Actually for test purposes you can rig up a single battery and four switches and provide the logic switching in order to step the motor, you may require a resistor in series with the centre tap of each set of coils to limit the current, depending on what battery voltage you use to limit the current in your case to 1.5amps.
You can sequence the switches in the right order and get rotation.
I can post the sequence if you cannot find it.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.