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TEXT

al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm

Title (arabic)

المدخل الكبير إلى علم أحكام النجوم
Title (translit)

al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm
Alias

Madkhal ʿilm al-nujūm
Kitāb fī ʿulūm al-nujūm
Author

Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astrology
ismi_id

270572

Manuscript Witnesses

7 witnesses:
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Istanbul_Köprülü Library_NONE (Köprülü)_344
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Jerusalem_Jerusalem National and Univ. Library_UNKNOWN (Jerusalem)_145
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Mashhad_Mashhad University_unknown (Mashhad)_5382
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Mashhad_Mashhad University_unknown (Mashhad)_5620
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 307
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Tehran_Mahdawi (Library of Dr. Asghar Mahdawi)_Mahdawi_482
al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm_Tehran_Muʿtamid (Library of Mahmud Farhad Muʿtamid)_NONE_213

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), A2, A4.

Maʿshar, Abū. 1995. Liber Introductorii Maioris Ad Scientiam Judiciorum Astrorum (Kitāb Al-Madkhal Al-kabîr Ilā ʿilm aḥkām Al-nujūm) of Abū Maʿshar. Ed. Richard Lemay. 9 vol. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale.