Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 637]

• Mathematics and Astronomy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 637 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 735 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

735.

637. Size 9^1/2 in. by 6^1/4 in.; foll. 205. Twenty-three lines in a page.

A work on Astrology, in eight books, entitled البارع فى احكام النجوم , by Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘ALÎ B. ABU’L-RIJÂL Shaibânî, the secretary (a Maghribî, who flourished in the earlier part of the fifth century). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 4; Cat. Mus. Brit. 623; Stewart, 104. An old Latin translation of this work, with the title ‘’Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel libri de judiciis astrorum,’’ was printed at Basil, 1551. Cf. Zeitschr. der Deutsch. morgenl. Ges. xviii. 155 sq.

It is preceded (foll. 1-4v.) by a detailed list of the contents, which begins:

يشتمل هذا الجزء على ثمانية اجزاء من الكتاب البارع فى احكام النجوم تاليف على ابن ابى الرجال الكاتب والذى فى الجزء الاوّل من هذا (sic) الاجزاء من جملة عدد الابواب ستّون بابًا.

After this the work commences as follows (fol. 4v.): بسم ... قال على بن ابى الرجال الشيبانى الكاتب الحمد لله الواحد القهّار العزيز الجبار الخ.

The first chapter (fol. 5) treats of the Signs of the Zodiac , فى صفة البروج .

Well written. Date, a Friday, A.H. 1122.

[Tippu.]