Abrahe Auenaris Judei Astrologi Peritissimi In Re Iudicali Opera. [Ten separate astronomical / astrological works]

IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM

Petri Liechtenstein

Venice

1507

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Translated by Petro de Albano. Gothic type with woodcut initials.

Osler 1713

THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF IBN EZRA’S TEN ASTROLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL TRACTS IN LATIN. As a Biblical exegete, ibn Ezra’s commentaries contributed to the celebrated Golden Age of Spanish Jewry. As a Neoplatonic philosopher and astronomer he was one of the leaders of the movement which caused the Jews of Provence, Spain and Italy to become the transmitters of Moslem Science to the Christian West. His works on astronomy were known to have been owned by Christopher Colombus. See R. Levi, Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literature and Languages, vol. VIII: The Astrological Works of Abraham ibn Ezra (1927); L. Thorndike, “The Latin Translations of the Astrolgical Tracts of Abraham Avenezra, Isis, (1944) pp. 293-302. And see also A. Marx, The Scientific Work of Some Outstanding Mediaeval Jewish Scholars, in: Essays and Studies in Memory of L.R. Miller (1938) p.140 “The versatility of ibn Ezra…in all branches of mathematics is astonishing.” Provenance: The French historian and statesman, Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) with his bibliographical notes laid in.