The astrological history of Māshāʼallāh /

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Main Author: Kennedy, E. S. (Edward Stewart), 1912-2009
Corporate Author: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Other Authors: Pingree, David, 1933-2005, Māshāʼallāh, 730?-815?
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971.
Series:Harvard monographs in the history of science.
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Item Description: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 quyām al-khulataʼ.--Māshāʼallah's Kitāb al-mawālīd.--Additional horoscopes of Māshāʼallah.--A note on the Flood date, and five horoscopes from an Erfurt MS.--Another note on the Flood date.
Physical Description:xiv, 206 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0674050258