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Or 5591, ff 23v-50r
- Record Id:
- 040-003955397
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477110
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100132140705.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144149585.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 23v-50r
- Title:
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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:
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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 des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 7 [Leiden: Brill, 1979], p. 144, item 5) suggests that the material in this book might be attributable to Abū Maʻshar al-Balkhī (أبو معشر البلخي, d. 886) or Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī (أبو القاسم البلخي, fl. ca 900), both of whom appear subsequently in the present manuscript (see ff. 162r-184v and 211v).
This text is numbered 4 (د) in the present collection.
Begins (f. 23v, lines 7-10):
القرانات في برج الحمل المشتري
يقارن زحل يدل على قتل ملك عظيم
وسوء سير الملوك مع كثرة القحط وقله
الزرع...
Ends (f. 50r, lines 13 and edge margin)
القمر ن ه يدل على مطر ورطوبات وعلى غزو بالشام وكثرة
المياه في الأنهار وكثرة الطير والسمك والله أعلم وأحكم تم بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477110
040-003955397 - Is part of:
- Or 5591 : Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
Or 5591, ff 23v-50r : Kitāb al-dalālāt ʻalá al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar wa-ashrāfihā… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003477110[0005]/040-003955397
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 5591
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 23v-50r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100144149585.0x000005
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1462
- End Date:
- 1463
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Finding Aids:
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Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 38
- Publications:
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Study:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 7 (Leiden: Brill, 1979), p. 144, item 5
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)