Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Book
ܟܬܒܐ
(ktābā, Book)

Author:

Andronicus

Period covered:

Unknown

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work was probably an astrological treatise and is quoted in the Syriac Book of medicine with regard to previsions based on shooting stars. Andronicus is also mentioned among the sources of the longest version of the so-called Milhah of Daniel, a pseudepigraphic text containing celestial omens, preserved only in Arabic but allegedly translated from Syriac.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Book of Medicine [Budge 1913 (ed): 442, 452 and 1913 (tr): 521, 654]

Users:

Sources:

Bibliography:

E.W. Budge (1913) (ed) Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics, or: The book of medicine. Volume One. London e.a.
E.W. Budge (1913) (tr) Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics, or: The book of medicine. Volume Two. London e.a.
M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 520.
G. Furlani (1921) 'Astrologische aus syrischen Handschriften'. Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlänischen Gesellschaft 75: 121-128.
G. Furlani (1921) 'Eine Sammlung astrologischer Abhandlungen in arabischer Sprache'. Zeitschrift der Astrologie 33: 157-168.
D. Pingree (1990) 'Astrology'. In: Religion, learning and science in the Abbasid period, ed. M.J.L. Young - J.D. Latham - R.B. Serjeant. Cambridge: 291-300.