MS. Arab. e. 153 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 9 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Theurgy, Islamic magic, Astronomy, and Astrology
1. ff. 28-32
Author: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, d. 1225
Title: Shams al-maʻārif wa-latāʼif al-ʻawārif

[ch. 34 only: ʻilm al-zāʼ irjah wa-kayfīyat nisbihā ]

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 497
[K 252 (2)]
2. ff. 34v-39v
Author: Tarīkī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī.
Title: Risālah ʻalá al-zāʼirjah al-Sabtīyah

Explaining the use of al-Sabtīʼs zāʼirjah, (astronomical table)

Language(s): Arabic

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Supp. II Anhang, p. 1038
[K 252 (3)]
3. ff. 40r-43r
Author: *Ibn Zayn, Muḥammad
Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj al-zāʼirjah

*[Thought by K. to be perhaps identical with the Muḥammad Zayn commentator on the ʻAqīdah of Sanūsī (Brock. II, p. 325, commentary 14); this seems hopelessly far-fetched]

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[K 252 (4)]
4. ff. 43v-45r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ishrāq al-budūr ʻalá khafāyā al-ṣudūr

[on the zāʼirjah]

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[K 252 (5)]
5. ff. 45v-47r
Author: Anonymous
Title: al-Qawl ʻalá al-ṭarīqat al-tasāʻīyah fī ʻilm al-zāʼirjat al-ḥarfīyah
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[K 252 (6)]
6. ff. 47v, 48v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two short extracts on problems of astrology, the second said to be from a work entitled al-Tafhīm fī al-nujūm
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[K 252 (7)]
7. ff. 49v-57v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tashīl al-ʻibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-Yasārah

A supplement to al-Yasārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah by Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 255
[K. 252 (8)]
8. ff. 59v-69v
Author: Anonymous
Title: *Rubrics, jadāwil, of different kinds of astronomy.

*So K., but I am not clear what is meant

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astronomy
[K 252 (9)]
9. ff. 73v-81r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tables of the stars, giving rising, distance, direction, strength, etc., folld. by three notes referring to the tables.
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astronomy
[K 252 (10)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
5 ff. 6 ff. 4 ff. 3 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 9 ff. 11 ff. 9 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. ?18th cent. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. [c. 1590?]

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Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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