotamian Astrology and Astronomy as Domains of the Mesopotamian 'Wisdom'
in Hannes D. Galter (dir.), Die Rolle der Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens, Graz, 1993 |
1993 |
* |
* |
Oracc
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MesopAA |
| Simo Parpola |
"The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy"
in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 52.3, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 161-208 |
1993 |
* |
On the numbers associated to the Gods (Anu, Sin, Marduk, Nabû, etc) and the origin of the Sefirotic tree. |
JSTOR
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Parpola |
Erica Reiner
(1924-2005) |
Astral Magic in Babylonia
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1995 |
1995 |
* |
* |
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Erica |
| Ulla Koch-Westenholz |
Mesopotamian Astrology. An introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestrial Divination
Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995 |
1995 |
 |
"A case study of celestial divination, an analysis of the received traditions as well as a description of astrology in subsequent periods." Some pages on Google books. |
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Ulla-K |
| Francesca Rochberg |
Babylonian Horoscopes
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1998 |
1998 |
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"The first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary." |
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Francesca1 |
| John H. Rogers |
"Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions [and] II. The Mediterranean traditions"
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 108, 1-2, 1998 |
1998 |
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In the sky-map of ancient Babylon, constellations developed into two overlapping traditions: a religious tradition (including zodiacal
constellations), and a farming-calendar tradition (~3200-500 BCE). |
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Rogers I
Rogers II |
Hermann Hunger
& David Pingree
(1933-2005) |
Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Leiden, Brill, 1999 |
1999 |
* |
MUL.APIN translation (pp.57-82). The reference edition remains : "MUL.APIN : An astronomical compendium in cuneiform" by Hermann Hunger & David Pingree (Horn (Austria), Archiv für Orientforschung #24, 1989). The text has been dated from 1400 to 900 BC (see Van der Waerden, 1974), 2300 BC for Werner Papke (1978), 1000 BC (Hunger & Pingree, 1989), and recently from 1370 BC (Brad Schaefer, 2007). But probably the different engraved sections come from different periods. For a good presentation, see Gary Thompson's page. |
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Pingree1999 |
| Noel Swerdlow (ed) |
Ancient astronomy and celestial divination
Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999 |
1999 |
* |
* |
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Swerdlow |
| Daryn Lehoux |
Parapegmata, Astrology, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World
D. TH. University of Toronto, 2000 |
2000 |
 |
Important doctoral thesis on the Parapegmata, "texts and instruments used for tracking cyclical phenomena" (in Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Rome, etc), essentially for astrometeorological purposes. It has been recently published by Cambridge University Press (2007). See also "Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology" (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science). |
National Library of Canada
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Lehoux |
| Jerrold Cooper |
"Assyrian Prophecies, The Assyrian Tree, and The Mesopotamian Origins of Jewish Monotheism, Greek Philosophy, Christian Theology, Gnosticism, and much more"
in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120.3, American Oriental Society, 2000, pp. 430-444 |
2000 |
* |
Review of 'Assyrian Prophecies' (Helsinki, 1997) by Simo Parpola. |
JSTOR
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Cooper |
| Francesca Rochberg |
The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
2004 |
* |
See Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Eleanor Robson, and Hermann Hunger's review. |
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Francesca2 |
| Francesca Rochberg |
In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and its Legacy
Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 6, Leiden, Brill, 2010 |
2010 |
* |
Compendium of articles on Babylonian astrology from 1982 to 2010, reviewed by Lorenzo Verderame of Roma in Aestimatio (8, 2011). |
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Francesca3 |
Alexander Jones
& John M. Steele |
"A New Discovery of a Component of Greek Astrology in Babylonian Tablets: The "Terms" "
New York University, Institute for the Study of Ancient World, ISAW Papers 1, 2011 |
2011 |
* |
The discovery of the "Greek" system of Terms in British Museum's Babylonian tablets (BM 36628+36817+37197 and BM 36323). |
New York University
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Terms |
| 5- Chinese Astrology |
Léopold de Saussure
(1866-1925) |
Les origines de l'Astronomie chinoise
T'oung pao, Leiden, Brill, 1907-1922 ; Paris, Maisonneuve 1930 |
1907
...
1922
↓
1930 |
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A colossal work : the first modern complete essay on history of Chinese astronomy and astrology, initially published in the journal T'oung pao (series 2, vols 8-10-11-12-14-15-20-21) between 1907 and 1922 (parts A to G1 and G2 to I). Incomplete series on Gallica and on Internet Archive : the missing chapter, Le cycle de Jupiter (I. La planète annuaire, ...), can be downloaded on CURA. Saussure shows that the ancient cosmogonical system of China was a metaphysical construction instigated by astrologers, "la plus ancienne conception unitaire, synthétique et déterministe du monde". |
Internet Archive
Gallica
CURA
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Intro: Gallica
A-B: Gallica
C-D-E: I.Arch.
F: Gallica
F: I.Arch.
G1: CURA
G2: Gallica
H: I.Arch.
I: I.Arch. |
Léopold de Saussure
(1866-1925) |
"Le système astronomique des Chinois" [and other articles]
Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, Geneva, 1907, 1919-1920, 1923 |
1907
1919
1923 |
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Several articles published in Geneva : "Prolégomènes d'astronomie primitive comparée", "Le zodiaque lunaire asiatique", "Le système astronomique des Chinois", "Origine babylonienne de l'astronomie chinoise" and "L'origine de la rose des vents et l'invention de la boussole" (Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, 112, 124, 124-125, 128, and 128, 1907-1923). |
Gallica
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Prolégom. 1907
Zodiaque 1919
Système 1919
Système 1920
Origine 1923
Rose 1923 |
Coching Chu
(1890-1974) |
The Origin of Twenty-Eight Mansions in Astronomy
in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 55, 1947 |
1947 |
* |
About the origin of Hindu Nakshatras and Chinese Siu. Chu, after Saussure and with some new observations, advocates "the indigeneity of the system of 28 Mansions to china" (around 3000 BC). |
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Chu |
Joseph Needham
(1900-1995) |
Science and Civilisation in China
Cambridge University Press (UK), vols 2-3, 1956-1959 |
1956
1959 |
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Only seven unuseful pages on astrology (hsing ming) : "it has hardly been investigated at all by modern historians of science." (vol. 2, p.351).
