The astrological historey of Māshāʼallāh / E.S. Kennedy and David Pingree.

  • Kennedy, E. S. (Edward Stewart), 1912-2009.
Date:
1971
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971.

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xiv, 206 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes Arabic text and English translation of fragments of a work by Māshāʼallāh, presumably his [Kitāb al-qirānāt wa-al-adyān wa-al-milal] as preserved in Ibn Hibintā's [al-Mughnī fī al-nujūm]. The text is reproduced in facsimile from Arabic MS. no. 852, leaves 214v to 233v, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Appendices (p. 127-193):--Māshāʼallāh's Date of prophet's birth.--Māshāʼallāh's Fi qiyām al-khulafāʼ.--Māshāʼallāh's Kitāb al-mawālīd.--Additional horoscopes of Māshāʼallāh.--A note on the Flood date, and five horoscopes from an Erfurt MS.--Another note on the Flood date.

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  • 0674050258