Search

Subject Astrology--Early works to 1800 Digitised Content Yes (available) Level [40] File

1. Add MS 7473, ff 59r-63v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7473, ff 59r-63v
Title:
al-Mukhtṣar fī al-qirānāt المختصر في القرانات Ibn Abī Ṭāhir 　إبن أبي طاهر
Scope & Content:
Astrological treatise on conjunctions by Abū al-Qāsim al-Muẓaffar ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Ṣamad known as Ibn Abī Ṭāhir (أبو القاسم المظفر بن علي بن المظفر بن محمد بن عبد الصمد المعروف بابن أبي طاهر). Begins (f. 59r, lines 2-7): تحويل قران الملة العربية وهو قيام النبي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 59r-63v

2. Add MS 7473, ff 173r-175v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7473, ff 173r-175v
Title:
al-Qawl fī al-namūdhārāt القول في نموذارات Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:
A short astrological treatise on nativities (مواليد) by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد البلخي; d. 886). Contents: Begins (f. 173r, lines 2-4): قال أبو معشر حعفر بن محمد وجدنا من قول الأوائل في مسقط النطفة ومن قول يعقوب بن طارق اختلافًا وذلك أن الذي حدّ الأوا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 173r-175v

3. Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v
Title:
Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kammīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي
Scope & Content:
Astrological treatise on Arab hegemony and its duration by the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873). The colophon (f. 178r, lines 3-4, transcribed below) states that the text was copied from an exemplar dated mid-Rabī‘ I 531/December 1136. Appended to the tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 175v-178v

4. IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v
Title:
Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:
Astrological treatise also known as Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (كتاب المدخل في صناعة أحكام النجوم) and Mujmal al-uṣūl fī aḥkām al-nujūm (مجمل الأصول في أحكام النجوم) in four chapters (مقالات), composed in the late 10th century by Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-J...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:

Ff. 14v-32v

5. Or 5591, f 161v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, f 161v
Title:
Faṣl fī al-qirānāt فصل في القرانات
Scope & Content:
Short section listing six types of conjunction. 　 Begins (f. 161v, lines 1-4): ... والأمور الدالة على التغيرات في هذا العالم من القرانات وغيرها ستة أعظمها قران زحل والمشتري في برج الحمل وذلك يكون في كل تسسع مائة وستين سسنة ... Ends (f. 161v, lines 10-12): والخامس نزول النير الأعظم نقطة ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

F. 161v

6. Or 5591, ff 20r-20v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 20r-20v
Title:
Bāb dhikr sāʻāt al-kawākib باب ذكر ساعات الكواكب
Scope & Content:
Brief chapter without indication of authorship on the activities appropriate to the hours of the day associated with each of the seven planets and the conditions (أحوال) of the Moon. This text is numbered 2 (ب) in the present collection. Begins (f. 20r, lines 2-3) ساعات الشمس محمودة لعلاج الط...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 20r-20v

7. Or 5591, ff 21v-23r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 21v-23r
Title:
Bāb fī ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib wa-al-shams باب في اتصالات القمر بالكواكب والشمس
Scope & Content:
Chapter without indication of authorship on the election of propitous times for activities based on the Moon's applications (ittiṣālāt): sextile (tasdīs), quartile (tarbīʻ), trine (tathlīth), opposition (muqābala) and conjunction (muqārana). This text is numbered 3 (ج) in the present collection...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 21v-23r

8. Or 5591, ff 23v-50r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 23v-50r
Title:
Kitāb al-dalālāt ʻalá al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar wa-ashrāfihā wa-hubūṭātihā wa-istiqāmātihā wa-rujūʻihā wa-ẓuhūrihā wa-ghaybātihā wa-kawnihā maʻa al-raʼs wa-al-dhanab كتاب الدلالات على الاتصالات وقرانات الكواكب في البروج الاثنا عشر وأشرافها وهبوطاتها واستقاماتها ورجوعها وظهورها وغيباتها وكونها مع الرأس والذنب
Scope & Content:
Handbook for making astrological predictions based onthe conjunctions of the planets and the lunar nodes in the various signs of the zodiac. A marginalium beside the title at the head of f. 23v gives the text an alternative short title: The Book of Judgements (كتاب الأحكام). Sezgin (Geschichte ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 23v-50r

9. Or 5591, ff 68v-89r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 68v-89r
Title:
Kitāb al-ḥukm ʻinda ṭulūʻ al-shiʻrá كتاب الحكم عند طلوع الشعرى Hermes هرمس
Scope & Content:
Handbook on making astrological judgments based on the rising of Sirius (الشعرى). As with the first item (ff. 3r-18r) in the present manuscript, this text belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 68v-89r

10. Or 5591, ff 90r-93v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 90r-93v
Title:
Instructions for talisman making
Scope & Content:
Two sets of instructions for making talismans. The first set gives instructions for solar talismans to be made at the arrival of the Sun in each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The second set gives instructions for making a talisman of Jupiter. This text is numbered 7 (ز) in the present coll...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 90r-93v