The next volume is related to mathematics, calendars, cosmology and astronomy. |
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SCC II
SCC III |
| Éveline Porée-Maspero |
"Le cycle des douze animaux dans la vie des Cambodgiens"
Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, vol. 50, 1962 |
1962 |
* |
An ethnological study on the famous 12-year Animal Cycle in Cambodia. |
Persée
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Porée 1962 |
| Edward H. Schafer |
Pacing the void. T'ang Approaches to the Stars
Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1977 |
1977 |
 |
"For most early Chinese, even for the most advanced authorities on events in the sky, astronomy was indistinguishable from astrology. (...) There were certainly skeptics, but it appears that most men, even well-educated men, continued to believe that a predictable Jupiter remained an awful Jupiter." (p.9) |
Google
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Schafer |
| John Steele |
"A Comparison of Astronomical Terminology and Concepts in China and Mesopotamia"
'Origins of Early Writing Systems' Conference, October 2007, Peking University, Beijing |
2007 |
* |
A concise comparative study between ancient Chinese and Babylonian astronomies (and astrologies) : "Some of the earliest preserved Chinese writing deals with divination and corresponding celestial phenomena ..." The author, of Durham University, ignores Saussure's pioneer ideas. |
CAENO
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Steele |
| 6- Greek, Roman & Hellenistic Astrology (and Christian critics) |
Johann Albert Fabricius
(1668-1736) |
Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia scriptorum veterum graecorum
Hamburg, Karl Ernest Bohn, 1793-1795, vols. 3-4 |
1793
1795 |
* |
On astrological treatises, see vol. 4, book 21, p. 128 sq. |
Internet Archive
PDF & TXT
Fabricius-pdf
Fabricius-txt |
| Charles Daremberg (1817-1872), Edmond Saglio (1828-1911) & Edmond Pottier (1855-1934) éds. |
Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines d'après les textes et les monuments
Paris, Hachette, 1877-1919, 9 + 1 vols. |
1877
↓
1919 |
* |
Autoritative dictionary including various articles on Ancient astrology : among them, Franz Cumont's article on Zodiacus. See also my compendium (2015). |
Univ. Toulouse
Daremberg
CURA |
| Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) |
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), I-IV
Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1898-1900-1901-1903, 4 vols. |
1898
↓
1903 |
* |
Cannot be ignored for the study of Greek astrology. Italian corpori (Florence, Milano, Venice, and others). |
Internet Archive
CCAG 1
CCAG 2
CCAG 3
CCAG 4 |
| Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) |
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), V.1-4
Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1904-1906-1910, then 1940, 4 vols. |
1904
↓
1940 |
* |
Roma corpus (four parts). |
Internet Archive
CCAG 5.1
CCAG 5.2
CCAG 5.3
Chris Brennan
CCAG 5.4 H A |
| Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) |
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), VI-VII-VIII.1-4
Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1903-1908-1911-1912, then 1921-1929, 6 vols. |
1903
↓
1929 |
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Vienna (6), German (7) and Paris (8). |
Internet Archive
CCAG 6, 1903
CCAG 7, 1908
CCAG 8.1, 1929
CCAG 8.2, 1911
CCAG 8.3, 1912
CCAG 8.4, 1921 |
| Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) |
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), IX.1-2, X, XI.1-2, XII (Codices Britannicos, Athenienses, Hispanienses ac Rossicos)
Bruxelles, Maurice Lamertin, 1912-1953, 6 vols. |
1912
↓
1953 |
* |
The last six volumes. |
CURA
CCAG 9-12
Oxford
CCAG 11.1 |
| Otto Neugebauer & Henry Van Hoesen |
Greek Horoscopes
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1959 ; 1987 |
1959 |
 |
The reference book on Greek horoscopes. Would have been better without the antiastrological opinion of Festugière, but
maybe it was the only way for the XXth century pioneers of history of astrology. |
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PNG
Neug/VanHoesen |
| Alexander Jones |
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus: (P. Oxy. 4133-4300a)
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 233, Philadelphia, 1999, 2 vols. ; Diane Publishing |
1999 |
 |
Greek horoscopes. |
Google
PNG
Jones copy1
Jones copy2 |
Aratos of Soli
(c.310-245 BC) |
Phaenomena
Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 |
1499 |
* |
Latin version and comments. An introduction to Greek constellations after Eudoxos of Knidos (c. 395-340). See also the English translation of A. W. & G. R. Mair
on Theoi Project (London: William Heinemann, Loeb library # 129, 1921). |
Wolfenbütteler DB
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Aratus
|
Hipparkhos (Hipparchus) of Nicaea
(190-120 BCE) |
Hipparchi Bithyni in Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena [Commentary in 3 books]
Florence, Bernardi's sons, 1567 |
1567 |
* |
"en tête des astrologues comme des astronomes grecs" (Cumont, in Klio 9) |
Google
PDF
Hipparchus
|
| Nechepso and Petosiris |
Fragmenta magica
Edition Ernst Riess, in Philologus, supplement 6, Göttingen, 1892, pp. 325-388 |
1892 |
* |
See also the extracts of N-P 'De Solis et Lunae defectionibus' (in CCAG VII, p.129-151). |
Chris Brennan
PDF
Petosiris |
Geminus of Rhodes
(1st century BC) |
Elementa astronomiae
Ed. Carolus Manitius, Leipzig, Teubner, 1898 |
1898 |
* |
Greek text, German translation, introduction in Latin. Some parts of Geminus' treatise are highly recommended, especially
those related to the definition of zodiacal signs. The "Elements of astronomy" proves that the Greeks were not using an
imaginary sidereal zodiac. Corrected Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter. |
Wilbourhall
PDF
Geminos |
Marcus Vitruvius
(c.75-15 BC) |
De Architectura, IX
Latin text Valentin Rose, Leipzig, Teubner, 1899 [and] English translation Joseph Gwilt, London, Priestley & Weale, 1826 |
c.25
↓
1826
1899 |
* |
HTML versions by Bill Thayer. |
Bill Thayer
HTML
latin
english |
Marcus Vitruvius
(c.75-15 BC) |
De l'Architecture [Architecture ou Art de bien bastir]
French translation Jean Martin, Paris, Jacques Gazeau, 1547 |
1547 |
 |
HTML version by Claire Smith (University of Toronto). |
Gallica
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Gallica
Toronto University
HTML
Livre 9 |
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
(43 BC - 17 AD) |
Fastorum
Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1568 |
1568 |
* |
Contains the "Life of Ovid" by Petrus Crinitus, the "Fastorum", a commentary by Melanchthon, a Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Inerrantium
stellarum significationes" by Nicolaus Leonicus, and Ovid's "Tristium" and "De Ponto". |
MUNICH
PDF
Fastorum |
| Ovid |
Fastorum
Cologne, Johannes Gymnicus, 1576 |
1576 |
* |
With a Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Inerrantium stellarum significationes" by Nicolaus Leonicus. |
MUNICH
PDF & JPG
Fastorum |
| Ovide |
Fastes
in Oeuvres complètes, French translation dir. Désiré Nisard (1806-1888), Paris, Firmin Didot, 1869, p.541-660. |
1869 |
* |
With Latin text. See on CURA the review by Martín Pozzi (in Spanish) of "Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti" by Emma Gee. |
Gallica
PDF
Fastes |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomica [or] Astronomicon
Venice, [Bernardinus Venetus], [c. 1498-1500] [and]
Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 [and]
Reggio Emilia, Franciscus Mazalis, 1503 |
1498
1499
1503 |
* |
HTML version at the Latin Library. |
Gallica
PDF
Venetus
Wolfenbütteler DB
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Manutius
IMSS Florence
PDF & JPG
Mazalis |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Manilius 1551 |
| Manilius / Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) |
Astronomicon ; Castigationes et notae in M. Manili Astronomicon
printed by Mamert Patisson for Robert Estienne, Paris, 1579 ; Leiden, Christophorus Raphelencius, 1600 |
1579
↓
1600 |
 |
Important Latin commentary on Manilius with an edition of Manilius' Astronomicon. |
IMSS Florence
PDF & JPG
Scaliger 1600 |
Manilius /
Edward Sherburne
(1618-1702) |
The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English Poem
London, Nathanael Brooke, 1675 |
1675 |
* |
Versified translation of the first book of Astronomicon, with an essay on the origin and progress of astronomy, a precious catalogue of the most eminent astronomers [i.e. astrologers and astronomers], ancient & modern (to 1673 with Newton, John Collins and John Gadbury), and several other essays including one on the cosmical system. |
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Sherburne |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
Edition Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), Padova, Josephus Cominus, 1743 |
1743 |
 |
Edited with Christophorus Cellarius (1638-1707) "Rudimenta astronomica", David Gregorius (1659-1708) "De stellarum
ortu & occasu poetico", and Julius Pontedera (1688-1757) "De Manilii Astronomia & anno caelesti". |
IMSS Florence
PDF & JPG
Manilius-P |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
Edition Edmund Burton, London, J. Nichols, 1783 |
1783 |
* |
With comments by Joseph Scaliger et al. |
Internet Archive
DjVu & PDF
Burton |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
Latin text and French translation by Alexandre Pingré (1711-1796), Paris, 1786, 2 vols. |
1786 |
 |
* |
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PDF
Pingré1
Pingré2 |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomiques [or] Astrologiques
Edition Désiré Nisard (1806-1888), Paris, Firmin Didot, 1865 |
1786
↓
1865 |
 |
See p.633 sq. New edition of Pingré's version, published with Statius and Martial works. |
Gallica
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Pingré |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
London, A. J. Valpy, 1828, 2 vols. |
1828 |
* |
* |
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1828-1
1828-2
1828-2b |
| Marcus Manilius |
Astronomicon
Edition Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), London, Grant Richards, 5 vols, 1903-1912-1916-1920-1930 |
1903
1912
1916
1920
1930 |
 |
THE edition of Manilius's astro-poetical treatise. |
Internet Archive
Chris Brennan
DjVu & PDF
Housman1
Housman2
Housman3
Housman4
Housman5 |
| Angélica Paulillo Ferroni |
Cosmologia e astrologia na obra Astronomica de Marcus Manilius
Master Thesis, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007 |
2007 |
* |
Portuguese master thesis on Manilius Astronomica. |
PUC São Paulo
PDF
Ferroni |
| Anonymous |
[Astrological treatise]
Michigan Papyrus 1, Greek ms, University of Michigan |
150 ? |
 |
Important astrological treatise (c. 150 AD ?), discovered in Egypt in 1920. It gives correlations between planets and parts of human body. See eight-folded zodiacal division (col. VII and IX), Robbins article (Classical Philology 22.1, 1927), and my Octotopos. See at the same web site, two horoscopes and some other astrological fragments : Search Astrology in Michigan mss. |
Michigan University
JPG (& HTML)
Michigan Papyr. 1 |
| Mss 4Q186 and 4Q561 / Mladen Popović |
Reading the human body. Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman period Judaism
D TH Groningen University, 2006 (published by Brill in 2007) |
2006 |
 |
A study of two fragmentary manuscripts (Hebrew manuscript 4Q186 and Aramaic manuscript 4Q561). The author discusses Francis Schmidt, rightly rejects his Conception theory, but wrongly his zodiacal decan model and concludes by an apory (only eight -- supposed -- arrangements of the famous light and darkness parts, for twelve zodiacal signs), and he totally ignores my 2002 study : L'étoile de Bethléem. |
Groningen University
PDF
Popovic |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Quadripartitum opus [and] ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium
Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1484 |
1484 |
* |
The first edition of the Tetrabiblos, translated by Plato of Tivoli. With ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Haly's comment. |
BVPB Madrid
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Ptolemy 1484 |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Liber quadripartitus (Tetrabiblos)
Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1493 [and] Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 |
1493
1519 |
 |
Famous compilation : Latin translation of the Arabic version of Alī b. Ridwān (Haly Abenrudian, + 1068) with his commentary. Edited with several Arabic treatises : the Centiloquium of ps-Ptolemy, the Centiloquium & "De stellis beibeniis" of "Hermes", the Centiloquium, "De horis planetarum" and "De significatione triplicitatum ortus" of Bethen, the 150 propositiones of "Almansor", three treatises of Sahl ibn Bišr (De interrogationibus ; De electionibus ; De temporum significationibus in judiciis, and four treatises of Messahallah (De receptionibus planetarum, De interrogationibus, De conjunctionibus planetarum, De revolutionibus annorum mundi). |
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Ptolemy 1493
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Ptolemy 1519 |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Quadripartitum (Tetrabiblos)
Latin translation from Arabic by Plato of Tivoli (1138) ; in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 |
1533 |
* |
Another edition of history's most influential astrological work. |
WARBURG
PDF
Quadripartitum |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Opera
Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1541 |
1541 |
 |
The 1541 edition includes the Almagest and the interpretation by Georgius Valla of Proclus's commentary (the Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum), the Quadripartitum, the ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and the Inerrantium stellarum significationes, translated in Latin by Nicolaus Leonicus. |
BVPB Madrid
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Ptolemy 1541 |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Quadripartitum (Tetrabiblos)
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Quadripartitum |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Tetrabiblos
English translation from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus by J. Ashmand, London, Davis and Dickson, [1822] |
1822 |
 |
With Centiloquium (one hundred aphorisms) of ps-Ptolemy, written by Arabian astrologer Ahmet Abū Ja'far (Abugafarus) in c. 922 (Richard Lemay, 1978). |
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Ashmand-1
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Ashmand-2
John Bruno Hare
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Ashmand-3 |
| ps-Ptolemy |
Karpos (Fructus sive Centiloquium)
Ed. Aemilia Boer, Leipzig, Teubner, 1961 |
1961 |
* |
Teubnerian Greek edition of the Karpos (comments in Latin). Edited with the "De judicandi facultate et animi principatu". |
Internet Archive
PDF, DjVu & JPG
Karpos |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Tetrabiblos
English translation by Frank Egleston Robbins, London, William Heinemann, (Loeb Classical Library), 1940 |
1940 |
* |
A better English translation. |
Bill Thayer
HTML
Robbins |
Ptolemy
(100-178) |
Inerrantium stellarum significationes
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 ; Edited with
Ovid's Fastorum, Cologne, Johannes Gymnicus, 1576 |
1551
1576 |
* |
Translated from Greek by Nicolaus Leonicus. |
JALB Emden
JPG
Basel 1551
MUNICH
PDF & JPG
Cologne 1576 |
| Mark T. Riley |
"Theoretical and Practical Astrology: Ptolemy and his Colleagues"
Transactions of the American Philological Association, 117, 1987 |
1987 |
* |
The article illustrates finely the differences between research and popular astrology, although Ptolemy was not a real
investigator in this aera but more probably a rather good compilator. See also by M. Riley :
"Science and Tradition in the Tetrabiblos" (Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society 132.1, 1988). |
Sacramento
PDF
Riley
CURA
HTML
Riley-C |
Vettius Valens
(fl. 150-188) |
Anthologiarum libri [in 9 books]
Edition Wilhelm Kroll, Berlin, Weidmann, 1908 |
1908 |
* |
Another edition by Pingree : Leipzig, Teubner, 1986. (English translation of books I to IV by Robert Schmidt : Berkeley Springs WV, Golden Hind Press, 1993-1996, 4 vols.) |
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Chris Brennan
PDF
Valens |
| Vettius Valens / Mark T. Riley |
Anthologies
English translation Mark Riley, ca. 1995 |
1995 |
* |
Entire and useful translation of Valens' Anthologiae, completed in the 1990's, and based on Kroll's 1908 and Pingree's 1986 editions. |
Sacramento
PDF
Valens' TR. |
Vettius Valens
(fl. 150-188) |
Anthologies, Livre I
French translation Joëlle-Frédérique Bara (book I), Leiden, Brill, 1989 |
1989 |
* |
Two partial copies of the same pages on Google books. |
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Bara1a
Bara1b |
| Mark T. Riley |
"A Survey of Vettius Valens"
1996 |
1996 |
* |
A good introduction to Valens' Anthologiarum libri. |
Sacramento
PDF
Riley |
Aulus Gellius
(2nd A.D.) |
Les nuits attiques (Noctes Atticae)
French translation, Paris, Garnier, 1919, 2 vols. |
1919 |
* |
Gellius gives the Latin text and translates the argumentation of Favorinus d'Arles (c. 85-160) against astrology : Unknown planets could exist that the eye can't see and that render astrology incomplete and uncertain (see XIV 1, vol. 2, pp.196-207, especially p.199). |
Gallica
PDF
Gellius |
Sextus Empiricus
(c. 150-210) |
[Adversus mathematicos]
Greek edition Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871), Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1842 |
1842 |
* |
Edition digitalized by Google. More than three copies. |
Google
Internet Archive
PDF
Sextus-G
Sextus-IA1
Sextus-IA2 |
Sextus Empiricus
(c. 150-210) |
Adversus mathematicos
Latin translation Gentian Hervet (1499-1584), Paris, Martin le Jeune, 1569 |
1569 |
 |
A skeptical philosophical treatise against all arts, sciences and techniques. See chapter 21 (pp.93-107) : Adversus astrologos (Against the astrologers). Ignorant of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos. |
Gallica
PDF
Sextus-L |
Censorinus (grammaticus)
(fl. 220-240) |
De die natali
Bologna, Benedictus Hector, 1497 [and] Venice, ca. 1498-1500 [and] Rostock, Stephan Myliander, 1579 [and] Paris, Aegidius Beysius, 1583 |
238
↓
1497
1498
1579
1583
1889 |
 |
Written in 238 A.D. Numerous editions. Compilation on the time of life, the climacteric years, and the cycles of the great
year. Epigram of Ian Auratus (Jean Dorat) in Paris edition.
