Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa

One of the subjects Arabic astrologers dealt with in the medieval era was the animodar of conception, which used lunar cycles to determine gestation times and to verify the degree of an ascendant, in accordance with one of the principles of Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium. This paper investigates...

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Autor: Díaz-Fajardo, Montse
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
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Palabra clave:Astrologia àrab
Manuscrits àrabs
Arab astrology
Arabic manuscripts
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spelling Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North AfricaDíaz-Fajardo, MontseAstrologia àrabManuscrits àrabsArab astrologyArabic manuscriptsOne of the subjects Arabic astrologers dealt with in the medieval era was the animodar of conception, which used lunar cycles to determine gestation times and to verify the degree of an ascendant, in accordance with one of the principles of Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium. This paper investigates Ibn al-Kammād's treatise on the animodar of conception edited and translated from Arabic manuscript 939 at the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid. The special significance attached to the animodar by later astrologers had two consequences for Ibn al-Kammād's treatise. First, the treatise, which was initially one of several parts of a book, has arrived to us as a self-contained piece, probably because it was already regarded as such in medieval times. Second, the initial contents in Ibn al-Kammād's treatise gradually underwent a transformation due to the addition of a number of materials associated with the animodar. Keywords: Ibn al-Kammād, Ibn Hilāl, Pseudo-Ptolemy, Vettius Valens, periods of gestation, lunar cycles, ascendant, animodar of conception.Universitat de Barcelona2016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/122026Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Suhayl/article/view/329909Suhayl. Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islam, 2016, vol. 15, p. 129-229cc-by-nc-nd (c) Díaz-Fajardo, Montse, 2016http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1220262026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
title Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
spellingShingle Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
Díaz-Fajardo, Montse
Astrologia àrab
Manuscrits àrabs
Arab astrology
Arabic manuscripts
title_short Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
title_full Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
title_fullStr Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
title_full_unstemmed Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
title_sort Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Díaz-Fajardo, Montse
author Díaz-Fajardo, Montse
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Astrologia àrab
Manuscrits àrabs
Arab astrology
Arabic manuscripts
topic Astrologia àrab
Manuscrits àrabs
Arab astrology
Arabic manuscripts
description One of the subjects Arabic astrologers dealt with in the medieval era was the animodar of conception, which used lunar cycles to determine gestation times and to verify the degree of an ascendant, in accordance with one of the principles of Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium. This paper investigates Ibn al-Kammād's treatise on the animodar of conception edited and translated from Arabic manuscript 939 at the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid. The special significance attached to the animodar by later astrologers had two consequences for Ibn al-Kammād's treatise. First, the treatise, which was initially one of several parts of a book, has arrived to us as a self-contained piece, probably because it was already regarded as such in medieval times. Second, the initial contents in Ibn al-Kammād's treatise gradually underwent a transformation due to the addition of a number of materials associated with the animodar. Keywords: Ibn al-Kammād, Ibn Hilāl, Pseudo-Ptolemy, Vettius Valens, periods of gestation, lunar cycles, ascendant, animodar of conception.
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