This quantity deals the 1st severe variation of the Hebrew textual content, with English translation and remark, of 7 astrological treatises by means of Abraham Ibn Ezra: the ebook of Elections (3 versions); the ebook of Interrogations (3 versions); and the booklet of the Luminaries. This quantity, then, covers the astrological doctrine of elections, that's occupied with discovering the simplest time to start a selected job; the doctrine of interrogations, designed to permit astrologers to respond to questions regarding lifestyle; and the astrological idea in the back of the doctrine of the severe days, whilst marked adjustments ensue within the indicators of a sickness. those 3 structures of astrology have been mixed in one quantity simply because Ibn Ezra considers them to be heavily interrelated.
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Paper, ×mm, stained, worm-eaten, torn on the edges, Sephardi hand, fourteenth/fifteenth century; copyist named as Qalonymos ben Qalonymos; idiosyncratic good points, comparable to the scribe’s inclination to pass, abbreviate, and paraphrase, or to take advantage of constant substitute terminology, equivalent to çøé rather than äðáì for the Moon: Reshit Hokhmah I, ff. a–a; . Mivharim II, ff. b, b–a; Te#amim I, ff. a–a; Sefer ha-Moladot, . . ff. a–b; She"elot II, ff. a–b; Mishpet. ei ha-Mazzalot, ff. b–b; Sefer ha-Me"orot, ff. a–a; #Olam I, ff. a–a. Used for the serious variation of Mivharim II. . ø Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magl. III. (IMHM: F ). Italian hand, 15th century: Sefer ha-Me"orot, ff. b–b; #Olam II, introduction ff. b–b; She"elot II, ff. b–a; Te#amim II, ff. b–b; . Mivharim II, ff. b–b; Sefer ha-Me"orot, ff. b–a. Used for the . serious variations of Mivharim II and She"elot II. . ù Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Hebr. , (IMHM: F ). Italian hand, fourteenth/fifteenth century: #Olam I, ff. a–a, She"elot I, ff. a–a; Te#amim I, ff. a–b; Reshit Hokhmah I, ff. –a; . . Mivharim I, ff. b–a. Used for the severe versions of Mivharim I . . and She"elot I. ú Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana ebr. (IMHM: F ). Byzantine hand, dated : Reshit Hokhmah I, ff. a–a; She"elot I, ff. a– . a; Mivharim I, ff. b–a; Te#amim I, ff. a–a; Sefer ha-Moladot, . . ff. a–b; Sefer ha-Me"orot, ff. b–a; #Olam I, ff. a–b. Used for the severe version of Sefer ha-Me"orot. Editorial and Translation ideas Mivharim I, seven MSS: ùòîìéèã. A scrutiny of the variae lectiones . printed powerful affinities between MSS ãî,200 at the one hand, and between MSS ìè,201 at the different, not like MSS ùòé. MS ò (Oxford, Bodleian Library, upload. Qu. ), the oldest of the twenty manuscripts utilized in this quantity, served because the replica textual content for Mivharim I. . Mivharim II, seven MSS: ø÷ôîëçæ . households of manuscripts have been . detected: MSS æîô, at the one hand, and MSS ø÷ëç, at the different. 202 MS ÷ (Cambridge, college Library, upload. ) used to be chosen because the replica textual content. it sounds as if to were copied by way of the recognized translator Qalonymos ben Qalonymos (the most likely explanation for its peculiarities and mannerisms, two hundred See the subsequent variae lectiones: §. :, n. ; §. :, n. ; §. :, n. ; §. :, n. ; §. :, n. . 201 See the next variae lectiones: §:, n. ; §. :, n. . 202 See the subsequent variae lectiones: §:, n. ; §:, n. ; §:, n. ; §. :, n. ; §. :–, nn. , , , . creation akin to the constant use of çøé rather than äðáì and øåæð rather than øæåç øåçàì) and screens trustworthy readings in frustrating loci. 203 She"elot I, seven MSS: ùñîìéáà. A scrutiny of the variae lectiones published households: MSS àîùáñ, at the one hand, and MSS ìé at the different. 204 MS ñ (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, héb. ), one of many oldest and finest, regardless of being illegible in elements, served because the reproduction textual content.