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9 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Theurgy, Islamic magic, Astronomy, and Astrology

MS. Arab. e. 153

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Title

9 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Theurgy, Islamic magic, Astronomy, and Astrology

Shelfmark

MS. Arab. e. 153

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 28-32 Author: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, d. 1225 Title: Shams al-maʻārif wa-latāʼif al-ʻawārif
2. ff. 34v-39v Author: Tarīkī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī. Title: Risālah ʻalá al-zāʼirjah al-Sabtīyah
3. ff. 40r-43r Author: *Ibn Zayn, Muḥammad Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj al-zāʼirjah
4. ff. 43v-45r Author: Anonymous Title: Ishrāq al-budūr ʻalá khafāyā al-ṣudūr
5. ff. 45v-47r Author: Anonymous Title: al-Qawl ʻalá al-ṭarīqat al-tasāʻīyah fī ʻilm al-zāʼirjat al-ḥarfīyah
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
7. ff. 49v-57v Author: Anonymous Title: Tashīl al-ʻibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-Yasārah
8. ff. 59v-69v Author: Anonymous Title: *Rubrics, jadāwil, of different kinds of astronomy.
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.

Form

codex

Physical extent

5 ff. 6 ff. 4 ff. 3 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 9 ff. 11 ff. 9 ff.

Subject

Astronomy

Islamic magic

Theurgy

Astronomy--Tables

Astrology

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  • *Ibn Zayn, Muḥammad
  • Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1256-ca. 1321

  • Tarīkī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī

  • Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, d. 1225

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