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Book SynopsisFirst ever edition of the Latin translation of Ptolemy’s masterwork. This is the first edition ever of Moerbeke’s Latin translation of Ptolemy’s celebrated astrological handbook, known under the title Tetrabiblos or Quadripartitum (opus). Ptolemy’s treatise (composed after 141 AD) offers a systematic overview of astrological science and had, together with his Almagest, an enormous influence up until the 17th century. In the Latin Middle Ages the work was mostly known through translations from the Arabic. William of Moerbeke’s translation was made directly from the Greek and it is a major scholarly achievement manifesting not only Moerbeke’s genius as a translator, but also as a scientist. The edition is accompanied by extensive Greek-Latin indices, which give evidence of Moerbeke’s astonishing enrichment of the Latin vocabulary, which he needed both to translate the technical scientific vocabulary and to cope with the many new terms Ptolemy created. The introduction examines Moerbeke’s translation method and situates the Latin translation within the tradition of the Greek text. This edition makes possible a better assessment of the great medieval translator and also contributes to a better understanding of the Greek text of Ptolemy’s masterwork.Trade Review'Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem und Carlos Steel ist zu danken, dass sie den Wissenschaftshistorikern und Philologen, die sich mit der Rezeption der Tetrabiblos, eines in seiner Wirkmächtigkeit kaum zu überschätzenden antiken Textes, beschäftigen, ein vorzügliches Arbeitsinstrument vorgelegt haben.'Klaus Geus, Editionen in der Kritik, vol. 10 * Editionen in der Kritik *"In conclusion, the volume is not only a landmark in Ptolemaic studies, but Chapter V and the apparatus to William’s translation also make it an indispensable companion for readers of the Greek Tetrabiblos."Levente László, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Volume 50 Issue 2, May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828619840510Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter I: Manuscript Tradition of the Translation 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 179, ff. 171r-208v (Ox) 2. Venezia, Bibl. Marciana, lat. XIV, 242 (= 4295), ff. 1r-12v (Ve) 3. The relation of the two manuscripts Chapter II: William of Moerbeke Translator of the Ludiciala 1. Attribution of the translation to William of Moerbeke 1.1. External arguments 1.2. Internal arguments: an analysis of the translation method 1.2.1. Particles, conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs 1.2.2. Vocabulary 1.2.3. Syntax 1.3. Special character of the translation 1.4. When was the translation made? 2. Moerbeke: a translator with an interest in science 2.1. Astrological terms 2.2. Medical terms 2.3. Translation of hapax legomena and rare terms 2.4. Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus 3. Moerbeke and Plato of Tivoli Conclusion Chapter III: The Reception of Moerbeke's Translation 1. Henricus Bate 2. Agostino Nifo Chapter IV: The Greek Text and the Translation A. The tradition of the Greek text 1. The Vaticanus graecus 1038 and related manuscripts 2. The tradition besides V 2.1. Class βγ 2.2. Class α 2.3. Bipartition of the text tradition 3. The indirect tradition B. The Greek model of Moerbeke’s translation 1. Principal characteristic of G: a representative of branch ψ 1.1. G agrees with V (L) alone against variants of all other witnesses 1.2. G is dependent neither from V nor L 1.3. Bipartition of the tradition: G with V (L) alone against common readings of α βγ 60 2. G with other witnesses against V (L) 2.1. Relations of G with readings of (Σ) βγ against V Y (or V α) 2.2. G: relations with α 3. G different from the whole tradition 3.1. Two important cases 3.2. G agrees with coniectures of Hübner 3.3. Glosses in G 3.4. The omission of Ptolemy’s table of termsConclusionAddendumChapter V: The Contribution of Moerbeke’s Translation to the Edition of the Greek Text 1. Book I 2. Book II 3. Book III 4. Book IV Appendix I: The Astrological Note Translated by Moerbeke Appendix II: The Conclusion of the Apotelesmatica Editorial Principles 1. Text 2. Latin apparatus 3. Greek-Latin comparative apparatus Bibliography Claudii Ptolemaei Liber Ludicialium translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka Conspectus siglorum LIBER I Cap. primum: Prohemium Cap. 2m: Quod pronosticatio per astronomiam sit possibilis et usque ad quid Cap. 3m: Quod etiam sit proficua Cap. 4m: De uirtute errantium astrorum Cap. 5m: De beneficis et maleficis Cap. 6m: De masculinis et femininis Cap. 