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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Astrology--Early works to 1800 Level [32] Fonds

1. Delhi Arabic 1916

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1916
Title:
Kitāb al-masā’il كتاب المسائل Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي
Scope & Content:
Two volumes (جزءان) of an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century). Both volumes were copied in Mamluk Egypt, the title pages of the volumes label them as Volume One and Vol...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
640 and 768
Extent:

Two codices

2. Or 5709

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5709
Title:
al-Mukhtār min kutub al-ikhtiyārāt al-falakīyah المختار من كتب الاختيارات الفلكية Takrītī, Yaḥyá ibn Jarīr تكريتي، يحيى بن جرير
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the selection of propitious astrological moments (astrological elections), copied 28 Ramaḍān 646/14 January 1249 by the scribe Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿIzz al-ʿAskarī (أحمد بن محمد بن أبي العز العسكري, see colophon, f. 158r, line 16). It was written by Abū Naṣr Yaḥyá ibn Ja...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Ramaḍān 646
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+159+i

3. Or 8349

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8349
Title:
Kitāb al-tafhīm li-awā’il ṣinā‘at al-tanjīm كتاب التفهيم لأوائل صناعة التنجيم Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive introduction to the principles of astrology by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The text is written in question and answer format (على طريق المسئلة والجواب, f. 2v, line 8), and it deals with the sciences needed by the astr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
839
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+159+ii

4. Or 9011

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9011
Title:
Kitāb Jāmiʻ li-ʻilm aḥkām al-masāʼil
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 1200
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+348+ii

5. Or 12802

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12802
Title:
Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah كتاب الأحكام على النسبة الفلكية Sahl ibn Bishr سهل بن بشر
Scope & Content:
A treatise on interrogatory astrology by Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī (أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي; AD 786-c 845). The copy was produced by an anonymous scribe on the night of 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093 (5 December 1682). Folio 45r contains an astrological table written by a hand that a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+45+iii

6. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125