Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus on Elections and Interrogations: A Parallel Latin-English Critical Edition of Liber Electionum, Liber Interrogationum, and Tractatus Particulares

Leiden: Brill, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xix, (1), 633, (1)pp. Index, bibliography and glossary. Text in English, Latin and Hebrew. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. A fine, as new copy.

As a result of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s increasing popularity after his death, there were repeated waves of translation of collections of his Hebrew astrological treatises into Latin and into the emerging European vernaculars. A study of these versions affords us a golden opportunity to shed light on a significant missing (truncated) link in our knowledge of Ibn Ezra’s astrological oeuvre. The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of three Latin texts on the astrological doctrines of elections and interrogations, written by or attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Liber electionum, the Liber interrogationum, and the Tractatus particulares. (Publisher)

Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Contacts with Christian Scholars in the Twelfth Century -- The Ibn Ezra Renaissance in the Latin West -- Liber Electionum , Liber Interrogationum , and Tractatus Particulares -- I Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Earlier Research on Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Authorship, Links with Ibn Ezra's Work, and the Dates of Composition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Ibn Ezra's Approach to Elections in Liber Electionum -- Ibn Ezra's Approach to Interrogations in Liber Interrogationum -- The Organization and Contents of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- The Sources of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Special Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Linguistic Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- II Tractatus Particulares -- Earlier Research on Tractatus Particulares -- Manuscripts, General Features and Transmission of Tp A and Tp Q -- Structure and General Features of Tp A and Tp Q according to Their Incipits and Explicits -- Contents and Sources of Tp A and Tp Q -- General Features of Tp H -- III Manuscripts and Editorial Principles -- Manuscripts for the Critical Edition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Witnesses for the Critical Edition of Tractatus Particulares -- Editorial and Translation Principles -- Part One: Liber Electionum : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Two: Notes to Liber Electionum -- Part Three: Liber Interrogationum : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Four: Notes to Liber Interrogationum -- Part Five: Tractatus Particulares : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Six: Notes to Tractatus Particulares -- Part Seven: Appendices -- 1 The Debate about Elections -- 2 The Debate about Interrogations -- 3 Elections -- 4 Interrogations -- 5 Planets, Signs and Horoscopic Places -- 6 The Modena Fragments of Mivḥarim III and Sheʼelot III -- 7 Passages of Sheʼelot le-Māshāʼallāh in Tractatus Particulares -- 8 A Section of Sheʼelot le-Talmai and Its Counterpart in Ptolemy's Iudicia -- 9 Significationes Planetarum in Domibus Ascribed to Gergis -- 10 The Account of the Seven Planets in Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot -- 11 Māshāʼallāh's Book on Reading Thoughts -- 12 The Section on Elections at the End of Nativitates -- 13 Fragments of Epistola Argafalau ad Alexandrum -- 14 English-Latin Glossary -- 15 Latin-English Index to the English-Latin Glossary -- 16 Authorities and Sources -- 17 Literal Renderings in Liber Electionum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra -- 18 Literal Renderings in Liber Interrogationum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra -- 19 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Electionum , Mivḥarim I, Mivḥarim II, and Epitome -- 20 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Interrogationum , Sheʼelot I, Sheʼelot II, and Epitome -- 21 Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Volume 83 in the Brill series "Etudes sur la Judaisme Medieval." (EJM). Also, Volume 7 in the Brill series, "Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings. (Inventory #: 52356)