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Wuzurgmihr (ca 531 – 579 CE)
Persian astrologer, active during the kingdom of Xusraw I (531–579), generally identified
with the famous vizir, son of Bo ̄xtag, of the same Sasanian sˇa ̄h, an association debated by
scholars (cf. B). According to Arabic sources, Wuzurgmihr (also Buzurj ̆mihr and
other spellings) translated V V’ Anthologies into Pahlavi, augmenting the Greek
with Indian and Iranian sources concerning katarkhic and interrogative astrology, “con-
tinuous” horoscopy and genethlialogy. The Pahlavi title of this important astrological
treatise must have been *W ̄ız ̄ıdag “Selections” (al-Biz ̄ıdaj in Arabic). The Pahlavi original
was used by Ma ̄sˇa ̄’alla ̄h in his Kita ̄b al-mawa ̄l ̄ıd “The book of the nativities” (partly incorpor-
ated into Hugo of Santalla’s Liber Aristotilis), and referred to in other works by Ma ̄sˇa ̄’alla ̄h.
The Cod. Vat.Gr. 1056, ff.81V–82 directly attests “Porzozómchar” (i.e., Wuzurgmihr). See
also P, T I.
Nallino (1922) 351–357 = (1948) 291–296; D.E. Pingree, “The Indian and Pseudo-Indian Passages in
Greek and Latin Astronomical Texts,” Viator 7 (1976) 170, 187; Idem (1989); EI 4 (1990) 427–429,
D.K. Motlagh (s.v. Bozorgmehr); Ch. Burnett and D.E. Pingree, The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of
Santalla (1997); Antonio Panaino, La novella degli scacchi (1999) 107–123.
Antonio Panaino