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...
Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic
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Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic. Most of these are extracted from unknown sources, although the items on ff. 187v-188r and ff. 202v-203r mention Hermes (هرمس) and Dorotheus of Sidon (Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, ذوروثيوس, fl. AD 50-100) and t...
Fragment, defective at beginning and end, of a Persian text on poetry, possibly a commentary on the work of an early Persian poet. The fragment forms a separate codicoligical unit, coming from another manuscript not related to the rest of the folios in this volume in either format or content. A...
Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb كتاب استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
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One of only three recorded copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048) containing 122 diagrams, 7 tables and 1 space for a diagram or table left blank and marked بياض صح...
Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qānūn lil-Qurashī شرح كتاب القانون للقرشي Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
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Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (1210 or 1211-1288), on Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā's) Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). The volume contains the last page of Ibn al-Nafīs' commentary on Book 2 (on materia medica) and the commentary on Book 3 (on ...