HTML version by Bill Tayer from the edition of Ivan Cholodniak (St. Petersburg, Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1889). |
Gallica
MUNICH
PDF
Censorinus1497G
Censorinus1498M
Censorinus1579G
Censorinus1583M
Censorinus1583G
Bill Thayer
HTML
Censorinus1889 |
Censorinus
(fl. 220-240) |
Du jour natal
Paris, Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke, 1843 |
238
↓
1843 |
* |
Latin text and French translation Jacques Mangeart (1805-1874). |
Gallica
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Censorinus1843
Bill Thayer
HTML
Censorinus |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus |
De nativitatibus [or] Astronomica [or] Mathesis
Venice, Simone Bevilaqua, 1497 [and] Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 [and]
Reggio Emilia, Franciscus Mazalis, 1503
|
335
↓
1497
1499
1503 |
 |
Editio princeps, edited by Antonius Laurus (1497). French translation by Pierre Monat : Paris, Belles Lettres, 1992-1997, 3 vols. |
FDU Sevilla
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Firmicus1497
MUNICH
Wolfenbütteler DB
IMSS Florence
PDF & JPG
Firmicus1497-M
Firmicus1499
Firmicus1503 |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus |
Astronomicon
Nicolaus Pruckner's edition, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
335
↓
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Firmicus1551 |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus |
Matheseos libri VIII
Wilhelm Kroll & Franz Skutsch edition, Leipzig, Teubner, 1897-1913, 2 vols. |
1897
1913 |
* |
Modern autoritative edition. |
Internet Archive
PDF
Firmicus 1
Firmicus 2 |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus |
De errore profanarum religionum
Strasbourg, Paulus Machaeropoeus, 1562 |
1562 |
* |
Another treatise of (the same?) Firmicus, against Pagan cults. |
MUNICH
PDF & JPG
De errore |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus |
Matheseos
English translation Jean Rhys Bram, Park Ridge (NJ), Noyes Press, 1975 |
1975 |
 |
The first English translation : a questionable one after his Doct. Th. (1972). The text can be viewed on Scribd (and the file downloaded after subscription). |
Scribd
PDF
Bram |
Maximus (Maximos) et Ammon
(fl. c. 360 & aft. 360 ?) |
Peri Katarche [Carminum de actionum auspiciis reliquae]
Edition Arthur Ludwich, Leipzig, Teubner, 1877 |
1877 |
* |
With ps.Manetho's Apotelesmaticorum. |
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Chris Brennan
PDF
Maximos |
| ps.Manetho |
Apotelesmaticorum libri VI
Edition Arminius Koechly, Leipzig, Teubner, 1878 |
1878 |
* |
Compilation by several authors during the first three centuries AD. Final redaction after 300. (See after Maximos Peri Katarche). |
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Chris Brennan
PDF
ps.Manetho |
Hephaistio of Thebes
(fl. c. 380) |
Apotelesmaticorum [in 3 books]
Edition August Engelbrecht (Hephaestion von Theben and sein astrologisches Compendium), Vienna, Carl Konegen, 1887 |
1887 |
 |
Another edition by David Pingree : Leipzig, Teubner, 1973-1974, 2 vols. English translation of books I & 2 by Robert Schmidt : Berkeley Springs WV, Golden Hind Press, 1994-1998, 2 vols. |
Google
Chris Brennan
PDF
Hephestion |
Proclus
(412-485) |
Enarratio
Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1559 |
1559 |
* |
The edition gives the Greek text and a Latin translation of Proclus commentary of the Tetrabiblos, Porphyry comments on Ptolemy's astrology, and the De revolutionibus nativitatum of "Hermes". |
BVPB Madrid
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Ptolemy 1559 |
Joannes Laurentius Lydus
(ca. 490-565) |
De Mensibus [and] De ostentis
Edition Immanuel Bekker, Bonn, Ed. Weber, 1837 |
1837 |
* |
* |
Internet archive
PDF
Mensibus |
Joannes Laurentius Lydus
(ca. 490-565) |
Liber De ostentis et Calendaria graeca omnia
Edition Kurt Wachsmuth, Leipzig, teubner, 1897 |
1897 |
* |
Lydus Greek text on divination and presages is edited with Greek calendars including Ptolemy's 'Apparitions of the Fixed Stars'. |
Internet archive
PDF
Lydus |
| Rhetorius / Holden |
Rhetorius the Egyptian
Tempe (AZ), American Federation of Astrologers, 2009 |
2009 |
 |
A translation of Rhetorius' Compendium (about AD 620) by James Herschel Holden. It includes a translation of Teucer of Babylon treatises : "On the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" and "The Nature and Force of the Seven planets". See also Rhetorius Aegyptius, Compendium astrologicum by David Pingree (+ 2005), continued by Stephan Heilen (to be published in March 2011 : Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, Bibliotheca Teubneriana). |
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Rhetorius |
Auguste Bouché-Leclercq
(1842-1924) |
L'astrologie grecque, chapters I & XVI
1897 ; [Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1899] |
1897 |
* |
These chapters of "L'astrologie grecque" have been separately published in 1897 in the "Revue d'Histoire des Religions" and in the "Revue Historique". |
Gallica
PDF
Précurseurs
Monde romain |
Auguste Bouché-Leclercq
(1842-1924) |
L'astrologie grecque
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1899 |
1899 |
 |
The first edition of the most famous essay on Greek astrology. Several reprints.
The OCR-TXT edition is hardly usable. |
Internet Archive
PDF, DjVu & TXT
Bouché-Leclercq |
Franz Boll
(1867-1924) |
Sphaera. Neue griechische Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternbilder
Leipzig, Teubner, 1903 |
1903 |
* |
On Greek constellations. |
Internet Archive
PDF
Sphaera |
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
"Le mysticisme astral dans l'antiquité"
in Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques et de la Classe des Beaux-arts, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1909 ; Bruxelles, Hayez, 1909 |
1909 |
* |
* |
École des Chartes
PDF
Cumont |
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
"Babylon und die griechische Astronomie"
in Neuen Jahrbüchern, 27 ; Leipzig, Teubner, 1911 |
1911 |
* |
* |
École des Chartes
PDF
Cumont |
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
Astrology and religion among the Greeks and Romans
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 |
1912 |
* |
Astrology as astrolatry : sociologically oriented but not really comprehensive. We have yet to learn why supposed "astrolatry" interested Ptolemy, and Cardano, Kepler or Campanella some fifteen centuries later ... |
Internet Archive
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Cumont
John Bruno Hare
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Cumont |
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
"Les présages lunaires de Virgile et les 'Selenodromia' "
in Revue Antiquité Classique, 2.2, 1933 ; Bruxelles, 1933 |
1933 |
* |
* |
École des Chartes
PDF
Selenodromia |
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
"Les noms des planètes et l'astrolatrie chez les Grecs"
in L'antiquité classique, 4.1 ; Bruxelles, 1935 |
1935 |
* |
* |
École des Chartes
PDF
Cumont |
| Max Laistner |
"The Western Church and Astrology during the early Middle Ages"
in Harvard Theological Review 34, 1941 |
1941 |
* |
"One fruitful source of confusion in books and articles dealing with our subject has been a failure to distinguish clearly between "scientific" and popular astrology." (p.253). |
Scribd
JPG
Laistner |
| Marilynn Lawrence |
"Hellenistic Astrology"
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005-2006 |
2006 |
* |
A rather good review of the subject : "Hellenistic and Late Antiquity astrologers built their craft upon Babylonian (and to a lesser extent Egyptian) astrological traditions, and developed their theoretical and technical doctrines using a combination of Stoic, Middle Platonic and Neopythagorean thought." |
I.E.P.
HTML
Lawrence |
| Roger Beck |
A Brief History of Ancient Astrology
Malden (MA), Blackwell, 2007 |
2007 |
* |
See also Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Joanna Komorowska and Aestimatio review by Katharina Volk. |
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PNG
Roger Beck |
| Chris Mitchell |
Did the division of the year by the Babylonians into twelve months lead to the adoption of an equal twelve-sign zodiac in Hellenistic astrology?
MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University College, April 2008 |
2008 |
* |
School if not scholar dissertation under unimaginative direction. |
Astrozero
PDF
Mitchell |
| Lucia Bellizia |
I Paranatellonta nella letteratura astrologica antica di lingua greca [The Paranatellonta in ancient Greek astrological literature]
Genova, 2010 ; English translation, 2010 |
2010 |
* |
A concise history of the Paranatellonta (the stars rising together) in Greek literature (Teukros, Valens, etc) |
Apotélesma
PDF
Lucia IT
Lucia EN |
| 7- Indian Astrology |
| Sphujidhvaja |
Yavanajātaka ["The Sayings of the Greeks"]
English translation David Pingree, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1978, vol. 2 |
269
↓
1978 |
* |
The earliest known astrological text in Sanskrit (269 AD): a translation by a Yavanesvara ("Lord of the Greeks") in 150 AD,
of a Greek text that might have been written ca. 120 BC in Alexandria. Translated by David Pingree in his excellent critical edition of 1978. |
Scribd
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Sphujidhvaja |
Minarāja
(IVth c.) |
Vrddhayavana Jātaka
Edited by David Pingree, Baroda, Oriental Institute, 1976, 3 vols. |
1976 |
* |
Sanskrit compilation of Greek astrology. Third volume is not yet available. PDF compiled by Joseph Leichter from scans obtained at
the Digital Library of India. |
Wilbourhall
PDF
Minaraja 1
Minaraja 2 |
Varahamihira
(c.505-587) |
Brihat Samhitā
English translation N. Chidambaram Iyer, Madura, South Indian Press, 1884 |
1884 |
* |
Astronomy and natural astrology. A typical model of ancient "matricial repartitions". Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter. |
Internet Archive
PDF & DjVu
Samhita
Wilbourhall
PDF
Samhita-W |
Varahamihira
(c.505-587) |
Brihat Jātaka [Horāśāstram]
Sanskrit text edited by A. N. Srinivasaraghava Aiyangar, Madras, Theosophical Society (Adyar Library), 1951 |
1951 |
* |
PDF compiled from a DjVu file available at the Million Books Project (Internet Archive) by Joseph Leichter. |
Wilbourhall
PDF
Jataka-S |
Varahamihira
(c.505-587) |
Brihat Jātaka
English translation N. Chidambaram Iyer, Madras, Foster Press, 1885 |
1885 |
* |
Varahamihira's astrological main treatise. Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter. |
Wilbourhall
PDF
Jataka-E |
Varahamihira
(c.505-587) |
Brihat Jātaka
English translation N. Chidambaram Aiyar, 2nd rev. ed., Madras, Thompson & Co., 1905 |
1905 |
 |
See also, on Scribd, the Daivagyna Vallabha of Varahamihira (Horary Astrology) and the Jataka Lakshanas in Horasara of his son Prithuyasas. |
Internet Archive
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Mihira-IA
Wilbourhall
Scribd
PDF
Mihira-W
Mihira-S |
| Rishi Jaimini |
Jaimini Sutras
English translation Suryanarain Rao (revised by Bangalore Venkata Raman), Bangalore, IBH Prakashana, 6th edition 1984 |
1984 |
* |
(Published without original texts in Devanagari and transliteration). See also the HTML version on Astro Jyoti website and the Astrology Sastras Library including 17 translations of Classics, on the same website. |
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Jaimini |
Parāśara
(VIIIth c.?) |
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra [ Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra ] [BPHS]
Transl. Girish Chand Sharma, New Delhi, Sagar Publications, 1994-1995 ; 1999-2000, 2 vols. |
8th c.?
↓
1994
2003 |
* |
A chief treatise of Jyotish Astrology. English HTML version on Astrojyoti website. |
108om
PDF
Parashara1
Parashara2 |
Mantreswara
(XIIIth c.?) |
Mantreswara Phala Deepika
Transl. Dr. G. S. Kapoor, New Delhi |
13th c.? |
* |
General manual beginning with the distinction between Razis (zodiacal signs) and Bhavas (houses). The book is attributed to Shri Mantreswara. |
108om
DOC
Mantreswara |
George Thibaut
(1848-1914) |
Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik
Strasbourg, Karl Trübner, 1899 |
1899 |
* |
On Indian astrology and astronomy. |
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Thibaut |
| Sankar Balakrishna Dikshit |
Bharatiya Jyotish Sastra (History of Indian Astronomy)
Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1969 then Delhi, Government of India Press, 1981 |
1969
1981 |
* |
See vol. 2, pp. 364-378 for a brief review of Indian astrology. |
Scribd
PDF
Dikshit-1
Dikshit-2 |
| 8- Arabic Astrology (including Syrian and Jewish) |
| Ethel Stefana Drower |
The Book of the Zodiac
London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1949 |
1949 |
* |
English translation of the Mandaean Sfar Malwasia from three Mandaic manuscripts (Included the Mandaic text). See also Rochberg (in ARAM 11-12, 1999-2000, reprint in her book In the Path of the Moon, 2010, p.223 sq.). |
Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis
PDF
Drower
Sfar Malwasia-1
Sfar Malwasia-2 |
Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)
(c. 735-815) |
Opera Messahallica (De significationibus planetarum in nativitate, Liber receptionis, De revolutionibus annorum mundi, Epistola in rebus eclipsis, De cogitatione)
Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and] Edition Joachim Heller, Nuremberg, Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber, 1549 |
1549 |
 |
Jewish Pagan converted to Islam. For the content of these treatises, see David Juste notice. |
FDU Sevilla
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Messahallah-S
WARBURG
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Messahallah-W |
Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)
(c. 735-815) |
De elementis et orbibus coelestibus
Nuremberg, Ioannes Montanus & Ulricus Neuberus, 1549 |
1549 |
 |
Technical manual. See in the second part : "De Eris intervallis regnorum et gentium", "De era persarum", "De revolutionibus annorum", "De aequatione
duodecim domorum coeli" ... |
FDU Sevilla
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De elementis |
Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)
(c. 735-815) |
De ratione circuli et stellarum
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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De ratione |
Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)
(c. 735-815) |
On the Things of Eclipses of Luminaries, and of Conjunctions of Planets, and of Revolutions of Years
Translated into English from Latin version of John of Seville by Anton Grigoryev. |
2004 |
* |
English translation of "Epistola in rebus eclipsis". |
Anton Grigoryev
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On the Things |
'Umar Ibn Farrukhān al-Tabarī [Omar, Alfraganus]
(+ c. 815) |
De nativitatibus
[Venice, 1503] ; Edition Luca Gaurico, Venice, 1525 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 |
1525
1533 |
* |
Latin translation of Kitāb al-mawālīd by John of Seville in 1127 (see Carmody, 1956, p.38). |
MUNICH
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Omar 1525
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Omar 1533 |
'Umar Ibn Farrukhān al-Tabarī [Omar, Alfraganus]
(+ c. 815) |
De nativitatibus
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Omar 1551 |
Abū 'Alī al-Khayyat (Albohali)
(770-835) |
De Iudiciis Nativitatum
Nuremberg, Johann vom Berg (Montanus) & Ulrich Neuber, 1549 |
1549 |
 |
With a preface by Joachim Heller to his tutor Philipp Melanchthon. At the end (f.Q3v) : "Soli Deo Gloria" (Glory to the one God, or to the Sun God). |
MUNICH
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Albohali-M |
Abū 'Alī al-Khayyat (Albohali)
(770-835) |
Astrologia terrestris oder irdische Sterndeutungs-Lehre
Frenstadt, 1767 |
1767 |
 |
A treatise of geomantical astrology, attributed to Albohali and reported by Wilhelm Knappich. |
Google
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Albohali-G |
Sahl ibn Bišr (Zahel or Zael)
(+ in 822 or in 850) |
Opera Zahelica (Introductorium, Quinquaginta precepta, De interrogationibus, De electionibus, Liber temporum [or] De significatione temporis ad judicia)
Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1509 [and] Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and ?] |
1509
1519 |
 |
For the content of these treatises, see David Juste notice. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985) ; English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008). |
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Introductorium
50 Precepta
Interrogationibus
Electionibus-W
Electionibus-S
Liber temporum |
Sahl ibn Bišr (Zahel or Zael)
(+ in 822 or in 850) |
Tabul(a) Zebelis (Verzeichnis und Ausslegungen etlicher Zufälle, welche den Menschen unversehens zuwiederfahren pflegen, nach unterschiedlichen Lauff des Monden durch die zwölff himlischen Zeichen)
Braunschweig, Andreas Moltrechten, 1669 |
1669 |
* |
German translation of Zahel ("Zebel") : the Moon in the twelve zodiacal signs. |
WARBURG
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Zebel |
Ya'qūb al-Kindī
(c.800-870) |
Astrorum judices [aut Liber], de pluviis, imbribus et ventis, ac aeris mutatione
Venice, Petrus Liechtenstien, 1507 |
1507 |
* |
With the "De mutatione temporis" of "Gaphar" or Ja'far Indus (not to be confused with Albumasar : see Carmody, p.85). |
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Al-Kindi |
Abū-Bakr ibn al-Khasīb (Albubather)
(fl. c. 850) |
Liber Nativitatum [and] Centiloquium Divi Hermetis
Venice, Giovanni Baptista Sessa, 1501 |
1501 |
 |
Published with "Hermes" Centiloquium and "Almansor" Judicia (or Propositiones). |
IMSS Florence
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Albubather |
Abū-Bakr ibn al-Khasīb (Albubater)
(fl. c. 850) |
Liber Genethliacus sive De nativitatibus (Kitāb al-Mawālīd)
Nuremberg, Iohannes Petreius, 1540 |
1540 |
 |
Translated by Salio or Solomon of Padua, c. 1218, or some years after (Carmody, 1956, p.136). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos : "Sobre las natividades" (Barcelona, 1986). |
MUNICH
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Albubater-M
WARBURG
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Albubater-W |
Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)
(805-886) |
Flores astrologie
Latin translation of the Kitāb tahāwīl sini al-'ālam, Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1488 [and] Venice, Johannes Baptista Sessa, 1506 |
1488
1506 |
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Short treatise related to the interpretation of the revolution of the year (Spring equinox Ingress chart). See David Juste notice. English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008). |
World DL
WARBURG
MUNICH
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Flores-Wd
Flores-Wb
Flores-M |
Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)
(805-886) |
De magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus
Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 |
1489 |
 |
On the great conjunctions of Jupiter-Saturn and other mundane operators : the chief work of the most influential Arabic astrologer. |
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Conjunctionibus |
Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)
(805-886) |
De magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus
Venice, Iacobus Pentius (Giacomo Penzio de Leucho) for Melchiorre Sessa, 1515 |
1515 |
 |
* |
*
*
*
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Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)
(805-886) |
Introductorium in astronomiam
Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 [and] Venise, Jacob Pentius for Melchior Sessa, 1506 |
1489
1506 |
 |
Latin translation by Hermann of Carinthia or Dalmatia (c.1110-1154). On this translator, see
the article of Stipe Kutleša : "Hermann of Dalmatia", in Prolegomena #3, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 2004. |
PDF or JPG
Gallica
Carnegie Mellon
e-rara Zürich
World DL
Introductorium-G
Introd. CMU
Introd. 1506-Z
Introd. 1506-W |
| "Almansor" |
Judicia seu Propositiones [Propositiones ad Saracenorum regem]
Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 |
1519
1533 |
* |
Collection of 150 aphorisms, dedicated to the calif Abū Sālih al-Mansūr (see Carmody, p.132). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985), English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008). |
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Judicia
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Almansor |
| "Almansor" |
Propositiones ad Saracenorum regem
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Almansor |
| Bethen (Bethem) |
Centiloquium [and] De horis planetarum [and] De significatione triplicitatum ortus
Latin translations in Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1493 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 |
1493
1533 |
* |
Collection of aphorisms, and some pages on planetary hours, and on triplicities. See David Juste notice. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985). |
WARBURG
Gallica
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Centiloquium
Horis
3 treatises (ed. 1493) |
| Bethen (Bethem) |
Centiloquium [and] De horis planetarum
Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 |
1551 |
* |
* |
JALB Emden
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Bethen |
| al-Qalandar (Alchandreus, Arcandam ...) |
Livre des predictions d'Astrologie
Edited by Antoine Mizauld, Paris, Jean Foucher, 1563 |
910 ?
