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Summary of Contents: Collection of works on occult sciences with the general title Maqālāt mukhtāra min kalām al-ḥukamāʾ wa-al-fuḍalāʾ مقالات مخترة من الحكماء والفضلاء given in f. 107b.
1. ff. 2b-5b
Author: anonymous
Title: Astronomical tables

Language(s): Turkish
2. ff. 5b-71b
Title: Nujūm-i Bukhārī
Title: نجوم بخاري
Title: Treatise on ʿilm al-ramal

Language(s): Arabic, Turkish
3. 74a-92b
Author: anonymous
Title: Indexes and tables of the 16 celestial position (al-buyūt al-sittah ʿashara)

Language(s): Arabic
4. ff. 97b-101b
Author: anonymous
Title: Istructions given by Aristotle to Alexander on the way of knowing what will befall in a battle trough the value of the letters of the names

Language(s): Arabic
5. ff. 101a-107b
Title: Judūl ʿilm umūr al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʾ
Title: جدول علم امور الرجال والنساء
Title: Knowledge of what befalls to men and women through calculations involving the letters of their names

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: other
Extent: 108 f.
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Layout

Hand(s)

Naskh, black ink

Binding

Original binding in leather with flap; gold decoration in a central lobe and corners.

Condition

Bad condition

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from O. Reser by the managers of the Browne Fund E.G. Browne,1862-1926.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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