Mawālīd al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʼ / Abū Maʻshar al-Balkhī.
مواليد الرجال والنساء ابو معشر البلخي.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abū Maʻshar, -886.

Standardized Title:

Mawālīd al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʼ

مواليد الرجال والنساء http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2022020431

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Astrology, Arab.

Astrology.

Horoscopes.

Divination.

Genre:

Codices.

Manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Physical Description:

1 volume (70 leaves) : paper ; 222 x 164 mm

Other Title:

Hādhā kitāb ṭāliʻ al-mawālīd [sic] al-rijāl wa-al-nisā

Mawalid ar-rijal wa an-nisaʼ / Abu Maʼshar

هذا كتاب طالع المواليد [كذا] الرجال والنسا

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Manual on natal astrology and horoscopes, with minor marginalia in the main text (f. 1-57) and notes at the end of the volume on different paper added at a later date (f. 58-70).

Notes:

Ms. codex

Title from text (f. 57v); author attribution from later note (f. 58r).

Foliation: Paper, ii (20th century) + 70 + ii (20th century); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Layout: Written in 13 long lines (f. 1-57).

Script: Written by multiple hands.

Decoration: Significant words or phrases in red ink; magic symbols (for example, f. 37r, 39v, 44v, 57v, 58r).

Binding: Modern leather with gilt spine title, Type 3.

Origin: Main text (f. 1r-57v) written in A.H. 1241 (1825 or 1826, f. 57v); note among later additions dated A.H. 1268 (1851 or 1852, f. 66v).

Water damage with staining at most edges and some smudging of text; oxidation or worm damage on final leaves (f. 68-70); text at inner margin of first leaf obscured by a repair (f. 1r-1v).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1745.

OCLC:

938711554