7m: De diurnis et nocturnis Cap. 8m: De uirtute configurationum ad solem Cap. 9m: De stellarum fixarum uirtute Cap. 10m: De temporibus anni Cap. 11m: De uirtute angulorum Cap. 12m: De tropicis et equinoctialibus et fixis et bicorporeis signis Cap. 13m: De masculinis et femininis signis Cap. 14m: De signis duodecim que ad inuicem configurantur Cap. 15m: De imperantibus et obedientibus similiter signis Cap. 16m: De aspicientibus et equipotentibus inuicem signis Cap. 17m: De inconnexis Cap. 18m: De domibus uniuscuiusque planete Cap. 19m: De triplicitatibus Cap. 20m: De exaltationibus Cap. 21m: De terminorum dispositione Cap. 22m: De locis et partibus uniuscuiusque Cap. 23m: De faciebus et claritatibus et talibus Cap. 24m: De coniunctionibus et refluxionibus et aliis uirtutibus LIBER II Cap. primum: Diuisio totius intentionis Cap. 2m: De proprietatibus secundum omnia climata Cap. 3m: De conuenientia regionum ad trigonalitates et ad stellas Cap. 4m: Expositio regionum que referuntur ad unumquodque signorum Cap. 5m: Accessus in particulares effectus eclipsium Cap. 6m: De consideratione dispositarum regionum Cap. 7m: De tempore effectuum Cap. 8m: De genere [autem] dispositorum Cap. 9m: De qualitate ipsius effectus Cap. 10m: De coloribus eclipsium et cometarum et talium Cap. 11m: De innouatione anni Cap. 12m: De particulari animalium natura ad consistentias Cap. 13m: De particulari consideratione consistentiarum Cap. 14m: De ea que ex metheoris significatione LIBER III Cap. primum: Prohemium Cap. 2m: De seminatione et partu Cap. 3m: De gradu horoscopi Cap. 4m [3]: Quomodo oportet accipere horoscopum Cap. 5m [4]: Diuisio geneatici sermonis Cap. 6m [5]: De parentibus Cap. 7m [6]: De fratribus Cap. 8m [7]: De masculinis et femininis Cap. 9m [8]: De gemellis Cap. 10m [9]: De monstris Cap. 11m [10]: De non cibatis Cap. 12m [11]: De annis uite Cap. 13m [12]: De forma et complexione corporali Cap. 14m [13]: De lesura et passionibus Cap. 15m [14]: De qualitate anime Cap. 16m [15]: De passionibus animalibus LIBER IV Cap. primum: Prohemium Cap. 2m: De fortuna possessoria Cap. 3m: De fortuna dignitatiua Cap. 4m: De qualitate operationis Cap. 5m: De coniugiis Cap. 6m: De natis Cap. 7m: De amicis et inimicis Cap. 8m: De peregrinatione Cap. 9m: De qualitate mortis Cap. 10m: De temporum diuisione I. Index graeco-latinus II. Index latino-graecus III. Supplementum latinum

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Book SynopsisThe particular focus of this volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance. In each period, the Timaeus was read in a different context and from different perspectives. During the Middle Ages, scholars were mostly interested in reconciling the rational cosmology of the Timaeus with the Christian understanding of creation. In Late Antiquity, the concordance of Plato with Aristotle was considered the most important issue, whereas in early modern times, the confrontation with the new mathematical physics offered possibilities for a fresh assessment of Plato's explanation of the cosmos. The present volume has three sections corresponding to these three periods of interpreting the Timaeus, each sectionis introduced by a synthesis of the main issues at discussion. This 'epochal' approach gives this volume its particular character.Table of ContentsThomas Leinkauf - Carlos SteelPrefaceThomas LeinkaufVorwortI. SpätantikeFranco Ferrari (Salerno)Interpretare il TimeoChristoph Helmig (Leuven)Die Weltentstehung des Timaios - zum kosmologischen Hintergrund von Plutarchs De sera numinis vindicta 550 D-EWalter Mesch (Heidelberg)Plotins Deutung der platonischen Weltseele. Zur antiken Rezeptionsgeschichte von Timaios 35 AJan Opsomer (Köln)A craftsman and his handmaiden. Demiurgy according to PLotinusAlain Lernould (Lille)En quoi la physique du Timée est-elle encore selon Proclus un 'eikos logos'?Carlos Steel (Leuven)Proclus' defence of the Timaeus against Aristotle's abjections. A reconstruction of a lost polemical treatiseGuy Guldentops (Leuven)Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In de caelo. A confrontation with AlexanderII. MittelalterAndreas Speer (Köln)Lectio physica. Anmerkungen zur Timaios-Rezeption im MittelalterTheo Kobusch (Bonn)Der Timaios in ChartresEdouard Jeauneau (Paris)Du désordre à l'ordre (Timée 30 A)Alexander Fidora (Frankfurt/M)Die Ursachenlehre des Isaak von Stella im Anschluss and Platons TimaiosAda Neschke-Hentschke (Lausanne)Die iustitia naturalis gemäss Platos Timaios in den Deutungen der Dekretisten des XII. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Archäologie der MenschenrechtePaul Edward Dutton (Burnady)Holding women in common. A particular Platonic problem for the twelfth centuryHenryk Anzulewicz (Bonn)Die Timaios-Rezeption bei Albertus MagnusIII. Renaissance/Frühe NeuzeitThomas Leinkauf (Münster)Aspekte und Perspektiven der Präsenz des Timaios in Renaissance und Früher NeuzeitJames Hankins (Harvard)Plato's psychogony in the later Renaissance: changing attitudes to the christianization of pagan philosophyMischa Von Perger (Neusäss)Paolo Benis Timaios-Kommentar - eine christliche Kritik an aristotelischen und neuplatonischen InterpretationenKarin Hartbecke (Halle)Der Timaios in der französischen AufklärungIndices

