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Introduction Among the many treasures of the Cairo Genizah—the used-paper storage room of a medieval synagogue, used from the eleventh to the nineteenth century—lie many hundreds of astrological and related fragments, in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. While a handful of these texts have already been published, the vast majority have never been studied, or even catalogued or identiied in a satisfac- tory manner. Et subdit: corpus caret vita deiciente spiritu. Carmody [see below n.

In the present paper, we wish to edit some of the Judaeo-Arabic text of which we plan to ofer a full edition elsewhere , compare it with the Latin versions, and ofer some preliminary thoughts on the signii- cance of this new ind.

We begin with a brief description of the frag- ments and their contents, turn to a comparison of the Judaeo-Arabic and the Latin versions, and end with a few general comments on the historical context of these Genizah fragments of two central texts of Arabic astro-magical literature.

Manuscript A T aylor -S chechter Ar abic Taylor-Schechter Ar. Reproduced by courtesy of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. As is oten the case, the innermost bifolium in the quire is fully preserved, the sec- ond from the inside has some holes, the third has larger holes, and of the outermost only ca. T-S Ar. Unfortunately, the irst line of the recto of Ar. On the other hand, the text is likely to have been much longer than twenty pages, so the origi- nal manuscript must have contained one or more additional quires.

From the beginning of Ar. It thus seems extremely unlikely that the missing folio of our quire would have cov- ered all the decans of ten more zodiac signs, and so our manuscript probably contained one more quire, and perhaps even more, and cov- ered all thirty-six decans, with one or more talisman per decan.

Below, we ofer a synoptic edition of the Judaeo-Arabic and Latin versions of samples of both parts of this long talismanic text. Such information is likely to have been provided by the colo- phon, which may one day be discovered in another Genizah fragment, but which we currently do not have. We thus have no indication as to who our copyist was or what he thought he was copying. Manuscript B T-S Ar. From the size of the missing sections, it seems clear that the original bifolium had up to 27 lines per page.

As manuscript A is characterized by up to 22 lines per page, it seems that in manuscript B he used his folios more eiciently than in manuscript A. From the size of the missing sections, it seems clear that the original bifolium had ca. When examined together, both fragments seem to be the innermost Ar.

It is clear that the bottom part of the quire was torn of before its bifo- lia became separate, hence the uniformity of the tear on both bifolia. While not much can be said about the contents of manuscript B, of which we have only the top halves of two bifolios, the preserved text is so close to that of manuscript A that one of these manuscripts must have been copied from the other rather than both being independent transcriptions of the original Arabic text , but it is not yet clear to us which came irst.

In both cases, the Judaeo-Arabic enables one to choose more likely readings than those provided by the previous editors. Italics indicate divergences in the Latin; bold indicates additions in the Latin text, angle brackets, omissions.

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Ritter, Das Ziel des Weisen. Arabischer Text, Leipzig, Masarra m. Isaac, quien a veces se confunde con Guglielmo. Qurra m. X o el mismo Picatrix X con algunas variaciones, Ibn Qutayba mediados del s. En el Urb. Compagni ed. Zayd s. Fierro y J. Kunitzsch, M. Folkerts y R. Lorch, Sic itur ad astra. Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, , Para un estudio comparativo entre el Picatrix y el Lapidario ver los trabajos de J.

Nunemaker y sus desarrollos en Forcada, M. Diman y L. Winget eds. Estos cuadrados se pueden encontrar en diferentes tradiciones, pero es en el Islam donde han recibido un ma- yor desarrollo Ramsay Wright trad. En efecto, los signos zodiacales se oponen mutuamente. Cuando se ponen empieza la lluvia Su imagen es la de un rey coronado.

Su imagen es un hombre con dos Kunitzsch, P. Dozy ed. Pellat trad. Forcada ed. Su imagen son dos personas abrazadas Ritter, Su imagen es la de un hombre de pie extendiendo las manos como si suplicase Schjellerup, H.