Study on Arabic and Latin texts on Islamic astronomy

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We have published the astrological text of al-Qabisi, an astronomer of 10^<th> century, as the second volume of Warburg Institute Studies and Texts in 2004. The Introduction to Astrology contains an Arabic edition based on eight manuscripts, its English translation, and an edition of the Latin translation made in 12^<th> century, together with glossaries of Arabic-Latin and Latin-Arabic. And it has an edition of his treatise preserved in Latin only, i.e. De coniunctionibus planetarum in duodecim signis et earum pro, as an appendix with an English translation.As for his astronomical treatise, the treatise on the testing of those who call themselves astrologers, both the Arabic text and the English translation are almost completed with some queationable parts.As for treatise on distances and bodies, an Arabic text is almost completed, but the English translation is not finished yet.As for a commentary on al-Farghani's astronomical work, i.e. the explanation of the Book of the Chapters, the condition of the unique manuscript is not good. We made little progress in editing the Arabic text. Since we found that the work of al-Farghani itself had many variations among several manuscripts, it is necessary to edit the text before working on the Qabisi's commentary.