De Ludiciis Natiuitatum Albohali Nuremberg 1546

Abu Ali al-Khayyat (c.770 - c.835), often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources, (or Albohali Alghihac, Albohali Alchait or Albenahait), was an Arab astrologer and a student of

Mashallah ''Mashallah'' ( ar, مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, '), also written Masha'Allah, Maşallah (Turkey and Azerbaijan), Masya Allah (Malaysia and Indonesia), Maschallah (Germany), and Mašallah ( Bosnia), is an Arabic phrase that is used to expre ...

. Al-Khayyat's ''Kitāb al-Mawālid'', "Book of Birth", was translated into Latin by

Plato of Tivoli Plato Tiburtinus ( la, Plato Tiburtinus, "Plato of Tivoli"; fl. 12th century) was a 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for translating Hebrew and Arabic document ...

in 1136, and again by

Johannes Hispalensis John of Seville (Latin: ''Johannes Hispalensis'' or ''Johannes Hispaniensis'') ( fl. 1133-53) was one of the main translators from Arabic into Castilian in partnership with Dominicus Gundissalinus during the early days of the Toledo School of Tran ...

in 1153, and this last translation was printed in Nuremberg in 1546 under the title ''Albohali Arabis astrologi antiquissimi ac clarissimi de iudiciis nativitatum liber unus antehac non editus. Cum privilegio D. Iohanni Shonero concesso''. Elements of his ''Kitāb Sirr al-ʿamal'', "Book of the secret action", are also reproduced in the 12th century ''Book of Nine Judges'', compiled by

Hugo of Santalla Hugo of Santalla (also Hugh of Santalla, of Sanctalla, Hugo Sanctelliensis) was a significant translator of the first part of the twelfth century. From Arabic originals, he produced Latin translations of texts on alchemy, astronomy, astrology and ge ...

. The material has been described as being largely taken from the work of Mashalla but in several places borrowing from the work of

Omar Tiberiades Omar Tiberiades or Abû Hafs 'Umar ibn Farrukhân Tabarî (d. ca. 815), (Persian ابن فرخان طبری) was a Medieval Persian astrologer and architect from Tabaristan. The historical Tabaristan region is in the present-day Mazandaran Provi ...

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* ''Kitāb Sirr al-ʿamal'' "Book of the secret action" - an English translation of the extracts that appear in the ''Book of Nine Judges'' was made in 2011 by Benjamin N. Dykes (Minneapolis: Cazimi Press). * ''Kitāb al-Mawālid'' "Book of Birth"- an English translation was made by James Herschel Holden, ''The Judgments of Nativities'' (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2008) from the 1546 Nuremberg edition.

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