↓
1563 |
 |
French translation of "Arcandam doctor peritissimus ac non vulgaris astrologus, de veritatibus, & praedictionibus
astrologiae ..." (ed. Richard Roussat, Paris, Denis Janot, 1542). Xth century Hebrew popular manual (astrology, numerology and physiognomony). |
Google
PDF
Arcandam |
al-Râzî = Rhazes
(Almansor Rhazi)
(ca. 865-932) |
Liber nonus
Pavia, ca. 1497 |
1497 |
* |
Iatromathematical (astromedical) treatise with the commentary of Johannes Matthaeus of Ferrara. |
MUNICH
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Rhazes |
Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)
(+ c. 967) |
Libellus Ysagogicus, id est Iudiciorum Astrorum [Liber introductorius]
Venice, brothers Giovanni & Giorgio Forlivio, 1491 |
1491 |
* |
With the commentary of John of Saxe (1331). Incomplete copy with manuscript notes. |
MUNICH
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Forlivio |
Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)
(+ c. 967) |
Preclarum Summi in Astrorum Scientia Principis
Edition Antonio Fanti, Venice, Peter Liechtenstein, 1521 |
1521 |
* |
First known Latin editions in 1473 (Bologna), 1481 (Venice) and 1483 (Venice). Translated by John of Seville. "a complete presentation of astrological practices and materials" (Carmody, p.144). |
IMSS Florence
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Alcabitius |
Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)
(+ c. 967) |
Iudiciorum astrorum Isagoge
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1521 |
1521 |
* |
With the commentary of Jean Danko de Saxe. |
JALB Emden
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Alchabitius |
Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)
(+ c. 967) |
Astronomie judiciarie principia tractans cum Ioannis Saxonii commentario
[c. 948] ; Lyon, printed by Guillaume Huyon for Barthelemy Trot, 1523 |
1523 |
 |
A best-seller of Arabian astrology, published with commentary by the Parisian astronomer Jean Danko de Saxe, and a small treatise of infirmities by Pierre Turrel, the "Tractaculus infirmitatum". |
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BVH Tours
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Tours
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| Anonymous |
Massekhet HaHammah [The Blessing of the Sun]
Compiled and translated with commentary by Abe Friedman, 2008 |
2008 |
 |
First attestation of the oldest part of this ritualist text, partially astrological : 10th century. The portraits for
Mercury and Moon complexions are significative of the Jewish inversion of the original Babylonian significations.
"A person who is born under Mercury will be an enlightened and wise man, because Mercury is the sun's scribe. A person
who is born under the moon will be a man who suffers illness, building up and tearing down ..." |
coejl.org
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Friedman |
al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham
(Alhazen, Abulhazen)
(c. 965-1038) |
De aspectibus
BSB (Munich) manuscript : Clm 10269, [S.l.], beginning 14th c. |
1315 |
 |
Technical manual of the famous physicist. Latin manuscript translation. |
MUNICH
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De aspectibus |
Kūshyār ibn Labbān
/ Mohammad Bagheri |
Books I and IV of Kūshyār ibn Labbān's Jāmic Zīj: An Arabic Astronomical Handbook by an Eleventh-Century Iranian Scholar
D TH Utrecht University, 2006 |
2006 |
* |
A study of the Astronomical Tables (Zij) of the Iranian astronomer Kūshyār ibn Labbān (ca. 963-1048). The Tables have been
written around 1020. |
IGITUR
PDF
Bagheri |
al-Bīrūnī Muhammad
(973-1049) |
The book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (Kitāb al-Tafhīm)
[1029] ; English translation Ramsey Wright, London, Luzac, 1934 |
1934 |
* |
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*
*
* |
al-Bīrūnī Muhammad
(973-1049) |
Alberuni's India : An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology,
Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030
English ed. Edward Sachau, London, Trübner, 1888, 2 vols. |
|
 |
On Indian astrology and related subjects, see chap. 32-62
(chronology and astronomy), chap. 75-80 (fast and festive days,
astrology). |
Internet Archive
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India1
India2
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India1G
India2G |
al-Bīrūnī Muhammad
(973-1049) |
The Chronology of ancient Nations (Athār-ul-Bākiya)
English ed. Edward Sachau, London, William Allen, 1879 |
|
 |
See particularly the last chapter on lunar stations and their rising and setting. |
Internet Archive
DjVu
Chronology
Gallica
PDF
Chronology-G |
Ali Abū al-Hasan ibn Abī al-Rijāl (Haly Abenragel or Haly or Albohazen Haly)
(965-1050) |
Preclarissimus liber completus in judiciis astrorum [or] Libri de judiciis astrorum (Kitāb al-bāri' fī akhām an-nujūm)
Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 [then] Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1551 (3rd edition?) |
c. 1040
↓
1485
1551 |
 |
Famous compilation covering the four main branches of Medieval astrology (interrogations, nativities, elections, revolutions). See also the French translation of 1430 by Guillaume Harnoys (at the expense of
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford) under the title "Jugements d'Astronomie" (Paris BnF, ms. fr. 1352). |
PDF
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Basel's edition
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Wolfenbütteler DB
Venice's edition
|
| Anonymous |
Liber novem judicum in judiciis astrorum
[c. 1150] ; Venice, Peter Liechtenstein, 1509 |
1150
↓
1509 |
* |
A famous compilation from Dorotheus and Arabic astrologers and astronomers : al-Kindī, 'Umar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Tabarī, Sahl ibn Bišr, "Aristotle", Abū 'Alī al-Khayyāt, and Jirjis. Translations from Arabic probably supervised by Hermann of Carinthia and Hugo of Santalla (mid-twelfth century) : See David Juste notice. |
WARBURG
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9 Judges |
Abraham Ibn Ezra
(1089-1167) |
De nativitatibus
[c.1154] ; Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 |
1154
↓
1485 |
 |
On interpretation of nativities. See Meira Epstein's article (CURA) and David Juste notice (Warburg's Bibliotheca Astrologica Latina Numerica). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Madrid, 1981). |
WARBURG
PDF
Ibn Ezra
|
Abraham Ibn Ezra
(1089-1167) |
In re judiciali opera [Astrological works]
Latin translation Pietro de Abano, Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1507 |
1507 |
 |
Contains the following treatises, the second one having been judged as spurious : Introductorium quod dicitur principium sapientie, Liber rationum, Liber nativitatum & revolutionum earum, Liber interrogationum, Liber electionum, Liber luminarium & est de cognitione diei cretici seu de cognitione cause crisis, Liber conjunctionum planetarum & revolutionum annorum mundi qui dicitur de mundo vel seculo, including some commented works on Bethen. |
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Ibn Ezra, AOO |
A. F. Mehren
(1822-1907) |
Vues d'Avicenne sur l'astrologie et sur le rapport de la responsabilité humaine avec le destin
in Le Museon 3, Louvain 1884 ; Louvain, C. Peeters, 1885 |
1885 |
* |
* |
Internet Archive
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Mehren |
| Edward Kennedy |
A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 46 part 2, Philadelphia, 1956 ; Diane Publishing |
1956 |
 |
* |
Google
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Kennedy |
| Lester J. Ness |
Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity
D. TH. Miami University, 1990 |
1990 |
 |
Internet version of the doctoral thesis of Lester Ness. A revised version was published in 1999 : "Written in the Stars" (Warren Center PA, Shangri-La Publications). |
ARCANA
HTML
Ness |
| Stefano Buscherini |
La teoria delle congiunzioni Giove-Saturno tra Tardo Antico e Alto Medioevo
D. TH. 2006 ; Bologna, 2007 |
2006 |
 |