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Book SynopsisThe 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. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewIt would require an undue amount of space to list all of the aspects that make this edition of Bate’s Nativitasan arresting source for anyone interested in medieval intellectual and cultural history. Most importantly, perhaps, the book subtly undermines facile clichés about the nature of medieval astrology and in their place gives us a glimpse of the inner workings of the art, revealing an occasionally stunning degree of complexity and psychological depth.C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Volume 50 Issue 2, May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828619834390This is the first complete Latin edition of Bate's Nativitas, and it is an impressive scholarly achievement whose depths can only be hinted at in this review. Not only have the editors produced the definitive edition of Bate's text, they have also written what amounts to a separate monograph to contextualize it.Justin Lake, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.09.58'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.Studi Medievali 2019, IIDie insgesamt äußerst sorgfältige Edition macht damit einen Text verfügbar, der eine Vielzahl von Einblicken in die Welt des späten 13. Jahrhunderts eröffnet. Auch jenseits der Forschung zur Geschichte der Astrologie ist dem Werk daher uneingeschränkt eine breite Rezeption zu wünschen. Klaus Oschema, The Medieval Review 20.04.06Bate’s rich treatise touches on more themes than the editorial team could begin to address; I flagged several passages to which I wish to return in my own work on astrology and prophecy. For all of these reasons, 'The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher' is a real gift, for which scholars will long remain in the editors’ debt. Laura Ackerman Smoller, Isis—Volume 111, Number 3, September 2020Cette publication de la Nativitas, l’autobiographie astrologique du savant et philosophe Henri Bate de Malines (1246 – après 1310), un texte unique en son genre, représente un événement attendu depuis près d’un siècle avec la publication, en 1924, d’un article du grand historien des sciences Aleksander Birkenmajer, qui résumait sa thèse sur Henri Bate, restée inédite. Le présent volume, issu de la collaboration entre quatre chercheurs de renom, vient donc combler un vide important, dont on comprend très bien qu’il ait duré si longtemps, considérant l’extrême difficulté de la matière.Jean-Patrice Boudet, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 56,1 (2021)Das Buch ist ein schönes Beispiel dafür, was in Kooperation erreichbar ist – es handelt sich um eine mustergültige Edition, die man sich für so manchen astrologischen Quellentext wünschen würde. Günther Oestmann, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 77. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 2021 Table of ContentsPreface 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 β: 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 α 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 works3.1.1. 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. Translations3.2.1. Alkindi, Liber de iudiciis revolutionum annorum mundi (1278) 3.2.2. Abraham Avenezra, De mundo vel seculo I [Sefer ha-ʿolam I] (1281) 3.2.3. Abraham Avenezra, De luminaribus [Sefer ha-meʾorot] (1292) 3.2.4. Abraham Avenezra, Introductorius ad astronomiam [Reshit ḥokhmah] (1292) 3.2.5. Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum I [Sefer ha-ṭeʿamim I] (1292) 3.2.6. Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum II [Sefer ha-ṭeʿamim II] (1292) 3.2.7. Abraham Avenezra, Liber introductionis ad iudicia astrologie [Mishpeṭei 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 sources5.3. 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 house7.5.1. 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 introductionNativitas 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

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