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Subject Astrology--Early works to 1800 Level [40] File

11. Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v

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Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v
Title:
Bāb yuʻraf minhā manāzil al-qamar باب يعرف منها منازل القمر
Scope & Content:
Brief chapter explaining how to use a table to discover which station the moon is in on any given day of the year. See the 'Section of the circle from which can be known which station and which sign of the zodiac the new moon of each month will be in and the method for each of them' (فصل دائرة ي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
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Ff. 132r-132v

12. Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r

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Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r
Title:
Two chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:
Two chapters (بابان) on astrology taken from one or more texts: (1) Chapter of knowing the years by the stationing of the Moon in the signs of the zodiac (باب في معرفة السنين بنزول القمر في البروج, ff.146v-148v);(2) Chapter of the signs of the crescents in the Arabic [months] (باب علامات الأهلة ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 146v-149r

13. Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v

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Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz أبو الصلت، أميّة بن عبد العزيز
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Extract from the Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب) by the Andalusian polymath Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (أبو الصلت أميّة بن عبد العزيز بن أبي الصلت الداني الأندلسي, d. 1134; see note in head margin of f. 166v). Of the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 166v-171v

14. Add MS 9599, ff 183v-185r

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Add MS 9599, ff 183v-185r
Title:
Bāb fī dhikr al-burūj al-muttafiqah fī al-maṭāliʻ wa-al-burūj al-muqtadirah باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج المقتدرة
Scope & Content:
Short, perhaps fragmentary, astrological text on the qualities of the signs of the zodiac. The text begins abruptly, without basmala, after the defective end of the previous text but does not appear to continue it. 　 Begins (f. 183v, lines 12-15): باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 183v-185r

15. Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v

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Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v
Title:
al-Durrah al-nūrānīyah fī istikhrāj yawāqīt al-qaṣīdah al-Buṣīrīyah الدرة النورانية في استخراج يواقيت القصيدة البصيرية Anṭākī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm أنطاكي، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise in eighteen chapters (باب) written in 760/1358-9 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī al-Anṭākī (أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم بن إدريس بن يعقوب اليعقوبي الأنطاكي, see ff. 204r, lines 2-3 and 204v, lines 11-12) on interpreting the portents of celestial and meteoro...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 204r-227v

16. Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v

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Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v
Title:
al-Risālah fī aḥkām al-nujūmīyah min kitāb shaykh Dāwud الرسالة في أحكام النجومية من كتاب شيخ داود Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:
Discussion of astrological judgements (أحكام) with reference to medicine extracted from the fourth chapter (الباب الرابع) of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajab al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب العجاب; see Dāwūd ibn ʻUmar al-Anṭākī, Tadhkirat ūlī al-a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Rabīʻ II 1222
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Ff. 239v-254v

17. Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r

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Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r
Title:
Commentary on al-Urjūzah fī aḥkām al-nujūm (أرجوزة في أحكام النجوم) by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl (علي ابن أبي الرجال) Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ابن القنفذ، أحمد ابن حسين
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Commentary by the scholar and judge (قاضي) of Constantine (قسنطينة, in mod. Algeria) Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb (أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب, d. 1407), known as Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) on the Didactic Poem on Astrological Judgments (أرجوزة في أحكام النجو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabīʻ II 1222
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Ff. 255r-312r

18. Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v

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Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v
Title:
Astrological fragments
Scope & Content:
Collection of fragments on astrology taken from one or more texts. There are many rubrications, some of which seem to indicate section breaks. The following divisions in the text are clearly marked as such by the use of relevant terminology: (1) Chapter of the division and states of the stars (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 313r-321v

19. Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r

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Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r
Title:
[al-Ishārah ilá ʻilm fasād aḥkām al-nujūm الإشارة إلى علم فساد أحكام النجوم] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Polemical treatise attacking the false premises of astrology, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm (رسالة في إبطال أحكام النجوم, ff...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
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Ff. 106v-118r

20. Add MS 27261, ff 372v-542v

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Add MS 27261, ff 372v-542v
Title:
Rawz̤at al-Munajjimīn روضة المنجمين
Scope & Content:
An extensive treatise on astrology, in fifteen Maqālahs Decorations: Marginal: Folios 406r - 409v: Marginal drawings of flowers and birds. Diagram: Folio 410r: Diagrams of eclipses of the sun and moon (borders). Marginal: Folio 533v: Marginal drawing of a horseman, angel and a man killing a dra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
From Jumāda I, 813 to Jumāda II, 814
Extent:
1 text