Doctoral thesis on the theory of the great conjunctions of Jupiter-Saturn, especially in Zoroastrian Sassanid and
Arabic astrologies. |
Università di Bologna
PDF
Buscherini |
| Montserrat Díaz Fajardo |
Tasyīr y proyección de rayos en textos astrológicos magrebíes
D TH Universidad de Barcelona, 2008 |
2008 |
* |
A critical edition of four texts by Maghrib astrologers, Ali Abū al-Hasan ibn Abī al-Rijāl (the famous Haly) and three authors
of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries : Ibn Azzūz (Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Hayyāy Azzūz al-Qusantīnī ; died 1354),
Ibn Qunfud (Ahmad b. Hasan b. Alī b. Qunfud al-Qusantīnī ; 1339-1407), and al-Baqqār (Abū Abd Allāh al-Baqqār ; fl. 1415). |
T.D. en Xarxa
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Díaz Fajardo |
| Kevin van Bladel |
The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science
Oxford University Press (US), 2009 |
2009 |
 |
"A major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus." See Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Y. Tzvi Langermann. |
Google
PNG
Bladel |
| 9- Pre-Columbian Astrology (Native American cultures) |
Alberto Escalona Ramos
(1908-1960) |
Cronología y astronomía maya-mexica
México, Fides, 1940 |
1940 |
 |
* |
*
*
bCc
|
| 10- Medieval Astrology (Christian, including Byzantine area) |
Alcuin of York
(735-804) |
De Cursu Et Saltu Lunae [and] De Bissexto
in ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, Paris, Garnier, 1863 |
1863 |
* |
See cc. 979-1002. |
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Alcuin |
Eginhard
(ca. 770-840) |
Annales: Vie de Charlemagne
éd. François Guizot, Paris, J.-L.-J. Brière, 1824 |
1824 |
* |
On Alcuin and Charlemagne's interest for astrology. |
Gallica
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Eginhard |
Honorius of Autun
(died ca. 1151) |
De imagine mundi
Nuremberg, [Anton Koberger], ca. 1472 |
1472 |
 |
Popular cosmological treatise. |
MUNICH
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Honorius |
Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179) |
Causae et curae
ed. Paulus Kaiser, Leipzig, Teubner, 1903 |
1903 |
* |
Medical treatise including a neo-astrological schema : the influence of the Moon after one of the thirty days of the month at the conception moment (see p. 235-42). |
Internet Archive
PDF
Hildegard |
Manuel I Komnenos
& Michael Glycas |
"Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defence and Refutation of Astrology"
Translation and notes by Demetra George, Culture and Cosmos, 2001-02 |
2001 |
* |
A pro vs anti-astrological controversy in an Orthodox theological context : a defence of astrology by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and the opportunist refutation of the theologian Michael Glycas. |
Demetra George
PDF
Komnenos |
Michael Scotus
(c.1175-1234) |
Astrologia cum figuris
[s.l.], XIVth century |
XIVth |
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An astrological work of the famous Scottish physician. |
MUNICH
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Scotus |
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
(c. 1190-1250) |
Libro de proprietatibus rerum en romance
Toledo, Gaspar de Avila, for Joan Thomas Fabio, 1529 |
1235
↓
1529 |
* |
Spanish translation of "De proprietatibus rerum" written in c. 1235. See book VIII on astrology : "Del cielo". |
UCM Madrid
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Bartholomaeus |
Albertus Magnus
(1193-1280) |
De caelo et mundo
Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1490 |
1490 |
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Albertus |
Albertus Magnus
(1193-1280) |
Speculum astronomiae [Liber de duabus sapientiis et de recapitulatione omnium librorum astronomi(a)e]
[Nuremberg, Hochfeder, ca. 1493/96] |
1495 |
* |
A defense of the true astrology. For an English translation of this text, see
Paola Zambelli : "The Speculum astronomiae and its enigma: astrology, theology, and science in Albertus Magnus
and his contemporaries" (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic, 1992). |
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Speculum
Wolf1
Wolf2 |
Albertus Magnus
(1193-1280) |
De causis proprietatum elementorum
Magdeburg, Jacob Winther, 1506 |
1506 |
* |
* |
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Albert |
Alfonso X the Wise
(1221-1284) |
Tabulae astronomicae
Edition Joannes de Saxonia, Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1483 [and] Edition Johannes Lucilius Santritter, Venice, Johannes Hamman, 1492 |
1252
↓
1483
1492 |
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Two editions of the famous Alfonsine Tables (three copies). |
BU Santiago de Compostela
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Tabulae1483
Tabulae1492
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Tabulae1492 |
| José Chabás / Bernard R. Goldstein |
The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
Dordrecht (NL), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 |
2003 |
* |
Two partial copies on Google Books. See also by the same authors : "Las Tablas Alfonsíes de Toledo" (Toledo, Diputación Provincial de Toledo, 2008). |
Google
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Tables1
Tables2 |
| Anonymous |
Tabulae astronomicae numeris arabicis belle scriptae
ms. BSB Clm 18927, [S.l.], 13th c. |
13th |
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Tabulae |
| "Hermes" |
Centiloquium Hermetis
ed. Stephanus Messanensis, [Leipzig], before 1494 |
1262
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1494 |
* |
* |
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Centiloquium |
| "Hermes" |
Hermetis Centum aphorismorum liber [or] Centiloquium
in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 [and] 1551 |
1262
↓
1533
1551 |
* |
Popular compilation of aphorisms from Arabic sources by Stefano Protonotaro da Messina, c. 1262 (see ms. Prag 1466, Carmody 1956, p.53). Famous incipit : "Sol & Luna post deum, omnium viventium vita sunt", i.e. : Sun and Moon just after god are the (source of) life of all living beings. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985). |
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Hermes-1551 |
| "Hermes" |
De revolutionibus nativitatum
in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos edition, Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1559 |
1559 |
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* |
BVPB Madrid
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Hermes 1559 |
| Anonymous |
"L'horoscope de Baudoin de Courtenay, empereur latin d'Orient (XIIIe siècle)"
ed. Maxime Préaud, in Anagrom 3-4, 1973 |
c1270 |
* |
After French manuscript 1353, BnF. Incipit : "Dex [Dieu] qui fist toutes creatures", explicit : "et jasoit que li Toreaus fust alez en meson estrange en ..." |
CURA
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Baudoin |
| Leopold of Austria |
De astrorum scientia [or] Compilatio de astrorum scientia
Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 |
c1271
↓
1489 |
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In ten books. One of the most beautifully illustrated incunabula. Francis Carmody has edited in 1947 the three first books of a French manuscript translation (before 1324) : "Li compilacions de le science des estoilles". |
Wolfenbütteler DB
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Leopold |
Guido Bonatti (Bonatus)
(1223-1297) |
Tractatus astronomie [or] Liber astronomicus [or] De Astronomia
ed. Johannes Angelus, Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1491 [and] Basel, [Jakob Kundig], 1550 |
1491
↓
1550 |
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In ten chapters : A defense of astrology, on Signs and Houses, on Planets, on Conjunctions, Aphorisms, on Questions (horary), on Elections, on Revolutions and Arabian Parts, on Nativities, on Weather Prediction. "The most important astrological work produced in Latin in the thirteenth century." (Thorndike 2, 1923, p.826). Translated by Robert Hand (books 1-4) in 1994-1996, and by Benjamin Dykes (books 1-10) in 2007.
