Horoscope

A Jewish astrologer provided this Latin nativity horoscope for a child born in 1135 in Béziers, in southern France, perhaps dictating the interpretation in a Romance vernacular while a Christian scholar translated it into Latin. It appears likely that the child was Christian, although no religious specifics are identified. The horoscope is attributed to Abraham the Jew, and it has been argued that this Abraham was none other than Abraham Ibn Ezra, who is known to have been in Béziers at the time and who wrote many works on astrology. The horoscope is included in a Latin manuscript that contains a number of texts associated with the twelfth-century Raymond of Marseilles, who wrote about the astrolabe and related matters.