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Faṣl fī aḥwāl al-ʻiqdatayn wa-ḥulūlihā (!) fī al-burūj al-ithnā ʻashr فصل في أحوال العقدتين وحلولها في البروج الاثنى عشر
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Section on astrological judgments on the basis of the arrival of the two lunar nodes (العقدتين), 'the head' (الرأس) or ascending node and 'the tail' (الذنب) or descending node, in each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. This text is not given a number in the present collection, and is followed ...
Faṣl fī maʻrifat al-kawākib wa-mā lahum min al-aqālīm wa-min al-buldān فصل في معرفة الكواكب وما لهم من الأقاليم ومن البلدان
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Section on the associations between the seven planets and the seven geographical climes, classes of people, plants, animals and objects. This text is numbered 9 (ط) in the present collection. Begins (f. 113v, lines 2-3): ... زحل له الإقليم الأول وله من البلدان السند والهند والحبش وسودان ا...
Bāb fī maʻrifat dalālāt al-burūj ʻalá al-buldān wa-ghayrihāباب في معرفة دلالات البروج على البلدان وغيرها
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Chapter on associations between the twelve signs of the zodiac and countries, classes of people, plants, animals and objects. This text is numbered 10 (ي) in the present collection. Begins (f. 116r, lines 10-12): ... برج الحمل له العراق وفارس وأذربيجان وألمان وبرطانية والجلالقة وبلاد الأ...
Faṣl naẓar al-kawākib li-l-shams waqt ḥulūlihā awāʼil al-fuṣul al-arbaʻahفصل نظر الكواكب للشمس وقت حلولها أوائل الفصول الأربعة
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Instructions for making astrological judgements based on the planets aspecting the Sun at the equinoxes and solstices. This text is numbered 11 (يا) in the present collection. A horoscope diagram is drawn in the lower gutter margin of f. 121v. Begins (f. 120v, lines 7-11): ... إن نظرها زح...
Bāb fī ḥulūl al-kawākib fī al-buyūt al-ithná ʻashr باب في حلول الكواكب في البيوت الاثنى عشر
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Chapter on astrological judgments based on the arrival of the planets in the twelve places (بيوت) on the ecliptic. This text is numbered 12 (يب) in the present collection. Contents: Section discussing the arrival of Saturn in the twelve places (ff. 122r-125r); Section discussing the arrival...
Two chapters on astrological judgments by eclipses
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Two chapters on making astrological judgments on the basis of solar eclipses. This text is numbered 13 (يج) in the present collection. Contents: Chapter in which judgment by eclipse of the Sun is discussed (باب يذكر فيه الحكم على كسوف الشمس, ff. 136r-148v); Chapter in which the indications...
Bāb yudhkaru fīhi al-ḥukm ʻalá al-khusūf al-qamar fī jihat lawnihi fī wasaṭ al-kusūf باب يذكر فيه الحكم على خسوف القمر في جهة لونه في وسط الكسوف
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A short chapter divided into three parts on making judgements based on lunar eclipses. The final word of the title كسوف ('solar eclipse') is almost certainly an error for خسوف ('lunar eclipse'). This text is numbered 14 (يد) in the present collection. Contents: Section discussing of its colour...
Faṣl fī dhikr dalālāt dhāt al-dhawāʼib ʻalá raʼī Baṭlīmūs wa-l-hind فصل في ذكر دلالات ذات الذوائب على رأي بطليموس والهند
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Chapter on making astrological judgments based on comets allegedly drawn from the works of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, here بطليموس, Claudius Ptolemaeus, d. ca AD 168) and Indian sources. This text is numbered 15 (يه) in the present collection. Begins (f. 154r, lines 2-5): ... قالو (!) إذا ظهر في بر...
A collection of astrological judgments and other extracts each introduced with the word نكثه (= نكتة). The same incorrect pointing of this word (ث instead of ت) is found on the contents page (f. 2v), where this section of the text is referred to as 'wise sayings and excerpts' (نكث واختيارات). A...
Excerpts from the Kitāb al-madkhal fī ʻilm al-nujūm (المدخل في علم النجوم) Balkhī, Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad بلخي، نور الدين أبو القاسم علي بن أحمد
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Excerpts from The Introduction to the Science of the Stars (المدخل في علم النجوم) by Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī (نور الدين أبو القاسم علي بن أحمد البلخي, fl. ca 900). The source of the excerpts is identified at f. 162r, line 1 ('from al-Balkhī's Book of the Introduction', م...