Basel's edition includes a commentary by George of Trebizond alias Trapezuntius (1395/6-1484) on ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium. |
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JALB Emden
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Bonatus1491
Bonatus1550
Bonatus1550G |
Guido Bonatti (Bonatus)
(1223-1297) |
Anima Astrologiae, or A Guide for Astrologers, being the considerations of the famous Guido Bonatus faithfully rendred into English [by Henry Coley]
London, Benjamin Harris, 1676 |
1491
↓
1676 |
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English translation of Bonatus's "Liber astronomicus" by Henry Coley, edited by
William Lilly. The choice aphorisms from Cardanus are not included in
this copy. A facsimile of the edition of 1886, has been published in Washington (American
Federation of Astrologers, 1970) then in London (Regulus, 1986) with different pagination.
Word copy of the translation (in 2000). |
Paulo Silva
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Anima |
Pietro d'Abano
(c. 1250-1316) |
De signis celestibus eorumque significatione et potestate
XVth century manuscript. |
* |
* |
Tables with zodiacal descriptions (p.131-176). |
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Abano |
Anianus
(fl. ca. 1300 ?) |
Compotus cum commento
[Basel, Lienhart Ysenhut, ca. 1490-95] and Paris, Jean Treperel, 1511 |
c1490
1511 |
* |
Astro Palmistry manual. Also printed in Lyons by Jehan Siber (ca. 1490). |
Wolfenbütteler DB
Gallica
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W-1490
G-1511 |
Francesco Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli)
(1267-1327) |
L'Acerba de l'ordine di Cieli con el commento novamente trovato ...
[1326] ; Venice, Marchio Sessa & Piero di Ravani Bersano, 1516 |
1516 |
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First edition : Brescia (c.1473). Cecco was condemned by the Inquisition and burned in
Florence. "The spirit that enabled Cecco d'Ascoli to face execution was
far more emancipated than that which animated his inquisitors." (Wedel 1920) |
Gallica
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Cecco |
Francesco Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli)
(1267-1327) |
L'Acerba de l'ordine di Cieli
[1326] ; Venice, Candido de Benedetto Bendoni, 1550 |
1550 |
* |
Another Venetian edition. |
IMSS Florence
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Cecco-1550 |
Cecco d'Ascoli
(1267-1327) |
L'Acerba (in 5 books)
[1326] ; French translation Marie-Claude Ramain, CURA, 2002 |
2002 |
* |
First translation into French. |
CURA
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Cecco |
| Anonymous |
Breviarium. De signis et figuris solis et lunae
ms BSB Clm 17030, [s.l.], 1320 |
1320 |
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A beautiful illustrated manuscript. |
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BSB Clm 17030 |
Walter Burley (Gualterus Burlaeus)
(ca. 1275-1345) |
De vita et moribus philosophorum
Nuremberg, ca. 1472 |
1472 |
* |
The Lives of Philosophers by the 14th c. logician (see the first chapter on Thales' astronomy/logy). |
MUNICH
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Burlaeus |
| Anonymous |
"Traités en vers provençaux sur l'astrologie et la géomancie"
ms, Toulouse or Montpellier, ca. 1332 ; ed. Paul Meyer, in Romania, n.26, 1897 |
c1332
↓
1897 |
* |
Extracts of two versified astro-geomantical treatises in Provençal dialect, with obscurantist anti-astrological comments. |
Gallica
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Meyer |
Firmin de Beauval (or Belleval)
(fl. 1338-1345) |
Opusculum repertorii pronosticon in mutationes aeris tam via astrologica quam metheorologica
Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 |
1485 |
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Nice edition, printed with a "Libellus de medicorum astrologia" of a Pseudo-Hippocrates, identified as Imbrasius Ephesius by Hillard, and translated by Pietro de Abano. |
BU Santiago de Compostela
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Firminus-S
Firminus-M |
Levi ben Gershom (Leo de Balneolis)
(1288-1344) |
Levi Ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345
ed.-tr. Bernard Goldstein & David Pingree, Volume 80.6 of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1990 |
c1344
↓
1990 |
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Critical edition of Gerson's Prognostication on the Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction of 1345. |
Google
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Gerson |
John Ashenden (Eschuid)
(fl. 1335-1365) |
Summa astrologiae judicialis de accidentibus mundi quae anglicana vulgo nuncupatur
[1347-1348] ; ed. Iohannes Lucilius Santritter of Heilbronn, Venice, Franciscus Bolanus, 1489 |
1347
↓
1489 |
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Mainly mundane and meteorological astrology. The first British astrologer, professor at Oxford, rejected the electional and horary astrologies which made the fortune of the English school three centuries later. "The foremost work by England's foremost medieval astrologer." (Carey 1992, p.58) |
MUNICH
FDU Sevilla
BDU Bielefeld
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Eschuid-M
Eschuid-S
Eschuid-B
Eschuid-G |
| Anonymous |
Miscellany with various astronomical, calendrical, medical, and philosophical texts
England, 14th century : British Library: Harley MS 3719, 282 ff. |
14th |
* |
Latin and British manuscript with astrological diagrams, wheel charts and a bloodletting zodiac man (ff. 155-159). |
London
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| Anonymous |
Calendarium cum figuris et regulis computi astronomici et versibus de singulis mensibus
München, BSB Clm 13076, [S.l.], 1356 |
1356 |
 |
* |
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Calendarium |
| Anonymous |
Kalender und Praktika auf die Jahre 1368-1405
München, BSB Cgm 32 |
c1367 |
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Early German calendar. |
MUNICH
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Kalender |
Geoffrey Chaucer
(1343–1400) |
Treatise on the Astrolabe
ed. Andrew Edmund Brae, London, John Russell Smith, 1870 [and] ed. Walter W. Skeat (1835-1912), London, Oxford University Press, 1968 [and edition of 1872] |
1391
↓
1870
1872
1968 |
* |
Brae's edition comes with several appendices, Skeat's edition with the "Astrolabium Messehalle" (Messahallah) in Latin, from a manuscript of the Cambridge University library. |
Internet Archive
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Chaucer1870
Chaucer1872a
Chaucer1872b
Chaucer1968 |
| Garth Chivalle Carpenter |
Chaucer's Solar Pageant: an Astrological Reading of the Canterbury Tales
Philosophy D. TH., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1997 |
1997 |
* |
Chaucer would have written his Tales for his ten-year old son, as an illustrated didactical manual for understanding
the principles of astrology. "Chaucer makes two rounds of the zodiac, starting with the Knight's Tale aligned with Aries (the head),
replete with pagan astrological practices, completing the sequence with the Parson's Tale, aligned with Pisces (the feet),
in which the pilgrims are exhorted to save their souls by repentance." |
Victoria Library
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Carpenter |
| Antonio di Monte Ulmi (Montulmo) |
De judiciis nativitatum
[1394] ; Nuremberg, Johannes Petreius, 1540 |
1394
↓
1540 |
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Published in 1540 after Gaurico's "Tractatus de nativitatibus", with annotations by Regiomontanus. |
FDU Sevilla
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Montulmo
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Montulmo-M |
| Charles Jourdain |
"Nicolas Oresme et les astrologues de la cour de Charles V"
in Revue des Questions Historiques 18, 1875 |
1875 |
* |
Anti-astrological. On Oresme and his "Livre de divinacions" (c. 1362), see rather this study (CURA, 2000). |
Gallica
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Jourdain |
Lubert Hautschild /
Léopold Delisle
(1826-1910) |
"Notice sur un livre d'astrologie de Jean duc de Berri"
in Bulletin du Bibliophile, 33 ; Paris, Librairie Techener, 1896 |
1896 |
* |
On two mediaeval texts : "De quatuor elementis et duodecim signis" and "De planetis", in an astrological manuscript in Latin by Lubert Hautschild (1347-1417), compiled by Georgius Zothorus. |
Internet Archive
École des Chartes
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Delisle1
Delisle2 |
Duc de Berry /
Franz Cumont
(1868-1947) |
"Astrologica"
in Revue Archéologique, 16.1 ; Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1915 |
1915 |
* |
On the "Très riches Heures du duc de Berry". |
École des Chartes
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Cumont |
| Jean-Patrice Boudet |
Entre science et nigromance. Astrologie, divination et magie dans l'Occident médiéval (XIIe-XVe siècle)
Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006 |
2006 |
 |
ca. 125 pages on Google Books. |
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Boudet |
