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TEXT

al-Madkhal al-ṣaghīr

Title (arabic)

المدخل الصغير
Title (translit)

al-Madkhal al-ṣaghīr
Author

Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astrology
ismi_id

55747

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
al-Madkhal al-ṣaghīr_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_K (falak wa-riyāḍa)_8527
al-Madkhal al-ṣaghīr_London_British Library_Add._7490
al-Madkhal al-ṣaghīr_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2696

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 44 (no. 88), A3.

Maʿshar, Abū. 1994. “Abū Maʿshar’s The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology. Together With the Medieval Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath”. Eds. Charles Burnett, Keiji Yamamoto, and Michio Yano. Leiden: E. J. Brill.